When Portland filmmaker Ali Godil was working on his short film, the close-to-home Americanistan, he didn’t expect to immortalize the final days of one of the area’s most iconic institutions: a McDonald's on Swan Island. “We filmed out front, the workers didn’t care,” Godil told the Mercury. “A month later that McDonald’s shut down.” The front of a McDonald's may not sound like the most exciting place for a shoot, but Godil said he choose.
On the last day of Alberta Poon and Katie Nguyen's shoot, for their short film Crouching Comic, the sky began to rain ash. “I don’t know if it was Mother Nature being like, 'We don’t want this film, we don’t want your story,'" Poon, the film's director and co-writer, said. "But it was quite the experience. Looking back on it is kind of funny, and it's a good story, but. god damn.” As the cast.
Spring has sprung, and with it comes an exciting batch of events that will get you cultured and out to enjoy the weather. From the return of the smash hit musical Hamilton to the AAPI-centered film Crouching Comic and from TEDxPortland to Tyler, The Creator, we’ve rounded up 30 of the most anticipated arts and culture events that are happening this season. COMEDY Chelsea Handler: Vaccinated and Horny Tour The raunchy comic has done her.
When you watch an Alberta Poon film, the first thing you notice is the color. The hypercolorful, vivid palette of amethyst, shimmery coral and lime green of her short film It s Lit has the aesthetic of a stoner Lisa Frank sticker book, while a satirical PSA that she directed for protest support group Snack Bloc has a bold palette of royal purple, goldenrod and ruby. The first thing Poon notices is the lighting. Poon is a self-described mood-slash-light psycho. On her first date with her boyfriend, the pair were hanging out in a hotel room lit by a lamp with an LED light bulb.
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