The Portland 10 or Less Film Festival

The 2007 10 or Less Film Festival * October 18th-20th * Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, PDX, Oregon

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	2 IN THE AM PM DIRECTED BY J.G. QUINTEL VALENCIA, CA 7.5 MIN, SHORTS II What happens when two teenagers are left alone to run a gas station on Halloween night? They feed each other candy...filled with drugs.
	AIRPORT JORDAN DIRECTED BY HOLLY GRUBBS PORTLAND, OR 9 MIN, SHORTS II Allan Heckard happens to look like Michael Jordan…a little bit too much like Michael Jordan. When Allan sues Jordan and Nike for defamation he really learns what it’s like to get unwanted attention.
	ALL THAT YOU WANT DIRECTED BY SEAN STRAUSS PORTLAND, OR 5 MIN, SHORTS III "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." - Ani DiFranco
	ALTO RIESGO (HIGH RISK) DIRECTED BY NAHUEL LOSADA SPAIN 10 MIN, SHORTS III A young man who grew up in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis confronts his anxiety with the announcement of a new drug resistant super virus.
	AMERICA IN PICTURES DIRECTED BY GEORG KOSZULINSKI UNITED STATES 6.5 MIN, DREAMBOX THEATER Abstract forms and frames represent director Georg Koszulinski’s North American travels. Shot on 16mm, and using transfers of still photographs, it retains all the serrated grittiness of a personal film processed by hand in a bathroom.
	AUX 1 DIRECTEDBY JACK BECK AND MATT COSTANZA UNITED STATES 6 MIN, DREAMBOX THEATER The electronic image, looped upon itself, exposes the circuitry, the matrix, and becomes its own surface texture, color and motion. AUX 1 is at times hallucinatory, other times a meditation—all through feedback loop manipulation.
	BEN: A TRUE STORY DIRECTED BY MELANIE BROWN PORTLAND, OR 3 MIN, SHORTS IV On a typical Portland day to get coffee with a friend, a neighborhood turns into a musical stage with the melody of “Ben” permeating through the air.
	THE BIG PULL DIRECTED BY GALEN CARTER-JEFFREY AUSTIN, TX 2 MIN, SHORTS III A nasty little short that amps up the squirm factor and will make you think twice about pulling a mysterious string that’s hanging out of your nose.
	BY BICYCLE DIRECTED BY KEVIN FREENY AND MIKE KITSON PORTLAND, OR 7 MIN, DREAMBOX THEATER The road to serenity is long and winding, and best approached--as this PDX original will attest--by bike.
	CHARLIE & GUY DIRECTED BY SAMUEL NALBAND PHILADELPHIA, PA 9.5 MIN, SHORTS IV In this documentary, two aging homeless men forge a friendship while enduring the physical and emotional hardships of living on the street.
	DADDY'S LITTLE MAN DIRECTED BY SHANNON ANDERSON WAKEFIELD, MA 3 MIN, SHORTS IV Growing up isn't always pleasant. It's even worse when bad things happen to everything you touch. What started out as a nice day ends with utter chaos and one spooked child running to daddy for help.
	DEATHTRAP DIRECTED BY PASCAL TROTTIER CANADA 8 MIN, SHORTS IV Two boys stumble upon an abandoned vintage refrigerator with a dark past. A cautionary tale for any kid who’s Achilles heel is the dreaded double-dare.
	DRAW DIRECTED BY VENESSA MONOKIAN MIAMI, FL 1 MIN, SHORTS IV Common materials are transformed in to unsurely life forms in this surrealist stop- animated jaunt.
	ECHO HELSTROM: HUNGRY GHOST DIRECTED BY KURT NISHIMURA PORTLAND, OR 3 MIN, SHORTS I A lithe and haunted dancer shifts and bounds through a darkened warehouse in this graceful stop-action-animated music video from director Kurt Nishimura.
	FARMER BROWN DIRECTED BY CHARLIE CLINE UNITED STATES 4 MIN, SHORTS I From daily agrarian toil to battling off otherworldly interlopers, this Super 8 vignette represents the tough, can-do stoicism of life in the American heartland.
	FILTHY FOOD DIRECTED BY T. ARTHUR COTTAM LOS ANGELES, CA 5 MIN, SHORTS III A woman does some very suggestive things with all manner of food…in what might possibly be the dirtiest short film to ever whet your appetite.
	FINDING HIMSELF IN A THAUMATROPE DIRECTED BY JESSE LA FLAIR UNITED STATES 1 MIN, DREAMBOX THEATER A man searches for himself, but is blocked by the space between the video's frames. Only in the mind's eye can he really find himself.
	FIVE CENTS A PEEK DIRECTED BY VANESSA WOODS PETERBOROUGH, NH 6.5 MIN, DREAMBOX THEATER Five Cents a Peek is a filmic interpretation of a poem by Sharon Olds wherein the circus becomes a metaphor for a woman's performance in, and for, the world.
	FRAGILE MACHINE DIRECTED BY BEN STEELE UNITED STATES 10 MIN, SHORTS IV This CG film about science, religion, and man's role in a new nature of which he has partial authorship has been likened to an "electronic operetta," and tells the story of life designed in a factory instead of born from a womb.
	THE GAME DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON AUSTRALIA 7.5 MIN, SHORTS III Another Saturday Night, another game of World Of Movies for four friends. But tonight there's a DVD question, and the game just got very serious...
	GNATURAL WONDERS DIRECTED BY BENNETT BATTAILE PORTLAND, OR 1.5 MIN, SHORTS IV We see formation-flying gnats as scientists at the Gnat Training Research Lab put them through their paces. Oddly however, the gnats have developed a baffling formation of their own. Shown in 3D!
	GOT NEXT DIRECTED BY F.M. STRYPE UNITED STATES 10 MIN, SHORTS I An uplifting tale of a group of black teens playing street-basketball who cross paths with a lone white, Jewish kid, who wants to play in their next pick-up game.
	GROUND FLOOR RIGHT DIRECTED BY MARLENE SCHIOTT RASMUSSEN UNITED KINGDOM 5 MIN, SHORTS I Do you depend on having someone who depends on you? Ground Floor Right portrays life in a small flat in London where an elderly man, Fang, lives side by side with one hundred birds.
	GUY DIRECTED BY ALONSO J. LUJAN FRANCE 7 MIN, SHORTS III Guy suffers silently through life's daily assaults, but all this changes one day when the stranger disrupts the grinding monotony and causes him to question his very existence.
	HELLS ANGELS SAFEHOUSE DIRECTED BY ASHLEY HOLZWASSER UNITED STATES 2 MIN, SHORTS II A girl and her boyfriend find themselves in a Hells Angels safehouse exchanging some very odd conversation with their hosts.
	HUINALINI DIRECTED BY HYE-IN KIM REPUBLIC OF KOREA 3 MIN, SHORTS II This politically charged short documents the practice of sexual slavery perpetuated by the Japanese military on civilians before and during World War II.
	I DREAM IN STEREO DIRECTED BY KEN GLASER CALIFORNIA 4 MIN, DREAMBOX THEATER I Dream In Stereo is a multi-layered music video that brings to life a song Ken wrote about the sonic aspects of dreaming.
	I MET THE WALRUS DIRECTED BY JOSH RASKIN CANADA 5 MIN, SHORTS II This cascading flood of multi-pronged animation was inspired by a 1969 interview with John Lennon, taken at the time by 14-year-old Beatle fanatic Jerry Levitan.
	KATE & GEORGE DIRECTED BY LISA CURRY LOS ANGELES, CA 6 MIN, SHORTS I Upon her husband’s death, a woman finds herself in an imaginative state of denial. In grief, the two find each other again and revisit the poignant moments of a life together.
	LOST UTOPIA DIRECTED BY MIRAI MIZUE JAPAN 5 MIN, SHORTS IV The tale of the Biblical Adam and Eve is used as the motif in this anthropomorphic phantasmagoria of animated images.
	LOVE BY NUMBERS DIRECTED BY MATT DONALDSON PORTLAND, OR 9 MIN, SHORTS IV Psych student Harry has devised a survey that can predict how anyone will act in a relationship. But in the hands of his officemate, the test soon gives new meaning to the phrase “too much information!”
	MAN OF THE YEAR DIRECTED BY SCOTT OULLETTE PORTLAND, OR 5 MIN, SHORTS III A personal portrait of an autistic janitor at a Portland bar, who also happens to be a lifelong Trailblazers fan.
	MASSACRE AT MURAMBI DIRECTED BY SAM KAUFFMANN UNITED STATES, RWANDA 5 MIN, SHORTS IV In Rwanda in 1994, a school on a hill named Murambi was the site of one of the world’s most horrifying mass murders. This film uses those events as a way to question our response to the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
	NOT SO SMALL TALK DIRECTED BY KEILLY AND ROETERS UNITED STATES 4 MIN, SHORTS III Much to the surprise and delight of their coworkers, two women's conversation about "self improvement" becomes very touchy-feely.
	ONE MORE TIME DIRECTED BY JESSE GRCE LOS ANGELES, CA 5 MIN, SHORTS III Every night Ethan awakens to find himself in an abandoned shack with another person chained to a chair. He has five minutes to free them before they're killed. Tonight that person is his fiancé.
	[O]NE TO THE OTHER DIRECTED BY TRINA ROSE CUTUGNO UNITED STATES 6 MIN, SHORTS II When a little person is offered assistance by a wheelchair-bound man in a coffee shop, so begins a greater exploration of the interrelation of all people.
	PASSING DIRECTED BY VANESSA WOODS PETERBOROUGH, NH 1 MIN, SHORTS II Passing explores the idea of passing (passing time, passing histories, and passing away). Mark making, collage and sound engender a new history in the spaces of a vanishing home.
	PETERSON'S SAVINGS AND LOAN DIRECTED BY WILL ELLIOTT AUSTIN, TX 9 MIN, SHORTS III When super geek Kirk Grabowski's credit card gets denied, he is forced to go head to head with an eccentric bank employee and a series of way too personal questions.
	PULL ON PUSH OFF DIRECTED BY PHILIP LEAMAN ANN ARBOR, MI 6 MIN, SHORTS I A four-part film that examines concepts of attraction and repulsion through an eye-popping experimental approach.
	RAINBOW BRITE: THE TRUE SATURDAY MORNING STORY DIRECTED BY TYLER SPENCER PORTLAND, OR 5 MIN, SHORTS III The true story of the meteoric rise and fall of Rainbow Brite as told by the people who were there and knew her best.
	THE RED BALLOON DIRECTED BY MICHAEL OLESEN UNITED STATES 3 MIN, SHORTS I A young boy enlists the help of a balloon seller to send birthday wishes to his Mom - in the only way he knows how. A simple story of loss and longing.
	THE RIFLE WORKBOOK DIRECTED BY VINCENT CALDONI UNITED STATES 6 MIN, SHORTS I A mysterious and angelic figure presides over a ceremony populated surrealistic hill-folk as they perform a series of bizarre, miniature rituals…leading to a most unexpected climax.
	RING! RING! DIRECTED BY ARMAN BOHN PORTLAND, OR 9.5 MIN, SHORTS I Inspired by the filmmaker’s doorbell in his first apartment in Portland, Ring! Ring! is a story that concerns machines, creativity and, somewhat sadly, unobtainable goals.
	ROOMLIGHT DIRECTED BY PETER WILLIAMS UNITED STATES 1 MIN, SHORTS IV ROOMlight uses motion control camera work to turn a variegated room of houseplants into a beautifully shifting prism of light and vertiginous greenery.
	SATURDAY NIGHT NEWTOWN SUNDAY MORNING ENMORE DIRECTED BY CHIRSTOPHER JOHNSON AUSTRALIA 7.5 MIN, SHORTS II Claire wakes next to Matthew: "not her type". Her memories of the night before are hazy; his are more fanciful. A story of romantic possibilities.
	SILENTLY DIRECTED BY EIJI SHIMADA JAPAN 8 MIN, SHORTS I In this city, winter lasts over half a year, and it snows 6 meters every year. Why does it snow so much? Someone said, that's because this city is a city of love.
	SOME APOLOGIES DIRECTED BY ADEM WELDON UNITED STATES 7.5 MIN, SHORTS IV An older brother remembers the time he hit his younger brother in the face and paints a nuanced portrait of sibling rivalry while touching upon the mysteries of memory and guilt.
	STRATEGERY DIRECTED BY JIM LOWRY PORTLAND, OR 2.5 MIN, SHORTS III A brief and brutal allegory for the current administration’s absurd, blind assertion of will that can only end with more of the same: pointless loss of life.
	TIME PERCEPTION DIRECTED BY SHAHROM TAGHIZADEGAN PORTLAND, OR 3 MIN , SHORTS I With exploding colors, syncopated music, and temporal manipulation, director Shahrom Taghizadegan shows us a Pacific Northwest landscape and the people that inhabit it with new eyes.
	THE TREE WITH THE LIGHTS IN IT DIRECTED BY JASON HARRINGTON UNITED STATES 5 MIN, SHORTS II Inspired by a quote from Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek this short animation explores the vision of a young girl discovering the world for the first time through her eyes.
	UNRAVELING DIRECTED BY SARAH CORTESE UNITED STATES 3 MIN, SHORTS IV Using the metaphor of a ball of yarn, Unraveling knits together the memories of Marie Keller, an 87-year-old struggling with memory loss.
	WATERWAITER DIRECTED BY PETER WILLIAMS UNITED STATES 1 MIN, SHORTS II Set in a parched desert, WATERwaiter uses captivating motion control camera work and live action to create a sliding split-screen puzzle of interlocking spaces.
	WHEN I GROW UP DIRECTED BY MICHELLE MEEKER SAN FRANCISCO, CA 7 MIN, SHORTS I An international team of 12 artists created this juxtaposition of boundless, youthful expectation with the unpredictable, and sometimes tragic realities we end up living.
	WILL OF THE WISP DIRECTED BY JODY THOMPSON CANADA 10 MIN, SHORTS II A sensual and lyrical visual poem Will of the Wisp is a heartfelt portrait of hope, documenting one woman‘s journey to overcome childhood assault and reclaim her body, her sexuality and her[self].
	WOOD DIARY DIRECTED BY DAVID MEYERS UNITED STATES 5.5 MIN, SHORTS II Walker Woods lives in a world stifled with dependence and disarray, and shows no hope for change. Yet beneath it all this film reveals the inner beauty of an outsider artist and his masterful wood and metal creations.
	ZOOLOGIC DIRECTED BY NICOLE MITCHELL UNITED STATES 4 MIN, SHORTS I A fussy zookeeper maintains strict order in his zoo, but his absolute rule begins to falter when he encounters a fat little penguin; a resident who refuses to be shaped to fit.