Walking into a warehouse in Portland in 2003, I saw 10 old refrigerators lined up against a wall in an assortment of once tony shades: avocado, orange, dark brown. I opened one and saw a video of a wolf chasing what it hoped would be dinner. Each refrigerator contained a similar chase, but only in one did the wolf score. The title of the piece, Hunting Requires Optimism, struck me as the perfect metaphor for making art.
Vanessa Renwick, creator of Hunting Requires Optimism, is good with titles. (She calls her Web site the Oregon Department of Kick Ass.)
October 7 -9, she hosts a survey of Portland short films at the Northwest Film Forum, titled, A Natural Selection. Missing it is a bad idea.
Still from Melody Owen’s Kayavak
Rewick describes her survey as
…some hopping films from Portland’s finest artists. Lions! Bicycles! Melting Polar opposites! Rabbits! Record Stores! Beluga Whales! Tears! Mind bending! and MORE!
They include:
That’s Fine, You’re Doing Perfectly by Karl Lind
Performance by Robin Moore
Lion Roars by Melody Owen
Moonbabies, part 1 of You Were a Perfect Gentleman and part 2 New World by Zak Margolis
Pain Is Fear Leaving Your Body by Alicia McDaid
Storm Studies 1 by Liz Haley
Kayavak by Melody Owen
Portrait #3: House of Sound by Vanessa Renwick
A Vertiginous One by Zach Margolis
Psychic City by Judah Switzer
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