Gail Noonan's short films celebrate human relations and the natural
world with a sweeping range of artistic techniques, from collage to
stop-motion animation. Her work cuts against the grain with humor and
heart, tackling themes of justice and liberation, poetry and sex...
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In this extended conversation with animator Gail Noonan, S.W. Conser asks
about the early artistic adventures with the Winnipeg Film Group that helped
spark Gail's four-decade-long career in the world of Canadian independent
film and led to her recent retrospective at Po...
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As winter drizzles on, there are two golden opportunities this month to get
out and see the world without leaving Oregon: the Cascade Festival of
African Films and the Portland International Film Festival.
Ben Popp has been gathering together regional filmmakers for the ...
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Portland author Chuck Palahniuk is the most restless of literary lions,
reinventing himself with each book, alternately dazzling and bedeviling his
readership. With Legacy, his latest coloring book / novella hybrid,
Palahniuk dives further into visual storytelling, crea...
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Tom Gauld is best known to Americans for his droll and iconic cartoons in The
New Yorker and The Guardian where literature and mythology get mashed up
with pop culture. But he's also the author of such imaginative graphic
novels as Goliath, Hunter and Painter, and The G...
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In the early 1960's a revolution in documentary filmmaking took root,
inspired by both cultural uprisings and new audio-visual technologies.
The movement known as Direct Cinema rejected authorial voiceovers and
other narrative devices, opting instead for immediacy, ambi...
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Words and Pictures kicks off its fifteenth season on the air at the Wordstock
Literary Festival, where we're joined by graphic novelist Gabrielle Bell.
Best known for her diary comics Lucky and The Voyeurs, Gabrielle has also
teamed up with filmmaker Michel Gondry to cr...
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From its humble beginnings as Will Vinton Studios in the 1970's, Portland's
Laika Entertainment has become one of the top studios in the world for
stop-motion animation, producing the feature films Coraline, Paranorman, The
Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Now,...
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In this expanded version of our visit to the Portland Art Museum, we take a
more leisurely look at the exhibition Animating Life: The Art, Science, and
Wonder of Laika.
Join host S.W. Conser, and find out about the creative process behind the
screen from Laika creatives...
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