Written By Garrett Recker During PIFF’s 43rd year, seven collections of shorts were scheduled each with a different approach to an overarching, unifying theme. For the second shorts program, the title was “Chronicles.” The program housed six curated pieces (Remembrance, The Deepest Hole, Transmissions of Unwanted Pasts, The Marshal’s Two Executions, We Only Answer OurContinue reading “Dealing with Erasure: PIFF’s Shorts Program Number Two”
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“4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” Le gagnant de la Palme D’or, 2007
By Hannah Cumming The Cannes Film Festival has always valued the showcasing of politically provocative cinema, as well as international New Wave films. This was the case at the fest in 2007, when the controversial Romanian New Wave film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days took home the highest honor. Like many filmic movements,Continue reading ““4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” Le gagnant de la Palme D’or, 2007″
Zed’s Dead Babe and Frank too
In film there are certain guidelines that make up a genre, these guidelines can be followed religiously or they can be molded into something completely different. For the film Frank and Zed which features of elements of horror, gore and comedy the latter is true. This fever dream of a film exclusively starring puppets asContinue reading “Zed’s Dead Babe and Frank too”
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue is the Warmest Color was the winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 2013. A French film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, himself Tunisian, the movie depicts a young woman discovering the ways of life and of relationships, and who is also on a journey of realizing her own sexuality. Far from relying onContinue reading “Blue is the Warmest Color”
4, 3, 2: The Suffocating Art of Immersion
Charlie Faulkner Blog Post 2 (Substitute Assignment For 2nd PIFF screening) The Palme d’Or is the highest prize possible at the Cannes film festival, and with such a title, there is an establishment of a great deal of prestige and symbolic capital gained from receiving the award. In the theroizations of Pierre Bourdieu, “festivals [suchContinue reading “4, 3, 2: The Suffocating Art of Immersion”
PiFf 43: Excavating life in Denmark with “Giraffe”
Matthew Eugene Hunsucker March 16th 2020 Reporting on PIFF 43: Giraffe for Prof. Kristin Hole Film Festival studies class @ PSU “In general, while the A-list festivals evoke the classic bourgeois public sphere, with fissures of contradictions and counterpublics erupting from time to time, alternative film festival organizers and participants often see themselves as explicitlyContinue reading “PiFf 43: Excavating life in Denmark with “Giraffe””
PiFf 43: Getting to know “Frank and Zed”
Matthew Eugene Hunsucker March 16th 2020 Reporting on PIFF 43: Frank and Zed for Prof. Kristin Hole Film Festival studies class @ PSU At the world premiere of Frank and Zed, at the Portland International Film Festival 43 (PIFF43). We got to see the hard work director Jesse Blanchard and the rest of his teamContinue reading “PiFf 43: Getting to know “Frank and Zed””
Festival Report
Charlie Faulkner Film Festivals Kristen Hole 16 March 2020 Ever Evolving: PIFF Adapts to The Future of Festivals Programming for an International Festival poses many challenges and requires a great deal of intentionality and effort. With many considerations at play, it is one that requires a keen team that is up to such a taskContinue reading “Festival Report”
State Funeral
Nicholas Jamison FILM 486 Prof. Kristin Hole 16 March 2020 State Funeral Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral takes the form of a ‘city symphony’ of people in the aftermath of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s death. With no original footage, the film is comprised entirely of archival footage and audio recordings of the massive and ritualistic exerciseContinue reading “State Funeral”
Atlantis
Nicholas Jamison FILM 486 Prof. Kristin Hole 16 March 2020 Set in 2025, one year after the end of ‘The War’ — presumably the current conflict in eastern Ukraine that further escalates in the near-future — Valentyn Vasyanovych’s film Atlantis follows former soldier Sergiy as he copes with PTSD whilst transitioning back to civilian life. Continue reading “Atlantis”
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