UNORTHODOX DOCS
Non-fiction arts that play with the boundaries of form, function, style & story.
Seeds // Juneteenth Night at the Theater 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.