Words and Pictures

  The Gorge Impact Film Festival is an environmentally-themed event that's making its premiere this November in Hood River, Oregon, featuring independent films, speakers, and workshops. S.W. Conser previews the festival with three of its organizers.  Alan Hickenbottom is ... Read more

  Portland's reputation as a hub for independent animation gains new stature in a documentary from British filmmaker Martin Cooper.  In History, Mystery, and Odyssey, Martin profiles six iconic Portland animators: Rose Bond, Chel White, Joanna Priestley, Jim Blashfield, Jo... Read more

  In this extended conversation with British filmmaker Martin Cooper and independent animators Rose Bond, Joanna Priestley, and Joan Gratz, we take a deeper dive into Portland's reputation as a hub for independent animation. History, Mystery, and Odyssey is Martin's most ... Read more

  The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology has been touring the world for over a decade as the International Festival of Cinema and Technology.  Now it's come home to Portland as a four-day event that will be taking place at the Oregon Museum of Science an... Read more

  What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded?  That's the question asked in 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021.  Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p... Read more

  In this episode of Words and Pictures from May of 2012, we revisit Alison Bechdel, creator of the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? Alison may be best known for the “Bechdel Test,” which orig... Read more

  The Portland Art Museum's new exhibition "Crafting Pinocchio" takes visitors inside the world of Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning version of Pinocchio, created largely in Portland with local stop-motion animators. Pinocchio Co-Director Mark Gustafson and Animat... Read more

  Musician and composer Terence Blanchard is a two-time Academy Award nominee for his work with Spike Lee, and a seven-time Grammy winner for his jazz albums and soundtracks.  He's played trumpet and piano with Lionel Hampton as well as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and ha... Read more

  Skip Elsheimer has filled up a ten-bedroom house in his hometown of Raleigh with his collection of 30,000 16mm films, which he screens online for viewers every weekday.  His channel, AV Geeks, celebrates all the earnestness and weirdness of 20th-century educational and i... Read more

  Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979 became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts' Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women artists ever since. As a young animator in th... Read more