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Lovely piece by Vanessa discussing the Portrait Series, which focuses on Northwest sense of place and accompanying music. Scroll down to the Filmmaker Focus on the Ann Arbor Film Festival page.
Some of you may've been fortunate enough to see a screening one piece from the series, about the House of Sound formerly in North Portland, at our Light & Shadows event. Happy reading to you.
Projekt Records releases Atlan, a melodic and lush CD by Portland’s innovative Tuvan throat singer
Soriah in collaboration with Ashkelon Sain.
by Tiffany Lee Brown
It’s been a busy year for Soriah. The solo project of
Enrique Ugalde, a Mexican-American throat singer and ritual performer, combines
his mastery of the khoomei Tuvan throat
singing tradition with contemporary Western influences from noise to Goth. He
received international awards in khoomei, finished his latest album, and signed to the long-standing
independent record label Projekt.
The Atlan record release party happens August 21 at the Someday Lounge in Portland, Oregon.
The new sound of Atlan
“Atlan is a contrast to my last album,” says Ugalde, “which was pure power noise, very intense and very harsh. Atlan is an evolution...
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AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION WITH THREE PORTLAND FILMMAKERS
HOST NORA ROBERTSON WITH ARTHUR BRADFORD, ALISSA NICOLE CREAMER AND ANDY BLUBAUGH
The New Oregon Interview Series brought three prominent filmmakers together for an evening of intimate conversation. MTV’s How’s Your News? creator Arthur Bradford, experimental filmmaker Andy Blubaugh and cultural/human interest documentary-maker Alissa Nicole Creamer sat down to discuss their work and how our film culture is evolving on July 29th at Urban Grind East. A director and Sundance alumnus, Blubaugh’s experimental short films have screened at over a hundred film festivals worldwide and he was named as one of Filmmaker magazine’s 2007 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Debuting her first feature, NEVER TO CRY, with Barcelona’s TV3-Catalunya, Alissa Nicole Creamer has made numerous short-format documentary projects for NGOs in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and South America. Author of Dogwalker and an O. Henry Award recipient, Arthur Bradford’s feature film How's Your News? about adults with disabilities conducting man-on-the-street interviews was broadcast on HBO, PBS, and the British Channel 4 before an MTV series based on the documentary aired in 2009.The Oregonian's Barry Johnson remarked in Portland Art Watch "at this point, we don't know whether we're headed back where we left off 18 months ago or whether we're going somewhere completely new. That question is at the center of the New Oregon Interview Series."
