Poppa Neutrino, the family patriarch, believes that 'rent is the thing that beats us.' His quest was about pure freedom for himself, wife Betsy, and the five children they raised on the road. His
philosophy is based on the notion of nurturing a triad of heart's desires; if you dream them, you can have them. The family taught themselves how to play Dixieland jazz, and managed to eke out a living playing on the streets as they roamed the world from Mexico to Moscow. They slept in cars, old trucks, on empty beaches. Adventures included a stint with a
Mexican circus, and with an ingenuity bordering on genius, building rafts from scraps of junk that they then would live aboard. For twenty years, the family
documented itself with an old HI-8 camera, capturing an astonishingly intimate portrait of survival outside
of conventional society, in a self-created alternate universe with a value system all its own.

Director Q & A to follow screening!

"Like the early works
of John Waters"
Jon Lewis - Cinema Journal

There's a new family in the town of
Lydiaville. The Griepers, rich off Methuseleh's television ministry, move into the house on the hill
and the Cosgraves are not too happy about it. Meanwhile, the Cosgraves' arch enemies, the
Montgomerys, have lost their entire fortune and a Turkish gangster is after an old debt owed by
patriarch Barry. These three warring clans fight dirty. Palace of Stains has a cast of 56 and was shot in one day.

Director Bob Moricz will be in attendance for Q and A
after Palace of Stains.

Aalto Lounge @ 34th and Belmont. Sponsored by New Deal Vodka.

Your opening night ticket gets you a free Vodka Drink from New Deal.

Special Live Performance
by Laz-D

Director Jensen Rufe in
attendence for Q and A.

A documentary focusing on the fabulous music scene of
Eureka/Humboldt County, CA. A film about grass-roots, do-it-yourself music/video underground aesthetic. Homemade rock and roll. Rock and roll lore. The vast
wasteland/ghost town of unknown genius bands and fascinating rock and roll stories that have existed in
the past, that exist now, and that will continue t exist anonymously in the future.

After Party at Slabtown with the following bands from the film playing live: The Lowlights, The Ravens, The Broken Hearts, (and locals Pure Country Gold).

Portland Bike Porn: The Filthiest Bike Movies from the Portland Underground.

After the screening, go on a mystery ride, and end up
at the Secret Party, with Free New Deal Vodka Drinks!

Jack Gibson (Loser of Colorballs) returns with a gripping new masterpiece. When Mr. Wiley sends a box of memories to Los Angeles, the residents of Georgetown, Texas begin to travel in time.

Director Jack Gibson in attendance for Q and A.

Plays along with the short film:

"Birthday"
a Film by Christopher Blauvelt

Birthday is the story of a lonely guy coexisting with an unlikely friend.

BUMP AND GRIND
Ian Sundahl - 14mins - 16MM
Sin on a screen, a vision obscured, beauty revealed.

A VERY SUNNY MORNING
Eric Carter - 12mins
An experimental surrealistic comedy about one man's relationship; his relationship with his girl, his breakfast, his television set, his self, and to reality. Or is it?

TWITCH
Leah Meyerhoff - 10mins
Twitch tells the poignant story of a young girl torn between two worlds: her domestic life where
she must care for her wheelchair-bound mother and her escape into the emerging world of sexuality with her eager, hormone-addled boyfriend.

TEAM QUEEN
Leah Meyerhoff - 3mins
You are cordially invited to a
gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock 'n roll prom!

MARKO POTATOVI
Aaron Oldenburg - 5:41 mins
A 3D animation of a conversation between former President
of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic and his son regarding plastic surgery. Based on an actual conversation
recorded by Croatian intelligence agents and reprinted in Harper's Magazine, December 2003, translated by Tanja Bosak.

RING! RING!
Arman Bohn - 9:32 mins
A story inspired by my doorbell. Mysterious gifts are delivered at
opportune moments.

WESTSIDER
Charles Doran - 19:58 mins
About an energetic and ambitious young man in his early-mid 20s who has just received his Masters in Architecture. After living and working on the "Westside" (that is to say, the better parts of Santa
Monica, Malibu, West LA, Marina del Rey, etc.) for the past few years he has come to the realization that the
only areas in life that he is willing to exist in are his imaginary boundary lines of "the westside."

Clive, Eddie, Sammy, Tracey, Gomer and Adrian , a close-knit group of “headbanging” friends all have an equal passion for Heavy Metal music, partying and
experimenting with the occult and supernatural. When the mutilated body of murdered 12 year-old Mikey Gay (brother of the Hellrats’ feared, trouble-making gang-leader Vinny) surfaces in Sammy’s “Satanic Enshrined” bedroom, all six become prime suspects in
the murder. Did one of the six teenagers take their interests in
Black Magic a little too far? Or was Mikey murdered at the hands of someone else? This coming of age tale represents a different side of
the 80’s that has never been chronicled until now...

Based on his true story,
Sam served on a Mission in the Philippines and returned early to the U.S. in 2004, with uncited
diseases. The doctors unaware couldn't detect anything in the blood work and calling Sam a faker claimed the problem was all in his head. Shunned by his family,
and community, he took off on a bike trip from Portland to San Francisco to find the answers to why his life was falling apart, and to find out the truth about whether the one woman he loved really loved him. A heart warming film by first time Director Samuel Adams, about his spiritual journey to find meaning in his life, during a time of great tribulation.

Todd E. Freeman in attendance for Q and A after the screening.

Philip Lowe is in prison for killing his sister Nicole and raping her dead body. "Reynard..."
-- the name is taken from a character in a medieval morality play with whom Philip identifies -- is a four day series of jail interviews between an unrepentant, aggressive and subtly menacing Philip and a minister more interested in researching the mind of this troubled killer than in saving his soul.

A New Orleans native explores
the true meaning of Mardi Gras as the city holds its first Carnival after "the unpleasantness."

Director Q & A to follow screening!

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