JAN 9 SAT 4:30 PM
DREAM WEAVERS:
BEIJING 2008
CHINA 2008
DIRECTOR: JUN GU
Five stories are interwoven in this Chinese Oscar submission, a rare documentary about the effect of the Beijing Olympics on disparate groups of people around the city.. (94 mins.) Admission is free for Portland Art Museum members or with admission ticket to “China Design Now,” on view until January 17.
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Time:
4:00pm-5:25pm
Location:
Whitsell Auditorium
Description:
JAN 9 SAT 7 PM
MIGHTY UKE-
CANADA 2009
DIRECTOR: TONY COLEMAN
MIGHTY UKE traces the history and resurgence of that most maligned instrument, the ukelele, which is currently enjoying somewhat of a renaissance. The film shows the power of music to transcend musical, cultural and time-based borders as people from around the world, all ages and creeds,bow down to the power of the Almighty Uke. (85 mins.) After the film stay for live uke with members of the Portland Ukulele Association.
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Time:
6:10pm-7:38pm
Location:
Whitsell Auditorium
Description:
JAN 8 9 FRI 9:15 PM, SAT 9:15 PM
ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS - US 2009
DIRECTORS: BRENDAN CANTY, CHRISTOPH GREEN
Canty,of Fugazi and Green, both behind the BURN TO SHINE series, offer this rambling, intimate travelogue of Wilco’s 2008 tour, offering fiery performances and quietly revealing interviews interspersed with breathtaking landscape footage, capturing one of the most consistently fascinating and idiosyncratic rock bands at work today, doing what they do best. (88 mins.)
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