In addition to hosting the "Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio" exhibition, the Portland Art Museum has scheduled screenings and other events connected to the Portland-made, Oscar-winning animated feature.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will participate in a public conversation at the Portland Art Museum June 23, as part of events surrounding the exhibition, "Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio," which opens June 10.
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The Portland Art Museum's rebrand of the Northwest Film Center this past spring—to PAM CUT or (deep breath) the Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow—was met with a fair amount of head scratching and eye rolling at the time, in spite of the organization's laudable goals. And as a result, the center's once regular schedule of repertory screenings have been replaced by experiences and events that, through judicious use of technology like VR.
The Portland Art Museum (PAM)'s Northwest Film Center begins a new chapter this week, as it takes on a new name and progresses towards the realization of a vision several years in the making. Newly dubbed the PAM's Center for an Untold Tomorrow (CUT), the PAM CUT signals the institution's movement towards new mediums, partnerships outside Portland, and gestures vaguely. Not to knock it, but it's unknown. And that's the whole point. "I think anyone.