Portland Art Museum & PAM CUT
In accordance with Oregon Governor Brown’s office, the Museum and Northwest Film Center have lifted COVID-19 pandemic restrictions including mask-wearing and social distancing. The lifted restrictions also mean there is more visitor capacity for popular exhibitions like Ansel Adams in Our Time. Museum staff and visitors are encouraged and empowered to make their own individual… Read more
Running throughout July 2021, the space at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI), on the east bank of the Willamette River, will offer Thursday & Friday night drive-in screenings of great movies, offering food and drink, dress-up nights, and space for “bike-in” participation too. This drive-in at the OMSI Bridge Lot is part… Read more
Slow MachineDirected by Paul Felten, Joe DeNardoThriller | 72 minutes | 2020 | United StatesOpens on June 11, 2021 Stephanie, a restless and vibrant actress, meets Gerard, an NYPD counter-terrorism specialist who’s an aficionado of experimental theater (and maybe out of his mind). Flirtation ensues, ends disastrously, and forces Stephanie to the ramshackle upstate home… Read more
The Cinema Unbound Summer Movie Series, running July, August and September 2021, welcomes guests to safely gather and experience the power that truly radical and entertaining cinematic storytelling can bring. Unbound from the traditional movie theater setting, we’re creating new venues throughout the city starting with the Open-Air Cinema at the Lloyd Center. Cinema Unbound… Read more
The Northwest Film Center has announced that filmmakers Masami Kawai and Reed Harkness have been awarded the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship for 2021. The Oregon Media Arts Fellowship is an award given every other year for filmmakers who have shown a commitment to the moving image arts and pushing their practice with new and engaging… Read more
Cinematic storytelling, like art, comes in all forms—movies, serialized stories, TikTok, and even transporting podcasts. All to say, inspiration and innovation come sometimes from unlikely sources these days while we watch and wait at home. For example, I’m not a particularly avid European football fan, nor am I prone to fish-out-of-water stories. Before this moment,… Read more
The Northwest Film Center and the Portland Art Museum present In Silico. Screens online April 30, 2021, through May 29, 2021. The story of a synthetic human mind as polarizing as its creator. A young filmmaker sets out to document a brilliant neuroscientist who has become frustrated with his field’s status quo. With time elapsing and millions… Read more
Some folks really love sports. In our house, Oscar Night is the World Series, Stanley Cup, and Super Bowl all rolled into one. We roll out a mangy red carpet, sculpt Oscars out of butter, and crowd around the TV clutching our ballots and falling in love (again, and again) with the power of movies… Read more
The Northwest Film Center and the Portland Art Museum present Małni—Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore. Screens online starting April 9, 2021. A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, Małni—Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore follows two people as they wander through their surrounding… Read more
The debut feature from director Fernanda Valadez takes top honors in boundary-pushing new cinema from emerging filmmakers at the Portland International Film Festival. The Northwest Film Center is excited to announce the winner of the 44th Portland International Film Festival’s Future/future competition: Identifying Features, directed by Fernanda Valadez. The film, an intriguing and confident first… Read more