We are thrilled to have been selected by RACC to receive a project grant to support a new series, Screen/Off-Screen.
Cinema Project's mission is to present avant-garde moving-image work to Portland audiences. Often, however, there is a larger oeuvre of personal work by the artists we program that expands on their film and video. With our new project, “Screen/Off-Screen”, we want to capture this more comprehensive view by putting moving-image work in context with other visual art media, like performance, sound, and photography. Taking place in fall and spring of 2012, the project includes 3 unique programs. For each program, we’ll be teaming up with larger arts organizations like previous partners Cooley Gallery and PICA’s TBA festival.
Visit RACC's website, to learn about the project grant and this year's recipients.
Thank you RACC!
In March, Cinema Project's Jeremy Rossen and Heather Lane went to Boulder, Colorado for the 7th Annual Stan Brahkage Film Symposium. Programming for this event was orchestrated by three curators: Bill Nichols, Sally Berger, and our buddy Scott MacDonald. It was great to be in the sun, great to meet...
Textural Spaces: Architecture, Landscape, and Cinema is a thematic series of avant-garde film and video launching in April 2011. Its aim is to bring diverse and innovative people and programs to Portland to examine architectural and spatial experience within the cinematic context through a variety of frames. Expanding from the traditional film screening, these programs will include formal critical discussions and lectures with local and visiting professionals in a number of fields—from artists, architects, and critical thinkers, to historians, and writers. We hope to bring the Portland community and our audience into a larger discussion about space and art, how we use it, share it, explore it, and react to it. Landscape and architecture often define the historical, social, and political climate of a space, influencing society in tremendous ways. Our goal is to explore and discuss how the cinematic medium can be a vessel for thinking and learning about the world in which we live.
Cinema Project is in the midst of transition, as co-founder and projectionist Jeremy Rossen moves on to other coasts and creative pursuits later this fall. Having curated countless memorable programs and projected a vast array of amazing films throughout the past seven years, he’s definitely left his mark and will be greatly missed.
Kicking off the fall 2010 season is the epic 16mm dual-projection performance When it Was Blue from Jennifer Reeves and Skúli Sverrisson as part of our annual collaboration with PICA’s TBA Festival. Other programs include classics in the documentary and avant-garde genres, with the work of such luminaries as Robert Flaherty and Marie Menken respectively. Cinema Project co-founder Pablo de Ocampo guest curates a program of melodramatic video work and we've also got the latest from prolific German filmmaker Harun Farocki. International artists set to arrive in Portland this season include German filmmaker Jeanne Faust and Japanese artist Tomonari Nishikawa. Teaming up with North Portland gallery Disjecta, Nishikawa's program marks the last in our Pan Asian series. We are happy to announce recent grant awards from the Oregon Cultural Trust and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Thanks to these organizations, along with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, and all our sponsors for making this programming possible.
Click here to view the season schedule.
Cinema Project is excited to announce that this August we were awarded one of the 57 competitive Cultural Development Grants from the Oregon Cultural Trust. Cinema Project is honored to be among so many great institutions and organizations in Oregon. This support has allowed us to bring more...
