Asa Flats + Lofts and BridgePort Brewing Company, Oregon's oldest craft brewery, are teaming up to present “Movies In The Pearl”, featuring shorts from local area filmmakers commissioned by the Northwest Film Center. Movie trivia will be held from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. followed by a collection of short films from approximately 9 – 10 p.m. every Wednesday night from July 29th to August 26th. The event will take place between Marshall and Northrup on NW 13th Avenue just outside of BridgePort Brewpub + Bakery in the Pearl.

Free and open to the public, movies are shown in an urban outdoor theater setting where guests are encouraged to bring their own chairs, as seating is limited. A portion of all beverage sales on movie nights will go to benefit the NW Film Center and its mission to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts.


Movies in the Pearl Film Schedule

JULY 29 - PROGRAM I
AUGUST 5 - PROGRAM II
AUGUST 12 - PROGRAM III
AUGUST 19 - PROGRAM IV
AUGUST 26 - PROGRAM V






JULY 29 - PROGRAM I

AND SHE WAS / Jim Blashfield, Portland
Selected as one of Rolling Stone's 100 Best Music Videos of All Time, the Talking Heads' song comes to life with lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners and other suburban artifacts levitating through a shifting, color-xeroxed landscape. (4-1/2 mins.)

MONA LISA DESCENDING A STAIRCASE / Joan Gratz, Portland
This seamless survey of modern art takes the viewer on an astonishing journey through this century's greatest works by recreating them in "clay painting." (9 mins.)

PILEDRIVER / Calvin Lee Reeder, Seattle
Love is a bit of the unexpected and so is its end." (14 mins.)

WIND / Chel White, Portland
This allegorical perspective on climate change offers a haunting and ultimately empowering view of our planet. With piano accompaniment by Thomas Lauderdale. (5 mins.)

DANDELION / Grace Carter and Holly Andres, Portland
A stream of consciousness tour through the filmmakers’ memories of the loss of their mothers. (7 mins.)

DARLING DARLING / Matthew Lessner, Nehalem
A fine exercise in sweet surreal suburban behavior, centering on a few priceless visual conceits, audacious lighting, and a superb performance by Mr. Michael Cerra." (8 mins.)

BASTARD WANTS TO HIT ME / Courtney Booker and Aaron Sorenson, Portland
A weirdly lucid cartoon nightmare. (3 mins.)

MOON GIRL / Henry Selick, Portland
When avid night fisher Leon gets swept into the Moon by a magic constellation, he meets the Moon Girl, the latest in a long line of proprietors who carefully guard the moonlight against the monsters who seek to destroy it. (9 mins.)


AUGUST 5 - PROGRAM II

A PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS / Chel White. Portland
Noir-like praise to a prose writer's problems. (1 min.)

BRIDE OF RESISTOR / Mark Gustafson, Portland
An AC-DC dilemma gives Mr. Resistor a whole new outlook on life. (6 mins.)

NICKEL AND DIMIN' IT WITH BUDDY / Tomas Soderberg, Portland
Buddy, a homeless man in Portland, makes his living returning cans and bottles. (7 mins.)

I THINK I WAS AN ALCOHOLIC / John Callahan with Kelley Baker & Laura di Trapani, Portland
Callahan exposes the history of his own drunken self-destruction and recovery with zero self-pity, sub-zero righteousness and maximum laughs. (4-1/2 mins.)

JUNIOR / Gus Van Sant, Portland
A man, a cat, and a guitar. All the entertainment you need. (3 mins.)

GROWN-UP / Joanna Priestley, Portland
Growing up, growing old. What about middle-aging? (7 mins.)

THE PULL / Andrew Blubaugh, Portland
Before Andy and John made the transition from friends to boyfriends, they decided the exact date that they would break up. (8 mins.)

THE BIG ASS WORLD OF SCIENCE / Mike Wellins, Portland
In this wild spoof about science, Wellins searches the universe for the gene for humor. (5 mins.)

TWO / Nick Peterson. Portland
The universal saga of love lost. (10 mins.).

POPULI / David Russo, Seattle
Set to "Mars, Bringer of War," by composer Gutav Holst, PPOPULI follows the creation and journey of humanoid sculptures through various time-lapsed environments of the Northwest region. (8 mins.)


AUGUST 12 - PROGRAM III

DEERE JOHN / Mitchell Rose and Jamey Hampton, Portland
Absurdist and elegant, heavy machinery makes for an unlikely pas de deux. (5 mins).

FOUND FOOTAGE / Clancy Dennehy, Vancouver, B.C.
Found inside a Super 8 camera at a garage sale, you can you can appreciate the images as objet d'art or just enjoy the rollicking guitar soundtrack and sunny images of a boy and his mom frolicking amongst the old growth. (4 mins.)

CREAMERY BIRDS / Brian Libby, Portland
This portrait of a creamery in Portland's central eastside observes the balletic movements of the birds that gather there. (3 mins.)

JOHNNY BAGPIPES / Todd Korgan, Portland
Meet the hardest rocking bagpipe player to ever walk Portland streets. Coming out to his Irish father wasn't easy; nor will realizing his dreams to have a plaid tour bus, or jet, and to open for Metallica. (12 mins.)

DIRT / Chel White, Portland
Oddly reminiscent of a 50's sci-fi film, a man's strange obsession with dirt starts as a childhood game, but eventually manifests itself on a most surreal level. (4 mins.)

MUSICAL OFFERING / Nick Peterson, Portland
Homage to the one and only Esquivel. (7 mins.)

A EULOGY FOR MEMORY / Karl Lind, Portland
Utilizing imagery inherent in digital image making, Lind’s film imbues the familiar genre of found footage filmmaking with a new visual urgency. (2 mins.)

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES / Jim Blashfield, Portland
With the iconoclastic spirit of surrealism, Blashfield transforms a detective story about the mysterious disappearance of Herbert Emilio, Jr. into an investigation of time, space and domesticity gone awry. (12 mins.)

ANANDA / Mike Smith, Portland
Dali meets Bollywood in this surreal fantasy of a man wandering through the bleak industrial wasteland of his mind where a magical childhood memory ignites a joyous wish that the girl of his dreams might escape a tradition that keeps her from him. (5 mins.)

NATE PRESTON: KING OF PORTLAND / Andrew Dickson, Portland
Performer Dickson gets out from in front of the camera to investigate a member of the Portland hipster glitterati. (7 mins.)


AUGUST 19 - PROGRAM IV

3 OUT OF 4 / Stephen Slappe Portland
A charming portrait of a dying breed: the giant rotating sign. (1 min.)

THE GREAT COGNITO / Barry Bruce & Will Vinton, Portland
In the course of his free-associating account of WWII, a stand-up comic whose shtick is mutating into the people he impersonates becomes everyone from the Andrew Sisters to Winston Churchill to the Japanese army. (4 mins.)

TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME SKIES / Chris Lael Larson, Portland
Exquisite, state-of-the-art motion graphics poetically render the universality of humanity. (3 mins.)

NO BIKINI / Claudia Morgado Escanilla, Vancouver, BC
Filled with humor, this story of a young girl who defies convention during her summer swim class is less about defining one's gender than about discovering personal strength. (8 mins.)

BY MODERN MEASURE / Matthew Lessner, Nehalem
Two young Americans meet outside a Taco Bell in this stylish spree right out of the French New Wave. (6 mins.)

THE SUBCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL / Matt McCormick, Portland
Reclassifying graffiti as art is not a new idea in art circles -- but what about those patches of paint that city workers and establishment owners roll over the graffiti? (16 mins.)

SYMPATHIQUE / Pink Martini, Portland
A punchy, post-modern language lesson delivered a la mode by Pink Martini. (3 mins.)

BRITTON, SOUTH DAKOTA / Vanessa Renwick, Portland
The lack of narrative invites dressing these cinematic dolls with futures, now histories. The melancholic drone of the accompanying organ music tends to lead them into sad tragic finery. (8 mins.)

SCAREDYCAT / Andrew Blubaugh, Portland
The fimmaker, a walkin' talkin' phobic, has his world rocked by a mugging. With great humor and self-deprecating insight, the film offers a plaintive analysis of his compulsive plight. (13 mins.)

A MAN AND HIS PANTS / Christopher Tenzis, Portland
Dissecting a pratfall evolves into the editor’s rollicking drum solo. Elmer Fudd goes Dada. (4 mins.)


AUGUST 26 - PROGRAM V

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN 1947-2007 / Margot Quan Knight, Seattle
A woman, well documented by home snapshots, ages before our eyes. (2 mins.)

THE GOOGLIE EYE MOVIE / Zak Margolis, Portland
In 1974, Howard Lester began obsessively taking photographs of people wearing funny glasses known as: googlie eyes.” The first was of a newborn baby named Zak Margolis. 25 years later, the subject returned to create this homage to an amazing collection. (10 mins.)

HAVE YOU SEEN PATSY WAYNE? / Todd Korgan, Portland
In this pseudo-documentary, the love child of Patsy Cline and John Wayne is a woman whose charming insanity and breathless observations on family, identity and sexual disabilities are truly stranger than fiction. (7 mins.)

I AM (NOT) VAN GOGH / David Russo, Seattle
A misfit artist proposes a film production to a confused public arts festival panel. You’d give him the money. (5 mins. )

THE DISCIPLINE OF D.E. / Gus Van Sant, Portland
Everything could be so simple. (9 mins.)

MAGIC HOSTESS, THE ELECTRIC CAN OPENER / Rob Tyler, Portland
Homage to the beauty of old-school domestic appliances. (3 mins.)

STREETCAR NAMED PERSPIRE / Joanna Priestley, Portland
Priestley's animated roller coaster rides through menopause both previews and celebrates—depending on your age—one of life's most thrill-filled experiences. (6 mins.)

HELLO, THANKS / Andrew Blubaugh, Portland
Weaving off the cuff commentary and interviews with re-enactments and text, Blubaugh recounts using the personal ads to find romance but having his true love affair with the words themselves. (8 mins.)

THE DOWAGER'S FEAST / Joan Gratz, Portland
In Gratz's unique “clay painting," powerful, abstract images swirl to the music of Portland's Three Leg Torso. (5 mins.)

TRANSGENIC ROMANCE / Morgan Currie, Portland
One of those genetic engineering melodramas–– a torrid romance, they met in a Petri dish. (6 min)