UNORTHODOX DOCS
Non-fiction arts that play with the boundaries of form, function, style & story.
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story // screening followed by a Q&A with Maria Bamford
- Sat, May 30
Run Time: 150 min.
Tickets $15. We are beyond thrilled to share a sneak peek of the much-anticipated new documentary about one of comedy’s most singular voices: Maria Bamford. The screening will be followed by a conversation with CUA-honoree Maria Bamford!
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
- Sun, Jun 7
Run Time: 89 min.
Tickets $15. Dive into the strange and visionary world of Dr. John C. Lilly–scientist, mystic, and pioneer of consciousness exploration.
Space: A Meditation on the Meaning of Art
- Fri, Jun 12
Run Time: 150 min.
Tickets $15. The Portland premiere screening of a new documentary film directed by David Poulshock with a live musical performance by Big Vibe and exhibition of beloved painter and scene designer Tim Stapleton's larger-than-life hexaptych Coal Miners.
Seeds // A Juneteenth Evening Curated by Kalimah Abioto
- Fri, Jun 19
Run Time: 123 min.
Tickets $15. Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, Seeds is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and owning land.
Ghost in the Machine: Protecting Human Creativity in the Age of AI
- Sat, Jun 20
Run Time: 140 min.
Tickets $15. Coming off its electrifying Sundance screening, the latest documentary from Valerie Veatch is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life.
ASCO: Without Permission
- Fri, Jun 26
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. From executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna comes a genre-defying film that profiles the extraordinary, Los Angeles-based, Chicano art group of the 1970s-80s, ASCO.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World x QDoc
- Sat, Jul 11
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, her life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it.
Give Me the Ball! x Portland Arts Week
- Sun, Jul 26
Run Time: 101 min.
Tickets $15. World champion tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King has had a game-changing impact on culture and sports. Rare archive and candid interviews with Billie Jean and those closest to her reveal how one woman put changing the world ahead of saving herself.
Cookie Queens
- Sun, Sep 13
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.