Oregon Movies, A to Z

Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff, collectively titled the “Oregon trilogy” by the curators of the 2012 Whitney Biennial, will screen continuously throughout one week of the exhibit, which runs from March 1 to May 27, 2012.

All three films are collaborations between screenwriter Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt did not conceive of them as an Oregon trilogy – she looked hard all over the country for the perfect location for Wendy and Lucy. When she found it, it happened to be right in Raymond’s North Portland neighborhood.

The other film artists included in the Biennial are Thom Andersen, Mike Kelley, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jerome Hiler, Nathaniel Dorksy, the late George Kuchar, Laura Poitras, Matt Porterfield, Michael Robinson, Frederick Wiseman, Luther Price, and Laida Lertxundi.