Tickets $15. Join us after to the film for a moderated conversation between I Saw the TV Glow Director Jane Schoenbrun and PAM CUT Executive Director Amy Dotson. Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show—a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. AV Club writes that the second feature from director Schoenbrun (We’re All Going To The World’s Fair) is “a remarkable portrait of pop-culture obsession—how it can unite us, change us, and ripple down through our entire lives in ways both uplifting and unsettling.”
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Tickets $15. For International Women’s Day, The Future of Film is Female presents a screening of a Valley Girl, the 1983 woman-directed teen rom com featuring a killer soundtrack and Nic Cage in his first leading role.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] THE GREAT ESCAPE // Hundreds of Beavers with Jet Black Pearl
Posted on February 16, 2024
Tickets $15. In this 17th-century, supernatural silent winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating, yes, HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS.
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Tickets $15. Grab a slice of Atlas pizza pie from our concession stand, and join us for a celebration of pie & pi! We’ll screen Darren Aronofsky’s 1998 breakout feature, Pi. Prize for the person who can recite the longest string of 𝛑 (3.14159265359…….). Afterwards we’ll screen A24’s newly restored version of Darren Aronofsky’s 1998 breakout feature Pi.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE PRESENTS // Tokyo Pop w/ Low Bar Chorale
Posted on February 15, 2024
Tickets $15. For International Women’s Day, The Future of Film is Female presents a screening of a largely forgotten gem of ’80s American independent cinema by Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Tokyo Pop takes us on a breezy tour through bubble-era Tokyo, replete with tongue-in-cheek nods to the city’s American-influenced pop culture.
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FREE EVENT. Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system.
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Tickets $5. Come celebrate March Madness, not with basketball brackets, but by basking in the glorious shimmer of locally made music videos! Not only will your eyes and ears commingle in a pool of joyful ecstasy, but local comedians Lee H. Tillman, Kelly Thomas, and special guest emcee Michelle Kicherer of Banana Pitch will bring this event full circle with plenty of hearty laughs and an audience applause meter.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] ART HOUSE CINEMA // Showing Up & A Conversation with Cynthia Lahti
Posted on February 13, 2024
Tickets $15. Following the screening of Showing Up, sculptor and visual artist Cynthia Lahti will be in conversation about her work with Grace Kook-Anderson, Arlene & Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum. Cynthia’s drawings and sculptures are featured in the film Showing Up, moonlighting as fictional character Lizzy (Michelle Williams)’s artwork.
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Tickets $15. Zendaya & Timothée are cool, but have you seen David Lynch’s 1984 version of Dune, which Roger Ebert dubbed “the worst film of the year”? Come watch the original, and design your own sand art creation inspired by the golden terrain of Arrakis, the pinks and purples of a desert sky, and the cerulean blue of Spice users.
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Tickets $15. UNICORN WARS: For ages, teddy bears have been locked in an ancestral war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will complete the prophecy and usher in a new era. Aggressive, confident teddy bear Bluet and his sensitive, withdrawn brother Tubby could not be more different. As the rigors and humiliation of teddy bear bootcamp turn to the psychedelic horrors of a combat tour in the Magic Forest, their complicated history and increasingly strained relationship will come to determine the fate of the entire war.
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