Cinema Pacific Film Festival
Friday, April 20
Saturday, April 21
Sunday, April 22
Bijou Art Cinemas
THE HEAVENLY KINGS
Lawrence Hall 5 115
MEDIA MASHERS FORUM
Proctor 42, Knight Library 6
ONG KIMCHI
Bijou Art Cinemas
KANZEON
Proctor 41, Knight Library
APER TIGER TV
30TH ANNIVERSARY
PROGRAM
JSMA
ARTIST’S TALK: RUSSEL
WONG
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LOST LANDSCAPES OF
DETROIT
Bijou Art Cinemas
THE WELCOME
Bijou Art Cinemas
RINGING IN THEIR EARS
Bijou Art Cinemas
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
KAMITORI 9
SUSHI DINNER
CINEMA PACIFIC/JSMA
SPRING EXHIBITIONS
OPENING RECEPTION
Bijou Art Cinemas
A SIMPLE LIFE
ijou Art Cinemas
PORTLAND ANIMATION
NOW!
Bijou Art Cinemas
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
Regal Movie Theater 7
OVERHEARD 2
Broadway Commerce
Center FRINGE FESTIVAL
CLOSING PARTY
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THE ECHO OF ASTRO
Y’S FOOTSTEPS
The Shedd 8
ADRENALINE FILM
PROJECT AND AFTER-
PARTY
Bijou Art Cinemas
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
Bijou Art Cinemas
ABRAXAS
1. Baker Downtown Center: 325 E 10th
2. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: 1430 Johnson Lane
3. Bijou Art Cinemas: 492 East 13th
4. Broadway Commerce Center: 44 W. Broadway, Downtown 7. Regal Movie Theatre: 500 Valley River Center
5. Lawrence Hall: 1190 Franklin Boulevard
8. The Shedd: 868 High Street
6. Knight Library: 1501 Kincaid Street
9. Kamitori Japanese Restaurant: 1044 Willamette Street
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who moonlights as
a hip-hop deejay
by night, Eri Fujii, a
woman masterful with
the ancient Chinese
bamboo wind
instrument called
the sho, and Akihiro
Iitomi, a Noh theater
and kotsuzumi drummer with a passion
for jazz.
LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT
with guest archivist Rick Prelinger
(USA, 65 min.)
Rick Prelinger’s extensive experience
in collecting “ephemeral films” is
showcased here in an extensive montage
of film clips from
amateur home
movies, industrial
films, outtakes,
and newsreels.
We witness different periods in Detroit
spanning from the peak of the Model T
to the era of the gas-guzzler. Much of the
film’s source material is silent, and thus
the film relies on audience participation
in the soundtrack, welcoming questions,
observations, and discussion from
viewers.
MEDIA MASHERS: A FORUM with
DeeDee Halleck, Mark Hosler, and Rick
Prelinger
Where, how, and why do we exhibit
creative work emerging from practices
of remix and appropriation? Galleries?
Museums? Festivals? Other public media
outlets, live and online? Drawing on the
combined experience of media artists and
activists Rick Prelinger, DeeDee Halleck,
and Mark Hosler, this forum provides an
opportunity to explore the exhibition of
art anchored in critically informed use of
archival materials.
MIDORI-KO (Japan, 55 min.)
Japanese filmmaker Keita Kurosaka’s
Midori-ko is an experimental animated
film. With an imminent food crisis about
to strike, five scientists gather together
to produce a form of nourishment that is
a hybrid between meat and vegetable—a
“dream food.” Midori-ko was a passion
project for Kurosaka that was intricately
hand-drawn
and ten years
in the making.
Midori-ko is a
film that offers
a surrealist
perspective
on the
consumerist, ecologically threatened
world we live in.
NIGHT HUNTER AND OTHER
ANIMATIONS with guest artist Stacey
Steers
Stacey Steers will guide viewers on a
tour of her new installation piece Night
Hunter House, built to accompany her
animated film Night Hunter. Night Hunter
is composed of cut-up eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century engraved book
illustrations, and resurrects silent film star
Lillian Gish, who sews and cooks but also
contends with giant worms, swarming
moths, and a menacing snake. Steers will
also present her earlier films Phantom
Canyon, Totem, and Watunna.
OVERHEARD 2 with guest actor Daniel
Wu (Hong Kong, 121 min.)
Former soldier and wire-tapper Joe
Szema devises a plan that’s aimed at a
mysterious financial
conglomerate, the
Landlord Club, and
becomes entangled
in a dangerous
cat-and-mouse
game with Manson
Law, a renowned
stockbroker, and
police inspector Jack
Ho. Overheard 2 is packed with exciting
action sequences and delves deeply into
the machinations of modern finance. Daniel
Wu, a UO alumnus, will answer questions
from the audience after the film.
PAPER TIGER TV 30TH
ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM with media
activist DeeDee Halleck
Paper Tiger TV co-founder DeeDee
Halleck will present a compilation of
highlights from thirty years of Paper Tiger
programs. Since 1981, PTTV has been
challenging the profit-driven mainstream
media by making lo-fi and fun, yet incisive,
video that demystifies the information
industry and provides a platform for under-
represented perspectives. Collaborating
with activists and artists, Paper Tiger TV
videos take many forms—from critical
“readings” of the mass media and popular
culture, to traditional documentaries on
social justice issues.
PORTLAND ANIMATION NOW! with
Northwest Animation Festival Director
Sven Bonnichsen
Portland Animation Now! is a showcase
of twenty-two animated short features
from local independent animators,
including experienced masters and
exceptional amateurs. Presented by the
same people who organize the Northwest
Animation Festival, Portland Animation
Now! is a ninety-minute attraction that
presents a wide variety of entertaining and
artistic films involving a mix of animation
styles.
RINGING IN THEIR EARS i ntroduced
by Jonathan Hall (Japan, 89 min.)
Yu Irie’s film
focuses
on real-life
Japanese rock
band Shinsei
Kamattechan,
playing
themselves.
The film’s narrative has three stories.
The first involves the band, and the
predicament they face upon “selling out”
after online success leads to signing with
a major label. The other stories, which
intertwine with the band’s, tell of Kaori,
a young mother and part-time stripper,
and Michiko, an 18-year-old girl who is at
odds with her parents.
A SIMPLE LIFE (TAO JIE) with
producer-screenwriter Roger Lee (Hong
Kong, 118 min.)
A Simple Life
is a bittersweet
tale written by
Hong Kong film
producer and UO
alumnus Roger
Lee, whose real
life experiences
were the basis for
the film. Ah Tao
(Deanie Yip) has
been working as a dedicated servant for
the Leung family for over sixty years. She
now works for Roger (Andy Lau), the sole
Leung family member still residing in Hong
Kong. The film was Hong Kong’s official
selection for the Best Foreign Language
Film Academy Award.
TOKYO DRIFTER with director Matsue
Tetsuaki (Japan, 72 min.)
Director Matsue Tetsuaki’s Tokyo Drifter
acts as an ode to
Tokyo, with a very
simple premise: a
musician (Kenta
Maeno) wanders
around various
darkened areas of
the city on a rainy
night in May with
his guitar, singing
songs about life,
love, and Tokyo itself. Matsue and Maeno
together take the city in all its gritty
glory and attempt to shine a light on the
darkness.
THE WELCOME with guests Bob and
Moe Eaton (USA, 93 min.)
In Ashland, Oregon, a group of twenty-
four war veterans come together for a five-
day retreat. The group, including Vietnam,
Afghanistan, and
Iraq war veterans,
write poems and
tell stories of their
experiences with
post-traumatic
stress, and with
the struggle to
find normalcy.
The wrenching
process culminates in the veterans’ live
performance to a sell-out crowd at the
Ashland Shakespeare Festival. Nancy
Wozny of A+C Houston calls this “an
elegant film, exquisitely paced, and deeply
respectful of the therapeutic container of
the expressive arts.”