Tickets $15. Songwriter/artist Allee Willis, best known for writing the “Friends” theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit “September,” and “The Color Purple” musical, began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling with not fitting established gender and sexual norms…until she found a path to love.
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Tickets $15. Join us for a self-care moment, hosted by Portland’s wellness experts at woo-woo.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC // Hosted by Music Millennium
Posted on September 11, 2024
Tickets $15. In collaboration with Music Millennium, we’re thrilled to share a rare screening of the much anticipated non-documentary, We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC! Come early for a DJ set by Jerry A (of Poison Idea). Created to commemorate the 20 years that have passed since DC-based post-hardcore band Fugazi’s last live appearance (November 4, 2002, at The Forum in London), We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C. is a 96-minute movie comprising crowd-sourced, fan-recorded live shows, and rare archive footage of Fugazi.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] CARTE BLANCHE: A Conversation with Kirsten Johnson + Dick Johnson Is Dead // FREE
Posted on July 31, 2024
Tickets FREE. We’re thrilled to host award-winning cinematographer and director Kirsten Johnson in conversation with Amy Dotson. A truly innovative storyteller, Johnson’s work grapples with the meaning behind making images. Renowned for her irreverent, unorthodox & fun approach to cinematography, Johnson has redefined visual storytelling. Her fabulous style and engaging way of interacting with subjects translate to the stage; it will surely be a conversation that sticks with you. The 60 minute conversation will follow the screening of Dick Johnson Is Dead, a joyful and heartbreaking documentary about Johnson’s father entering dementia.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] 1-800-On-Her-Own w/ Ani DiFranco & Dana Flor // CARTE BLANCHE
Posted on July 22, 2024
Tickets $45. Join us for the much-anticipated Ani DiFranco documentary, 1-800-On-Her-Own! Following the film, Ani DiFranco & director Dana Flor will be in conversation PAM CUT Director Amy Dotson, and take audience questions.
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Tickets $25. In collaboration with XRAY.FM, we’re thrilled to host a screening of The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary. The Elephant 6 music screen grew out of small southern towns (Ruston, LA. and Athens, GA) and fostered bands including Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, and The Apples In Stereo.
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Tickets $35. Join us for a conversation with filmmaking legend Penelope Spheeris, moderated by PAM CUT Executive Director Amy Dotson.
After the conversation, we’re thrilled to host a rare screening of her film We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll which documents the most successful rock-concert festival tour of the 1990s: Ozzfest.
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Tickets $15. Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism. Confessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?
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Tickets $15. When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
After the film, there will be a Q&A with Lisa Freeman, who served in the US Aid Office of Transition Initiatives, working on building resilience in local communities in the face of the Taliban threat.
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Tickets $15. The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Before the film the Gents of Chaos will play some retro-groove musical morsels.
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