Oregon Movies, A to Z

From Treeverse (2011) directed by John Waller

Cinema Project partners with the 35th Portland International Film Festival this year to bring a full program of short films by Oregon directors.

This is the really fast way to see ten films by nine directors.

From the PIFF website.

SHORT CUTS VI: MADE IN OREGON

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67 Minutes

DEVICE
DIRECTOR: Lawrence Johnson -
A middle-aged man and his young female student take an awkward trip through America’s Southwest. (7 mins.)

LANDSCAPE WITH DUCK
DIRECTOR: Patrick Neary -
A wayward duck tries to catch up with his companions on their migration south in this hand-drawn animated short. (4 mins.)

ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE
DIRECTOR: Brian Libby -
This catchy edit of the filmmakers’ home movies and astronomic images compares the concepts of birth and arrival. (4 mins.)

MOSSGROVE/BED OF MOSS
DIRECTOR: Kurtis Hough -
Hough slugs it out in the forested Northwest in this memorable diptych. (10 mins.)

DEAR PETER, GOATS
DIRECTOR: Orland Nutt -
Nutt successfully documents the normal goats of Glacier National Park for his friend, the unreliable videographer Peter. (2 mins.)

DEAR PETER, YAKS
DIRECTOR: Orland Nutt -
In this video letter to Peter, filmmaker Nutt confesses that yaks confuse him and ice should fear him. (2 mins.)

SHINE
DIRECTOR: Jesse Blanchard -
Members of a barbershop quartet fear their moment out of the spotlight. (3 mins.)

SALTY
DIRECTOR: Malia Jensen -
Possibly hilarious, possibly erotic (depending on your sexual and comedic fetishes) art converges with behavioral science when cattle find an anatomically correct salt lick in their pasture. (13 mins.)

TREEVERSE
DIRECTOR: John Waller -
Two arborists spend five days traversing the canopy of a grove of Oregon white oaks. (15 mins.)

271
DIRECTOR: Spencer Alexander -
A dumpster diver (Andy Copeland) has no difficulty holding up both ends of a conversation with his new friend in Oregon’s “Best Picture” winner of the 2011 48-Hour Film Project. (7 mins.)