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5th Avenue Cinema Presents Experimental Plantlife, A Collection of 16mm Shorts From Canyon Cinema with Live Improvised Film Scores

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Film Screening Free Open to everyone

Sat, Aug 22, 2026

6 PM – 7:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)

5th Avenue Cinema

510 SW Hall, Portland , OR 97201, United States

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5th Ave Cinema presents "Experimental Plantlife”: a collection of 16mm shorts selected from Canyon Cinema. Each night will feature live improvised film scores set to the collection, transporting the audience auditorially and electronically, bound by nature and deeply fixed within the visual illustrations of Barbara Hammer, James Otis, Jodie Mack, Oskar Fischinger and Mary Beth Reed. Spanning nearly a century, this collection of 16mm shorts features prints from the 1920s through to the 2010s, moving through all manner of landscapes, nature and plantlife, finding shapes and melting emulations within the material and natural world. Reflections of “shimmering life in flexible time, an antenna alert to whose vibrations?”

Each screening will feature a live, improvised score from a local artist.

8/21: Warm Static & Freeways

8/22: Pyrethrum

8/23: Talking Contest

This program will feature films with flashing effects, and may not be appropriate for photosensitive viewers.

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5th Avenue Cinema

510 SW Hall, Portland , OR 97201, United States

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