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2006 PISS FEST! FEATURED FILMS All films will be screened at the historic Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd) in Portland, OR. Admission to any event is $6, or an All-Pass can be purchased for $20. Tickets or All-Passes may be purchased ahead of time through the Hollywood Theatre. Because some screenings may sell out, we recommend you get to the theater 15 minutes before each screening. |
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FUMI AND THE BAD LUCK FOOT (San Jose, CA) |
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ROSE CITY RUMBLE (Portland, OR) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM A short documentary of Portland, Oregon's Rose City Rollers Roller derby league. The film explores issues of individuality, gender identity, and the camaraderie that springs from a league of DIY derby girls. Plus, plenty of awesome on-rink gnarly derby action! 7:00 min Director: Cristin Norine & Zach Elliott Kronser |
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (United States) |
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INFINITE MOMENTS (Canada) |
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81-YEAR-OLD SWEETHEARTS (United States) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM 81-year-old Jack flies across the country to reunite with his high schoolsweetheart, Betty (also 81), whom he has not seen in 62 years. 5:50 min Director: Danielle Lurie |
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MOON IN THE BUCKET (United States) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM A woman imprisoned by her present escapes her confinement through movement and dance, only to be confronted by her past. Based on an experimental opera by Garrett Fisher. 10:00 min Director: Theo Lipfert Web: www.singingpictures.com |
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CHI ENFORECMENT UNIT: RAT TRAPS (New York, NY) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM A team of overzealous health inspectors goes to extreme measures to enforce a ban on smoking in public places. 4:00 min Director: Russell Pfleuger Web: www.cityhealthinspector.com |
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EMERGING (Miami, FL) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM Vanessa Monokian, a photographer turned stop-motion animator, takes chewed-up pencil stubs, bent paper clips, and crumpled paper and creates out of this human rubbish a strange, new insectoid microcosmos. 4:40 min Director: Vanessa Monokian Web: www.monokian.com |
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CLOWN SHORTS: DINGO THE STUFF FIXER (Portland, OR) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM Dingo Dizmal (of the (in)famous Alberta Street Clownhouse) gets himself into a fix in this distinctly Portland sendup to Vaudville. 2:41 min Director: Dingo Dizmal |
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THE TOUCH (United States) |
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ALONE TOO OFTEN (Portland, OR) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM A woman comes home to find an intruder hiding inside, but all is not as it seems. 8.08 min Director: Mike Wellins Web: www.freakybuttrue.com |
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PRETTY GIRLS (Los Angeles, CA) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM The Kids of Widney High are a group of students from Widney High School, a special ed. school in Los Angeles, who write and perform original songs. Watch Cain and Peewee escape hounding groupies in this classic music video. 9:17min Director: Michael Medaglia Web: www.prettypictures.com |
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THE GOLDFISH (Sweden) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM A lonely, alienated man goes about his daily business in his crappy, little room - harassed by a never ending stream of images from the TV. 3:27min Director: Jon Ones and Fredrik Persson Web: www.fantasmagori.se |
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CHOCOLATE (United States) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM A man asks a countergirl for chocolate and discovers it has a meaning beyond what he expected. He is forced to confront his deepest desires, as the countergirl finds a way to overcome her deepest fear. 5:30 min Director: Tim Sargant |
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FIRST DATE MELTDOWN (United States) Thursday, 10/19/06, 7:00PM Tensions boil over on a blind date, and comedy takes an absurd turn. Suffice it to say, things get pretty weird. 6:00 min Director: Tim Bartell |
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THE FAST ONE (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM On what had quickly turned into a night to forget, a deal was struck, a fast one pulled, and with it all of Gerald's ill feelings toward life trumped by his own ingenuity. 7:30 min Director: Zachary W. Kranzler Web: www.fairfieldent.com |
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FEAR TOMORROW (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM A patient with "bird-like tendencies" leads a psychiatrist to the ultimate transformation. 7:07 min Director: Gregory Hobson |
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PUPPET (New York, NY) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM Through an escalating series of torture, a young man's possessed puppet takes on the embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful self-destruction. 6:20 min Director: Patrick Smith Web: www.blendfilms.com |
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MINUTIAE (San Fransisco, CA) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM A man finds the courage to urinate in front of his new girlfriend. 8:52 min Director: Jason Jakaitis |
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HORSES (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's video communicates the lure of the highway - while tacitly acknowledging the limitations of the freedom it confers on its riders. It's a blast of sunshine and warmth in a blacktop landscape, a keyhole in the evening. 4:35 min Director: Braden King Web: www.truckstopmedia.com |
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THE TROUBLE WITH ROOMMATES (Portland, OR) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM Remember that roommate you had back in college that would blast "Freebird" at three in the morning, "borrow" all your beer, and pass out naked on the couch? Well…it could be worse. 7:58 min Director: DJ Hupp Web: www.djfilms.com |
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DEVIL'S CANYON (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM A speculative narrative mined from abandoned images of the American West. Mechanical horses, a doomed automobile town, and distressed cowboys are composited into a tale of tragedy. 6:10 min Director: Kelly Sears |
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FILIPINO SONG (Israel) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM It is the Israeli Memorial Day. A Filipino aid helps her vetern to get dressed, when he treats her with no warmth for her efforts. 5:30 min Director: Eliya Reis |
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HAIRLADY (Canada) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM A musical exploration of one man's hair and the woman who collects it. 8:12 min Director: David Birdsell |
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PILLOW GIRL (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM Originally a sound-art work created for Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art, "Pillow Girl" morphs over 200 lurid images from vintage men's paperback covers into a haunting compendium of a bygone art form. 4:00 min Director: Ronnie Cramer Web: www.cultfilms.net |
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SNOOZER (Vincennes, IN) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM Boy meets girl and pursues her through a series of intertwining dreams, facing surreal obstacles and a dastardly rival for her affection. Inspired by classic cartoons, Jorge Luis Borges, and the Beach Boys. 10:00 min Director: Jason Affolder |
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PIMP MY CASKET (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 7:00PM Join Xhibitionist and the West Coast Casket crew as they "pimp out" Mrs. Walker's casket. A dead-on parody of the popular MTV show "Pimp My Ride." 3:00 min Director: Lyz Holder |
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30 SECONDS (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM This hilarious and award-winning comedy unravels the truth about the theory that men think about sex every 30 seconds. 8:22 min Director: Robert Hoover Web: www.myspace.com/30secondstheshortfilm |
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TRUE (Australia) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM A man walks into bar... what happens next is a true story, depending on who you speak to. 8:36 min Director: Dean Friske |
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MY SONY & ME (Phoenix, AZ) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM Quirky comedy about filmmaker/actor Ted Herbig who, after buying his first-ever Sony camcorder, unexpectedly develops a unique and special relationship with it, a relationship that sparks surprising new freedom. 7:05 min Director: Ted Herbig |
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| FALSE PROMISE (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM An unblinking and harrowing descent into the truth behind the front door of a massage parlor. In Angel's world every promise is a lie. 10:00 min Director: Lionel Coleman |
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CASE HISTORY (Notre Dame, IN) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM The strict account of the arrest of a priest--a popular teacher--accused of visiting a child pornography website. We follow his troubled path as he prays for guidance and understanding. 7:58 min Director: John Klein and Mike Molenda |
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LUCIDITY (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM A terrifying glimpse into that fleeting space that marks the end of consciousness. 4:45 min Director: Sean Spence |
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ORANGE (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM An escaped convict takes an oddly casual stroll along the highway... 7:25 min Director: Buckley Hubbard |
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LOVE RUNS RED (Los Angelas, CA) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM An artistic dance piece that confronts the pain of shattered love. 8:54 min Director: Trevor John |
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SHANK 101 (United States) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM When a troubled teenager gets called in to meet with his high school's guidance counselor, the advice he receives will set his life on a new and awful path. 10:00 min Director: Nathan Marshall Web: www.nathanmarshall.com |
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THE STEAKHOUSE (Portland, OR) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM Possibly a vegetarian's worst nightmare. Director: DJ Hupp Web: www.djfilms.com |
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MIME MASSACRE (Canada) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM One man's mission for vengeance on all mimes explodes in a day of mimed bloodshed. 6:01 min Director: Colin Decker |
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PHYSICAL (Los Angelas, CA) Friday, 10/20/06, 9:00PM During a routine physical exam, Jason delves a little too deeply into the details of his sexual frustrations with his current girlfriend. 8:30 min Director: Dan Riesser Web: www.irrationalfilms.com |
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UH-OH: A BRIEF ENCOUNTER (United States) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM An animated short about an all-too-brief meeting on a distant planet. Colorful and kinetic, "Uh-Oh" unfolds to the fast-paced music of the legendary Raymond Scott. 1:41 min Director: Joe Henke Web: www.heromp.com |
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DAILY SPECIALS (United States) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM A comic dance-film in which a man for sale in the produce section of a supermarket fantasizes about his perfect buyer. 9:05 min Director: Rebecca Salzer and Svetlana Czetko Web: www.rebeccasalzerdance.org |
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RUMBLE (United States) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM One moment at a local train crossing could change the way two people experience the world forever. 7:00 min Director: Devora Rogers Web: www.devorarogers.com |
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LEO E SANDRA (Italy) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM Leo is a very silent boy who would like to introduce himself to his neighbour who studies on the opposite terrace. 6:35 min Director: Alessandro Celli Web: www.bluesuedeshoots.com |
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ONCE UPON A MORNING (Los Angeles, CA) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM After realizing he has no milk for his cereal, our hero struggles to come to grips with his only alternative… 6:58 min Director: Mike Montgomery |
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OWENSVILLE (Washington, DC) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM An unlikely friendship develops between an agoraphobic girl and a Mormon missionary who can't ride a bike. 7:00 min Director: John Stuhldreher and Richard Wood |
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COPY THAT (New York, NY) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM A young production assistant learns the most dangerous part of working in television is its stars. 10:00 min Director: Matthew D. Panepinto |
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ROOM TO BREATHE (Portland, OR) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM Richard Poncher just wants all the noise to stop; he'd trade anything for a little room to breathe. 10:00 min Director: Steven L. Johnson Web: www.myspace.com/breathingroomthemovie |
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THE END (Canada) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM Death, mankind's greatest and most feared mystery, is finally revealed…to a ten-ton machine on a distant moon. 6:16 min Director: Payton Curtis Web: http://www.darkfarm.ca |
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THERAPY (Portland, OR) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM Linda thought that group therapy might be the answer to her problems… 10:00 min Director: Mike Chappell Web: www.muddandbones.com |
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GAG (Portland, OR) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM An appropriately absurd response to the state of the nation--and America's symbol of freedom--the American Flag. 1:14 min Director: Emily Franz |
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KALI MA (United States) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM When a suburban Indian mother finds out her son has been brutalized at school, she takes matters into her own hands. In her Sari and white sneakers, she marches to the bullies house and delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. 10:00 min Director: William Graham |
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GFM - COPY REMIX (Portland, OR) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM A myseterious traveler, clad in burlap, has but one weapon to set the world right: his Key-tar! Featuring Willamette Week's 2006 Best New Band winner: Copy. 3:49 min Director: Uli Beutter and Alec Cohen Web: www.sandymontana.com |
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THE STORY OF BUBBLEBOY (Australia) Saturday, 10/21/06, 7:00PM In a stab-happy world, a sad outcast wrestles with his demons. The story of Bubbleboy is a film about being trapped by the past and redeemed by the future. 6:05 min Director: Sean Ascroft |
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