5:00 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Thank You For Supporting The Arts

USA / PG-13

Dir: W. Alexander Jones & Carolann Stoney

The thought provoking documentary Thank You For Supporting The Arts follows a popular Oregon artist who uses her talent for stage performance, writing, and music to bring a revolution to the stages of strip clubs.

But, will her irrepressible bravery and intelligence prepare her for the sacrifices that she must endure?

5:00 PM -

La La La La

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

La La La La features five residents, who live in a care home for people with dementia. Many hours of interviews and recordings have been collaged together to present multiple narratives simultaneously. Fragmentation, overlapping: a conflux of information visually and aurally collide in this work.

La La La La is a Wellcome Trust funded collaboration with the NHS psychiatrist and leading Dementia specialist, Professor Julian Hughes, University of Bristol, RICE Professor of Old Age Psychiatry.

La La La La in many ways is an experimental portrait of living with Dementia, featuring residents living in a care home in North Shields, people with moderate and severe Dementia. The production of the film itself is a result of a scientific study exploring Citizenship and Authenticity with people suffering from dementia and within residential care homes.

Screens with ....Thank You For Supporting The Arts.

6:30 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Little Pictures

USA / PG

Dir: Vitaliy Perunov

SHORTS PROGRAM 19A

A young girl affected by her father's death at a young age, creates a new reality in which her father dies peacefully. This event pushes her to be a successful psychologist and public speaker that helps others free themselves from past emotional patterns through her own personal experience.

6:30 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Always

USA / PG

Dir: Angela DiMarco

SHORTS PROGRAM 19A

This drama is about a mother’s strength trying to overcome the agony of death.

After losing their child, Marie and Scott, walk very separate paths of grief. Marie shuts herself off from the outside world and her own husband. Scott struggles trying to be a good partner and on how to move forward after such a heart breaking loss. The couple will have to step into their fears to finally come back to one another.

The film is dedicated the Director's child, Caleb, who we lost December 30th, 2016. Always is about the challenges of loss, faith and love.

6:30 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Wind Chimes

USA / PG

Dir: Martin Hilligoss

SHORTS PROGRAM 19A

A young man struggles with depression and loss while investigating a dark presence in his backyard. Underneath the darkness is something both sinister and compassionate, compelling him to try and make sense of what it is. His nightmares present his fears and pave the way for his own reality and search for what he needs. In his most melancholic days he is drawn to what it may have to offer for his faith, as well as his grandmother’s.

7:30 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Red White & Black - The Oregon Wine Story

USA / PG

Dir: Jerry Bell Jr

Red, White, and Black highlights the lives of minority winemakers who have begun changing the face of Oregon’s winemaking culture.

This documentary delves into the challenges and accomplishments of winemakers of color and the LGBTQ community who have traditionally been excluded from the predominantly white, high brow industry. This is a story about entrepreneurs of different backgrounds who have removed barriers in pursuit of their dreams thereby closing the narrow opportunity gap.

Despite the gravity of Red, White, and Black’s content, this documentary delivers with an upbeat tone, a cadence of storytelling and camera work that helps to uplift the consciousness of its viewers, its wine drinkers, and dreamers alike.

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman is a special program of short films by visual artist and filmmaker Jordan Baseman, that was curated specifically by the artist for the Oregon Independent Film Festival's 2018 program.

These challenging and experimental shorts combine elements of biography, documentary, portraiture,non-fiction, surrealism, and narrative filmmaking to showcase oral histories, first person spoken-word narratives, field recordings and other recorded interviews and soundscapes.

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman
Nobody Likes Us But We Don’t Care [2014]
Blackout [2016]
The Last Walk [2011]
Veil [2015]
A Cold Hand on a Cold Day [2013]
DisObey [2017]
Little Boy [2014-16]

*For descriptions of each film, please see listings below*
*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Nobody Likes Us But We Don’t Care

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

1 - Nobody Likes Us But We Don’t Care

This short film features (possibly) the only heavy metal band in Azerbaijan: SiRR. Sounding like a combination between traditional, ancient Azeri (Mugham) folk music and classic Western Heavy Metal (Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Skid Row, Deep Purple, Scorpions). SiRR only play original music.

No one listens to SiRR. Although they have virtually no audience, SiRR create and play their music: honing their original sound. Their families, neighbors and friends don't understand what they do or who they are.

Living within a predominantly Muslim culture, in a secular but very conservative democracy, SiRR persevere despite the odds. True artists, doing what they do - making their music for themselves first and for the world second. No one else is listening. Yet...

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Blackout

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

2 - Blackout

Blackout is a film about time: specifically, the loss of time as experienced by a recently sober, 23 year-old woman. The anonymous narrator of the film discusses her history of experiencing blackouts through drinking; covering a five-year time period that culminated in an entire three-day time-loss, her last bender.

The narrative is open, stark and direct: a dark insight, flecked with humor.

Visually, the work stutters through black moments, punctuated by originally recorded, hand-processed 16mm color film, deploying multiple exposure and other in- camera, experimental techniques. Conventional representational images bookend the work, acting to highlight the more abstract and imagined interior spaces of the mind with the representational images indicating exterior realities.

The combination of materials creates a visual upheaval and disjuncture that echoes the content of the narrative.

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

The Last Walk

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

3 - The Last Walk

The Last Walk features the British performance artist Stuart Brisley. What starts off as an ordinary walk in the park for Stuart and his dog, soon becomes a horrifying account of the witnessing of a public suicide.

The Last Walk is visually driven by hand-processed 16mm film that depicts a fragment of reflected light in Christmas-lit, winter trees.

The recorded material was hand-processed (using buckets) and then professionally digitized. As the surface of the emulsion on the negative was intentionally physically punctured, torn and damaged through this most basic of developing processes, the resulting film is flecked with scratches and streaked with black scars: holes where images used to be.

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Veil

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

4 - Veil

Veil is a film about sex, religion, guilt, ecstasy, free-will, cinematic pornography and love.

We hear Dr. Trish Lyons describe her relationship with masturbation, organized religion, and the presence of the cinematic. We watch an abstract, evolving and fluid set of images pass before us: in scarlet red.

Veil is a poetic, experimental expression/exploration of sexual identity.

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

A Cold Hand on a Cold Day

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

5 - A Cold Hand on a Cold Day

A Cold Hand on a Cold Day features Funeral Director, Cara Mair as she describes her relationship with embalming and the traditional methods of body preparation that led to her eventual rejection of conventional funeral practices towards a more expansive approach to funeral making.

In a culture that generalizes and industrializes the process of preparing the dead for burial, Cara’s methods are politically radical in prioritizing a non-commercialized, individually created manner of responding to the death of a loved one.

Visually, the film is driven by hand-processed color 16mm time-lapse images of deeply-dark skies. In this film process, narrative, abstraction and nature collide in asking open questions about death.

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

DisObey

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

6 - DisObey

The focus of this film attempts to expand (and contract) definitions and interpretations of The Law.

Exploring thinking around human rights, politics, activism, terrorism, youth crime and prevention, anti-social behavior, crime and deviance, social inclusion/exclusion, participation and representation, etc.

DisObey features Jason Warr, a criminologist from the University of Lincoln. Jason’s heavily edited narration discusses the nature of free will, individual and collective social responsibility within the construct of our current legal system. With a recognition that we need to radically change our thinking and our behavior in order to create a society that is truly fair and just for all. Jason also discusses his personal relationship with the Law as someone who has served 12 years in prison for manslaughter:

Jason was imprisoned at the age of 17.

Visually, the work is driven by archive news footage (never broadcast) of National Front Youth Marches/Anti-Fascist Marches that occurred across Central England throughout the 1970s/1980s. Originally recorded abstract 16mm film material creates a striking contrast to the archive materials.

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*

9:15 PM - Wednesday, Sept 19^th 2018

Little Boy

United Kingdom / PG-13

Dir: Jordan Baseman

Blackout: 7 Films by Jordan Baseman

7 - Little Boy

Little Boy, takes its name from the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay at 8:15 AM on August the 6th 1945.

Little Boy, is an abstract, stop-frame animation of the sky, recorded on a clear morning in Hiroshima, Japan (near the detonation site of the first atomic bomb: now the location of the Hiroshima Peace Museum designed by Kenzo Tange).

The raw visual material for this film was hand-processed, using rudimentary techniques. The result of this basic process depicts a perfectly blue sky that appears to be raining debris. Black holes and fragments of color fall before us, creating an additional visual cinematic space: beyond the blue sky.

*One admission is valid for all films in this program*