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March 1, 2017
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Northeast Portland’s non-profit Hollywood Theater has opened a
‘micro-cinema’ at Portland International Airport, a 17-seat movie
house for travelers to watch short films for free, which will play on
a loop.
Northwest Films at Airport
Unique free
theater opens on
Concourse C
A first-of-its-kind free theater
experience featuring short films
from regional filmmakers is now
greeting travelers at Portland In-
ternational Airport.
The Hollywood Theatre at PDX,
a free 17-seat micro-cinema located
in the C Concourse, was developed
by northeast Portland’s nonprofit
Hollywood Theater in collabora-
tion with the PDX Art program at
the Port of Portland. The airport
venue will offer an hour-long pro-
gram of short films from Pacific
Northwest filmmakers, including
documentaries, music videos, ani-
mations, and short fiction.
Playing on a loop, the theater
will be open to travelers around
the clock. Updates will be made
quarterly with new films. The in-
augural program includes a Pink
Martini-inspired video from Hous-
eSpecial; a circus-themed story of
love gone wrong from animator
Chel White; and a hip hop video
from Portland rapper Mic Capes.
The venue will also be used for
occasional live performances and
other special events.
The Hollywood Theater at
PDX features state-of-the-art
projection and sound, thanks to
a top-notch crew of technical
partners, many of whom donated
equipment and time.
Filmmakers are encouraged to
submit their work for consider-
ation of future programs through
filmfreeway.com.
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Kalimah Abioto, artist-in-residence with the media arts center Open Signal and the Regional Arts
and Culture Council, will debut her film “Sight” on First Thursday, March 2, as part of Neon Lights, a
monthly digital media event in which artists project their work onto the exterior wall of the arts coun-
cil’s downtown offices at 411 N.W. Park Ave.
Embracing Your Shadow
Filmmaker
debuts ‘Slight’
on First
Thursday
and the Regional Arts & Culture
Council have partnered to support
artist-in-residence and Portland
filmmaker Kalimah Abioto. The
residency is part of Night Lights,
a monthly digital media event on
First Thursdays in which artists
project their work onto the north
The media arts center Open Sig- exterior wall of council’s down-
nal at Portland Community Media town offices.
A graduate of the film program
at Hollins University in Virginia,
Abioto’s work includes experi-
mentally edited short documen-
taries and narrative films, with a
focus on the African American
communities in Portland and
Memphis.
In November, she used the re-
sources of a $5,000 grant from the
arts organization and the media
equipment, facilities and training
of Open Signal to travel to Mali,
West Africa, where she collected
video footage in Dogon Country,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Since returning to Portland, she
has collaborated with local danc-
ers, musicians, filmmakers and
prop-makers to create “Sight,”
a film that tells the story of three
young girls with the ability to
travel to different dimensions,
who help an adult woman to redis-
cover her own power.
“It’s a film about spirituality—
going inside to retrieve your gifts
and share them with the world,”
Abioto said. “Embracing your
shadow, in a way.”
Abioto will debut “Sight,” start-
ing at dusk, on Thursday, March 2
at the Regional Arts and& Culture
Council’s north exterior wall, 411
N.W. Park Ave.
On March 22, she will deliver
an artist talk in conjunction with
her film collaborators at Open Sig-
nal at 7 p.m., screening her film
again, discussing her filmmaking
process and taking questions from
the audience about its inspiration
and production.