Upcoming Events

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Thurs May 2, 6-8pm - Chess & Jazz club - Chess playing and jazz listening, open to all skill levels. Free herbal tea. Every first & third Thursday of the month.

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Fri May 3 - OPEN SCREEN v.5 - No Name Cinema's 5th bi-annual Open Screen event! A night of films and videos by local artists working in experimental, documentary, animation and personal filmmaking!  Every filmmaker will be in attendance for the event & many of the works will be publicly screened for the first time ever!  Featuring the works of Susan DeLeo, Matt McAuliffe, Chancey Marler, Jamie Hamilton, Adrian Pijoan, Justin Rhody & Zak Marmalefsky, Alison Johnson, Paris Mancini, Ezra Mizrahi, Nina Sammons, Adrian Ennis, Matthew David Cannella, Helen Galioto, and Luna Galassini.

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Thurs May 16, 6-8pm - Chess & Jazz club - Chess playing and jazz listening, open to all skill levels. Free herbal tea. Every first & third Thursday of the month.

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Sat May 18 - COURTNEY STEPHENS (in person!) presents live archival film lecture-performance Terra Femme ~ "Terra Femme is an essay film comprised of amateur travelogues filmed by women in the 1920s-1950s.  The piece weaves between geographical essay, personal inquiry, and historical speculation, examining these films as both private documents and accidental ethnographies.  The films present a new type of traveler: no longer a male seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, or a widow on a cruise to the North Pole.  Representing the world through women’s eyes, the films raise questions about female representation in the archive, the role of amateurism in early non-fiction filmmaking, and the politics of the Western gaze.  At once a film about longing for past worlds through cinematic excavation, this force flows in both directions: as women from the past search for self-making in the act of looking." -LightDox, with opening short Ida Western Exile (2014, color and b/w, sound, 9 min) "Using the framework of O’Keeffe’s iconic sojourn to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, where she lived alone in the latter part of her life and created desert-inspired masterworks, Stephens explores what this sort of elective isolation might look like for a woman living in today’s world of information overload....  Familiar images of O’Keeffe on the ranch are accompanied by an anonymous woman’s tightly-wound phone calls with customer service representatives from places like Expedia and Starkist as she plans a trip alone out west, wondering about everything from mercury levels in tuna to weapons she’ll need for self-defense....  Ghost Ranch was itself the site of several late Westerns, including Silverado and Cowboys vs. Aliens. Here, the American West’s reputation for masculine adventure and reinvention is re-envisioned through Stephens’s eyes as space for female exploration and escape. There’s a tension, however, between this pull toward oblivion, and the knowledge of the inherent risk involved in traveling alone as a woman. These phone calls reveal one woman’s conflicting hopes and fears as she prepares to embark on a journey. It’s unclear whether it’s real, or simply a fantasy of finding one’s own agency in the vast expanses of unfamiliar territory." -Le Cinema Club

 (filmmaker in attendance from Los Angeles  +  post-screening Q&A!)

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Fri June 7 - MOTORAMA (directed by Barry Shils, 1991, 93 mins) - A ten year-old boy runs away from his abusive parents, steals a Mustang, plays a promotional card game sold at gas stations, and travels throughout a fictional landscape in this obscure, absurdist, post-Americana road movie.

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Fri June 21 - ROBERT FRANK centennial celebration

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JULY (exact date TBA) - SHE FREAK (Directed by Byron Mabe, 1967, Color, Sound, 83 mins) - The carnival has come to town and we're celebrating with an essential weirdo classic!  "A gutter-noir reworking of Tod Browning’s FREAKS and a valentine to the carnival lifestyle that defined the career of producer David F. Friedman (BLOOD FEAST), SHE FREAK is a snapshot of life, love, and revenge on the grounds of a seedy carnival in Smalltown, USA -- complete with crackpot monster make-up effects from Harry Thomas (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE).  Fed up with waitressing, Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen) embarks on a new life with a traveling carnival. But she discovers that what lurks behind the curtain doesn’t take too kindly to her backstabbing plans." -American Genre Film Archive  (Presented as a 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative.)

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JULY (exact date TBA) - DOMINICK RIVERS short films & NNC 16mm SHOWCASE - No Name Cinema's inaugural artist-in-residence (!) presents a night of his work in small gauge film and video, alongside a selection of 16mm prints from NNC's growing film library/archive.  (filmmaker in attendance from Indiana  +  post-screening Q&A  +  presented on VHS and 16mm film!)

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JULY (exact date TBA) - Mordançage Workshop led by No Name Cinema's inaugural artist-in-residence, Dominick Rivers.  All materials provided.  Sliding-scale workshop fees.

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FALL (exact date TBA) - GUY MADDIN short films

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Nov (exact date TBA) - OPEN SCREEN v.6 - (Open to all local artists/filmmakers working in experimental, personal, animation and/or non-fiction filmmaking.  Maximum one submission per person, 15 mins or less.)

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WINTER (exact date TBA) - RANKIN RENWICK short films - (filmmaker in attendance from Portland Oregon + post-screening Q&A)