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.