Screening - Portland Panorama

Screening of PONYHOF at Portland Panorama
Cinema 21
16 April 2025
4pm

Information here and more about the festival here.

PONYHOF (6 minutes, 2024)
Directed by Roland Dahwen
Starring Halle Frost

Life is not a pony farm. One day, we visit a hospital. Another day, we sit in our kitchen and listen to recordings of birds that our friend sends us, or a poem they read aloud. The wars do not cease. We do not cease them. What else do the waters contain, what else is on the other side of our enclosures.

still courtesy of Patuá Films

Exhibition - Outer Voice: Trajectories

March 28 - April 27, 2025
Oregon Contemporary

Information here.

Group exhibition

Outer Voice: Trajectories
Julia Calabrese
Roland Dahwen
Marcus Fischer
Bridgette Hickey
Leslie Hickey
KT Kusmaul
Sarah Rushford
Ash Stone

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About THE HOUSE OF ASTERION (ASTERION HOUSETOUR)
Roland Dahwen
5 minutes, color, 2025.

«I pretend that he comes to visit me and I show him my house.»

In the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, the hero Theseus kills the Minotaur (a beast with the body of a man and the head of a bull). The Minotaur lives in a labyrinth, which Theseus navigates with the help of a ball of thread, given to him by the princess Ariadne.

This film imagines the Minotaur (named Asterion), giving a tour of his house, where he passes his days in solitude, awaiting his Redeemer.

Based on the story «La casa de Asterión» by Jorge Luis Borges. Adapted and translated by Roland Dahwen. Camera by Halle Frost. Music by Shao Way Wu and Randy Porter.

Screening - Boathouse Microcinema

Boathouse Microcinema - 12 March 2025

Assembly Cut: A Group Screening

Information here

Experimental video and film can take on many forms and mean different things to different people. For our first screening since 2019, we are surveying a wide range of experiments – from glitch art, to music video, to narrative short, to durational, and more. Perhaps the intertwining videos will contradict each other, perhaps they will inform each other. Tonight’s filmmakers are a disparate bunch, each with their own unique voice.

Program Includes:
Roland Dahwen – Las Vegas, Y La Bamba “Rios Sueltos” music video
Leslie Hickey – Phone / Memory
Lily King – November 20, 2024
Brandon Marcoux and Mariana Mora – Two Fernand Rudolph music videos
Matthew Nash – Leaving it Behind
Kai Nealis – Queen
Sarah Turner – But… You’re a Dolphin