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Peter Hujar’s Day x Nationale Film Salon
- Thu, Feb 19
Run Time: 76 min.
Tickets $15. Join Nationale for a special movie night featuring Peter Hujar's Day. Nationale will be vending Peter Hujar's books and hosting a salon-style discussion after the film.
Will
Run Time: 73 min. Release Year: 1981
Tickets $15. In 1981, Jessie Maple became one of the first African American women to direct an independent film with this raw, unflinching portrait of heroin addiction and recovery. Shot on location in Harlem, Will stars Obaka Adedunyo as the title character, a former All-American basketball star who has fallen from grace because of his dependence on junk. Soon after Will promises his wife, Jean (Loretta Devine, in her screen debut), that he’ll go straight, he becomes a father figure to Little Brother (Robert Dean), a street-tough teen who appears to be following in Will’s footsteps. Restored from the 16mm camera negative and magnetic sound elements by the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA), the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Time-Based Media Archives and Conservation staff, and the Center for African American Media Arts.
Twice as Nice // Presented by Kalimah Abioto
- Sat, Feb 21
Run Time: 70 min.
Tickets $15. Presented by local writer, filmmaker, and musician Kalimah Abioto, Twice as Nice is the second film by Jessie Maple, a pioneering independent African American filmmaker.
Perfect Blue
- Sun, Feb 22
Run Time: 82 min. Language: Japanese
Tickets $15. Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Father Mother Sister Brother
- Fri, Feb 27
Run Time: 110 min.
Tickets $15. Jim Jarmusch's latest feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.
Altered Evening: The Pander Brothers’ indie thriller ALTERED EGO & Cross-Media Works
- Sat, Mar 28
Run Time: 140 min.
Tickets: $15. Join Portland-based filmmakers, comic artists, animators, writers, and visual artists, the Pander Brothers as they present their award-winning, Portland-based feature thriller Altered Ego along with an exciting and colorful selection of their cross-media films for graphic novels, and story-driven music videos.