In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

Co-Presented with The Northwest Film Center

Feb. 21 - 6:15 pm

$10

Northwest Film Center Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Ave

From "A Preface to Red" by Jonathan Schwartz

From "A Preface to Red"

From "By foot-candlelight"

From "In the Absence of Light Darkness Prevails"

From "Sea Series #10"

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About This Screening

For the 2012 Portland International Film Festival, Cinema Project brings a program of international short film and video that thoughtfully ponders the themes of transition and darkness. In this program, we travel across seemingly disparate places by way of aesthetic association—color, sound, and texture—with works like Jonathan Scwartz's A Preface to Red, that moves from one continent to another via tunnels and visions of bright colored toys and bright white sneakers, or Sylvia Schedelbauer's Sounding Glass that brings a flood of impressions through structurally rhythmic waves of images and sound. There is also a bit of time travel, as in Ben Rivers' latest film Sack Barrow, which presents a portrait in rhythm and surface of a vanishing London-suburb plating factory established in 1931 for limbless and disabled war veterans.

Program Details

February 21

A Preface to Red
by Jonathan Schwartz
Turkey/USA, 2011, 16mm, color, sound, 6 min.
By foot-candlelight
by Mary Helena Clark
USA, 2011, video, color, sound, 9 min.
In the Absence of Light Darkness Prevails
by Fern Silva
USA, 2010, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min.
Sounding Glass
by Sylvia Schedelbauer
Germany, 2010, video, b&w, sound, 10 min.
Sack Barrow
by Ben Rivers
UK, 2011, 16mm, color, sound, 21 min.
Sea Series #10
by John Price
Canada, 2011, 35mm, color, silent, 10 min.