Werner Nekes (1944 – 2017) is one of the key figures of German avant-garde cinema. In the mid-1960s, he traded the visual arts for a 16mm camera and began experimenting with both the filming and editing process.
Best known for his long tenure as film critic for the Chicago Reader, Fred Camper’s work as a filmmaker has gone largely unseen until very recently. Suicide Note is Camper’s sole feature-length film, and though it was completed in 1984, it screened publicly only three times, at galleries and microcinemas on super-8 workprints. Recently restored on 16mm by the Chicago Film Society, the film received a proper premiere earlier in October at the New York Film Festival, and we are excited to bring it to Portland!
Centring on films working with everyday textiles of domesticity, this selection has a preoccupation with the small gauge, the minor gesture. Mass-produced materials including linen, lace, yarn, and Letratone are used as formal tools for thinking about cinema.
A lone figure rises from a blue tarp, coiled in cables spilling out from a totemic server rack. bit_girlchronicles the escape patterns of Ada, a girl born from glitch, who weaves a web of live feedback loops generated by linked video systems.
Dates:
Tuesday, January 26, 2027 - 19:30 to Saturday, January 30, 2027 - 19:30
The FIAV (Casablanca International Video Art Festival) will take place from November 10 to 14, 2026. As it does every year, the event is organized by Hassan II University, the Ben M’Sik Faculty of Letters and Humanities, and the French Institute of Casablanca in Morocco. The curator of this 32nd edition, artist and videographer Mohamed Thara, presents a selection of internationally renowned artists with a collection of 10 films that will be exhibited at the new Museum of Photography and Visual Arts in Casablanca.
Dates:
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 (All day) to Saturday, November 14, 2026 (All day)
Avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers has been on a 60-year search for cinematic form. Following the timeline of his own filmmaking, Beavers will discuss technique and his many lauded experiments with 16mm and 35mm filmmaking. His talk will include rare excerpts and fragments of selected films that span his career, starting in 1966 with work inspired by the New American Cinema and related artists—including Gregrory J.Markopoulos, with whom Beavers moved to Greece in 1967.
Boston-based filmmaker and former Harvard Film Archive curator John Gianvito had made a few films before the 20th century became the 21st, but he would wind up emerging as one of the definitive filmmakers of the current century during its first decade. His six years of work on Gulf War I cri de cœur The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein wound up serving as one of the definitive commentaries on the upcoming century when it premiered in 2001.
A rare encounter with a singular voice in artisanal film practice, this programme highlights Saïto’s skill in bridging metaphysical concepts with sensory experience.
Programme 1 : Films by Luke Fowler A selection of films by the filmmaker. 16mm projection ! Doors: 7:00 p.m. | Screening: 7:30 p.m. Luke Fowler in attendance
Programme 2 : Carte Blanche to Luke Fowler Doors: 7:00 p.m. | Screening: 7:30 p.m. Luke Fowler in attendance --
