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Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Web-only special content

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Words and Pictures

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Mon, 06/25/2012

Best-selling author and foreign correspondent Chris Hedges and comics journalist Joe Sacco tell more stories of their collaboration on the book Days of Destuction, Days of Revolt, as well as their adventures reporting from trouble spots both at home and abroad.

26:48 minutes (10.74 MB)

Women in Film and Outdoor Screenings

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The Film Show

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Thu, 06/28/2012

Jenn Chavez asks Andrea Leoncavallo and Jackie Weissman of the Portland chapter of Women in Film about the programs and resources available to independent filmmakers. And S.W.

29:17 minutes (11.73 MB)

Homer Davenport Centennial Commemoration

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Words and Pictures

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Thu, 07/12/2012

Political cartoonist, sportsman, world traveler, and gadfly Homer Davenport has been called "Oregon's first media superstar" and "the last casualty of the Titanic." In the centennial year of his death, historian and author Gus Frederick invites host S.W. Conser to Silverton, Oregon, to tour Homer's ancestral home GeerCrest Farm, learn about the political ferment of the gilded age through a newly annotated collection of Davenport cartoons, and preview the Homer Davenport Days celebration coming up August 3rd through 5th.

41:30 minutes (16.62 MB)

Local Documentarians

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The Film Show

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Thu, 07/26/2012

Oregon documentarians continue to make waves both here at home and on the international stage. Today Natalie Butto talks with Sarah Henderson and Erich Lyttle, the directors behind the feature film We Grew Wings. Arriving on the festival circuit on the 40th anniversary of Title IX, We Grew Wings is a powerful profile of championship University of Oregon women's track and field teams across the generations. Also, 29:40 minutes (11.89 MB)

ParaNorman's co-directors, Time Based Art, and a Lebanese documentarian in Oregon

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The Film Show

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Thu, 08/23/2012

ParaNorman co-directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell visit The Film Show this month to talk about the joys of stop-motion animation, classic horror movies, and the rare glimpse of sunshine in Oregon. Also, Jenn Chavez talks with documentarian 41:47 minutes (16.74 MB)

Experiments with Film and Music

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The Film Show

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Thu, 09/27/2012

With the coming of fall, exciting new film events are taking place. Lawrence Johnson is the 2012 Regional Arts & Culture Council Media Arts Fellow, and will host a screening at the Northwest Film Center of his documentary and experimental works dealing with the history and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Mia Ferm joins us once again to introduce a series of archival screenings at the Yale Union, and animator/musician Alexis Gideon describes his touring film-based performance Video Musics III: Floating Oceans, in which he accompanies his own animation with a live operatic soundtrack of vocal and instrumental loops.

28:08 minutes (11.27 MB)

The Projects International Art & Comics Fest, plus a conversation with Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco

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Words and Pictures

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Thu, 10/11/2012

Nation Institute Senior Fellow Chris Hedges (American Fascists, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) and comics journalist Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde) have teamed up to produce Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a sweeping portrait of the American underclass and the institutions that profit from their misery. Sitting down with West Virginia coal miners; immigrant farmworkers in Florida; Sioux activists at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; elderly residents of Camden, New Jersey; and Wall Street occupiers in New York, Hedges and Sacco bring together wrenching stories of crisis, despair, survival, and hope, the personal histories brought to life with Sacco's painstaking illustrations.

Also featured on today's show: a preview of the upcoming Projects International Art & Comics Fest with organizer Dunja Jankovic.

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30:20 minutes (12.15 MB)

Fall Festivals

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The Film Show

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Mon, 10/29/2012

On this month's episode of The Film Show, Jenn Chavez previews the upcoming Portland Humanist Film Festival at Cinema 21 with Festival Chair Sylvia Benner and S.W. Conser talks to animator and CalArts instructor Maureen Selwood, who is judging the entries for the 39th annual Northwest Filmmakers' Festival.

27:27 minutes (11 MB)

Ellen Forney: Marbles

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Words and Pictures

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Thu, 12/13/2012

Seattle comics artist, writer, teacher, and illustrator Ellen Forney has always brought a refreshing mix of frankness, whimsy, and fluid linework to her non-fiction comics, whether she's dealing with childhood nostalgia (I Was Seven in '75) or adult "playtime" (Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger).

Forney's new graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me is her most confessional book, a heady mix of creative ferment, societal and psychological studies, and personal stories (following her initiation into "Club Van Gogh") that she hopes will shed light on the often misunderstood phenomenon of bipolar disorder.

36:37 minutes (14.67 MB)

Low-Budget Filmmaking and the Clinton Street Centennial

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The Film Show

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Thu, 12/27/2012

In this year-end edition of The Film Show, Oregon legislator turned filmmaker David Edwards previews his low-budget sci-fi feature Nightscape, filmed in the wilds of Hillsboro. Then, we're joined by Lani Jo and Roger Leigh, the new proprietors of the storied Clinton Street Theater, which will be celebrating its centennial year with a series of special screenings and events.