5:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees

USA / PG

Dir: Wobbly Dance

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM 22A

Three mysterious beings concoct a botanical fugue among the trees, revealed through the peculiar landscapes of dancers/co-directors Yulia Arakelyan, Erik Ferguson and Grant Miller. Journey into the fantastical, dream-like and vibrant scenes of "Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees," directed by Wobbly Dance, in collaboration with cinematographer Ian Lucero and musicians Sweetmeat.

5:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Shells

Greece / PG

Dir: Vasilios Papaioannu

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM 22A

In this Award Winning experimental film from Oregon Independent Film Festival alumni Vasilios Papaioannu, we follow the story of a man, in the midst of a personal crisis, who seeks solace in an icy forest where an abandoned horse leads him into a road of multiform waves of color.

5:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

prime perfect

USA / G

Dir: Tom Bessoir

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM 22A

See and hear prime and perfect numbers in a mathematical flicker film dedicated to Tony Conrad (1940-2016)

The vast majority of the frames in this film are black. You will be sitting in the dark experiencing number patterns. The prime number frames (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, … 8,123) are white and the perfect number frames (6, 28, 496, and 8128) are red.

TO BE PLAYED LOUD!

5:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Unscathed

USA / PG

Dir: Joseph Pfister

Music: Sophia Pfister

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM 22A

Unscathed is a very personal music video documenting and lamenting the aimlessness and beauty of the Pfister siblings as they venture into adulthood. The first major collaboration between Joseph and Sophia Pfister, made permanent by a song, a video and a tattoo, created over four years.

5:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Thunder Head Clearing

USA / PG

Dir: John Teton

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM 22A

"Thunder Head Clearing" blends realistic fine arts drawings and fantastical 3D animation in a tale about a gathering of strangers drawn to a mysterious clearing in the woods, where a towering creation of light and power sweeps them up in an extraordinary series of events in an attempt to overcome a haunting global plague. Created by an international team of artists, the film was produced as a contribution to the campaign for the global International Food Security Treaty.

6:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

PERCEPTION: FROM PRISON TO PURPOSE

USA / R

Dir: JONATHAN REED

DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM 22B

After a drug deal gone wrong, shots were fired, and Noah Schultz was ultimately convicted of attempted aggravated murder. However, upon seeing a group of role models within the prison system taking the road less traveled, Noah decided to take major steps toward improving his life and preparing for his release. Seven and a half years later, he is released from the system a college graduate, published poet, non-profit founder, business owner, TEDx speaker, and so much more.

6:00 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Black Fortune - Part - 1: The Revenge

INDIA / R

Dir: Sushmit Biswas

DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM 22B

This documentary showcases the life of pirates, especially Edward Teach.

Black Fortune - Part - 1 : The Revenge takes the audience back to the early 17th Century, when Bloodshed and Violence was a way of life. Mighty empires ruled the Atlantic Ocean, controlled trade and paid their sailors meagre wages.

After the Queen Anne's War, many privateers who fought for the British were abandoned by their country. This triggered a struggle in the Bahamas, with both Privateers and Slaves wanting freedom from colonial rule. Some sailors who were paid poorly by their countries, also decided to join these men and women.

This conflict gave us some of the most dangerous people the world, has ever seen. The likes of Anne Bonny, Blackbeard, Calico Jack Rackham, Charles Vane, and up to the most notorious (and richest) high seas pirate ever, Barthelomeow Roberts, better known as Black Bart.

7:15 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

DETOX

USA / R

Dir: Richard Kilpatrick

HORROR/DRAMA PROGRAM 22C

Detox is a story of metamorphosis, where our protagonist faces internal and external forces of change, as he seizes an opportunity to towards redemption and a second chance at life.

This dramatic film tells the story of Chase, who is spiraling towards the bottom and willing to do anything to escape his tragic past. Abusing heroin, struggling to pay back his debts, Chase ends up running drugs across the state line for the cartel.

7:15 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Meeting

USA / PG-13

Dir: Nestor Valenzuela

HORROR/DRAMA PROGRAM 22C

A young man and his house guest talk about god while seeking privacy from listening walls. What are they hiding? And from whom?

Michelle Damis and Alexander Nickolas star in this dramatic film, written and directed by Nestor Valenzuela.

7:15 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Tic

USA / PG13

Dir: Kristen Stevens

HORROR/DRAMA PROGRAM 22C

Amira (played by Julia Quon) answers an online ad for a used crib and meets Gabi (Sabrina Chen-Louie), a kind woman with a tragic past, and soon she is stalked in the night by a mysterious sound in this horror film from director Kristen Stevens.

7:15 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Autopsy

USA / R

Dir: Adam Long

HORROR/DRAMA PROGRAM 22C

A young woman's friends gather to dissect what's wrong with her immature ex-boyfriend so that everyone, except possibly him, can move on in this horror-drama film.

8:30 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Side Effects May Include

USA / PG

Dir: Emily Laue

COMEDY PROGRAM 22D

This dark comedy film examines putting the need for money and success over ideals (and despite suspicious problems that also arise).

A struggling voice actor takes a new job doing pharmaceutical commercials despite having reservations about the content. The drug ads bring financial security but also come with unexpected side effects - as she begins to suffer from the symptoms she describes in the ads.

8:30 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Two Kates: Happy Birthday!

USA / PG

Dir: Zach Schultz

COMEDY PROGRAM 22D

What does an unsuccessful artist talk about with her parents?

A pair of clones try to figure it out in episode 4 of "Two Kates," a comedic web series about anxiety.

A comedic/dramatic portrait of a young woman learning to live with herself: "Two Kates" features a powerful dual-performance by Kate Knappett as both halves of the clone pair, along with a soundtrack comprised of great independent musicians from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

8:30 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Wishbone

USA / PG

Dir: Edward Derby

COMEDY PROGRAM 22D

In this Dramatic Comedy we find Sierra, a post-college book lover, looking for an affirmation of her whimsy through hiding postcards in a bookstore. The message the world sends back isn't what she expects in this OIFF Award Winning short film. Featuring Melanie Meijer as Sierra, and Taylor Roel Pedroza as Jack.

8:30 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Northwest Mini U-Store: No Hidden Fees!

USA / PG13

Dir: Michael Ward

COMEDY PROGRAM 22D

In this experimental comedy we find Kurt's commitment to offering low-cost storage solutions with no hidden fees is bringing him to the brink of madness. He soon finds himself caught up in a sinister plot that goes deeper than he could have ever imagined.

Also be sure to ask about truck rental and storage supplies!

8:30 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

Surviving Unemployment (making a commercial)

USA / PG

Dir: Janet Christensen Obrien

COMEDY PROGRAM 22D

A film of heartbreak and starting over … held together with comedy.

A mixed-up comedy/drama with bits of a documentary style in an investigation of unemployment and guardianship misconduct. The documentarian listens to relatives and surviving victims all while her "Commercial" is being filmed, edited and finished, ...creating a mixture of mush!

This complicated film addresses "the things we sometimes step in, (but don't want to talk about!)", while also managing to address the serious issues of Misconduct of Guardianship by Attorneys of Estates and the struggle within the bureaucracy of Surviving Unemployment.

9:30 PM - Friday, Sept 22^nd 2017

The Dead

USA / PG

Dir: Edward Martin III

The Dead is about how we affect others. It's about all the little and big changes that we make in the lives around us, sometimes through deliberate action, sometimes just by being ourselves.

These are confessions to the dead, admissions to the dead, thanks, castigations, everything. This is all the marks left in existence by one person. This is what truly remains. Not a body, or a will or a bit of dirt, but lives changed and altered.

This feature length experimental, dramatic/comedic film is the second of two films from director Edward Martin III in this years festival. The Dead also features actors Brandie Sylfae, Donald Wright, Kristin Barrett, and Brian Hutchins-Wright in an ensemble cast.