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Roz Chast - Expanded Audio

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2023/11/09

In this extended (and unexpurgated) conversation with cartoonist Roz Chast, we spend an extra 15 minutes with the bestselling author who inspired The New Yorker’s David Remnick to say: “She’s got a very recognizable style of squiggly lines and neurotic characters.” Roz'...

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Harrod Blank

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2023/10/26

Harrod Blank is a hero of underground culture, taking the prankster spirit to the world of documentary film. His mother was the erotic ceramicist Gail Perrin Blank and his father was legendary director Les Blank, known for his filmic studies of ethnomusicology. Harrod ...

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Signe Baumane

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2023/10/12

Independent animator Signe Baumane has directed multiple short films and two feature films, Rocks in My Pockets and My Love Affair With Marriage. Now touring the Pacific Northwest, My Love Affair With Marriage follows the misadventures of Zelma, whose 23-year quest for ...

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Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson

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2023/09/28

In 2013, award-winning political cartoonist Matt Bors founded the website The Nib, dedicated to comics journalism. After a decade of publishing non-fiction comics from around the globe, Matt is saying goodbye to The Nib. S.W. Conser talks with Matt about the history of ...

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Gorge Impact Film Festival

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2023/09/14

The Gorge Impact Film Festival is an environmentally-themed event that's making its premiere this November in Hood River, Oregon, featuring independent films, speakers, and workshops. S.W. Conser previews the festival with three of its organizers. Alan Hickenbottom is ...

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History Mystery and Odyssey

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2023/08/10

Portland's reputation as a hub for independent animation gains new stature in a documentary from British filmmaker Martin Cooper. In History, Mystery, and Odyssey, Martin profiles six iconic Portland animators: Rose Bond, Chel White, Joanna Priestley, Jim Blashfield, Jo...

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History Mystery and Odyssey - Expanded Audio

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2023/08/10

In this extended conversation with British filmmaker Martin Cooper and independent animators Rose Bond, Joanna Priestley, and Joan Gratz, we take a deeper dive into Portland's reputation as a hub for independent animation. History, Mystery, and Odyssey is Martin's most ...

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Festival of Cinema Animation and Technology

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2023/07/27

The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology has been touring the world for over a decade as the International Festival of Cinema and Technology. Now it's come home to Portland as a four-day event that will be taking place at the Oregon Museum of Science an...

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1/6: The Graphic Novel

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2023/07/13

What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded? That's the question asked in 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021. Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p...

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Alison Bechdel - from the Archive

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2023/06/22

In this episode of Words and Pictures from May of 2012, we revisit Alison Bechdel, creator of the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? Alison may be best known for the “Bechdel Test,” which orig...

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Crafting Pinocchio

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2023/06/08

The Portland Art Museum's new exhibition "Crafting Pinocchio" takes visitors inside the world of Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning version of Pinocchio, created largely in Portland with local stop-motion animators. Pinocchio Co-Director Mark Gustafson and Animat...

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Terence Blanchard and Damien Geter

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2023/05/25

Musician and composer Terence Blanchard is a two-time Academy Award nominee for his work with Spike Lee, and a seven-time Grammy winner for his jazz albums and soundtracks. He's played trumpet and piano with Lionel Hampton as well as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and ha...

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AV Geeks

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2023/05/11

Skip Elsheimer has filled up a ten-bedroom house in his hometown of Raleigh with his collection of 30,000 16mm films, which he screens online for viewers every weekday. His channel, AV Geeks, celebrates all the earnestness and weirdness of 20th-century educational and i...

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Animator Nancy Beiman - Part Two

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2023/04/27

Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979 became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts' Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women artists ever since. As a young animator in th...

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Northwest Documentaries

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2023/04/13

Seattle-based documentarian John de Graaf came to prominence with the film and book series Affluenza, a critique of the consumerism and materialism that plagues American communities and the global environment. He’s now the Executive Director of Take Back Your Time and c...

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