UNORTHODOX DOCS
Non-fiction arts that play with the boundaries of form, function, style & story.
TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
- Thu, May 7
Run Time: 105 min.
Tickets FREE! A biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment.
The Python Hunt
- Sat, May 16
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. A wild, visually striking documentary set in the Florida Everglades, where a government-sanctioned python removal contest draws a cast of competitors with larger-than-life personalities.
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story // screening followed by a Q&A with Maria Bamford and director Neil Berkeley
- 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 between CUA-honoree Maria Bamford and film director Neil Berkeley!
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
- 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.