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HIGHLIGHTSTHE ARTS OF WUSHUCinema Pacific Film Festival and the UO Confucius Institute are joining forces to introduce audiences to The Arts of Wushu, the martial arts of China. The film festival will explore the classic mar-tial arts film genre popularly known as the wuxia film. Along with the UO Wushu Club, we will also be bringing Master Hu Jianqiang, the highest-ranking Wushu master in the West, for a special mar-tial arts exhibition titled Masters of Chinese Martial Arts on May 3.

Daniel Wu, BA March ’97, the Chinese film star and producer, founded the UO Wushu Club and was its first instructor. Now he is developing projects like Tai Chi Zero that are rejuvenating the classic wuxia genre of heroic swordplay and sorcery. Wu will join us via Skype following a screening of Tai Chi Zero.

Building up to that program will be a series of wuxia film milestones, from King Hu’s A Touch of Zen (1971) to Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China (1991), through Ang Lee’s Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Jia Zhang-ke’s A Touch of Sin. Yanhong Zhu of Washington and Lee University and Kin-Yan Szeto from Appalachian State University will be on hand to discuss developments in the wuxia genre after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

FOCUS: THE PHILIPPINESA New Filipino Cinema is exciting audiences at festivals around the world, and we’re pleased to screen works by three of its leading directors. Norte, The End of History is Lav Diaz’s con-temporary adaptation of Crime and Punishment. Raya Martin is a great experimenter with cinematic forms, and his comedic La Ultima Pelicula addresses the death of both Mayan civili-zation and the film medium. Hannah Espia’s Transit tells inter-twined stories of Filipino guest workers in Israel.

We are especially honored to host the director considered to be the father of the new Filipino cinema, Kidlat Tahimik. Tahimik spent 35 years making Balikbayan #1, which just won the Caligari Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Tahimik also will present his 1977 feature, The Perfumed Nightmare and give a live performance at the Fringe Festival on May 2. Tahimik’s visit is supported by a generous gift from Mark and Joy Gall.

THE FRINGE FESTIVALSee interactive media installations, learn wushu moves, play new computer games, view art, and taste Filipino food at the Fringe Festival multimedia extravaganza at the JSMA on May 2, 7:30–11:00 p.m. You’ll be treated to interactive media installa-tions by Violet Ray, Jonas Mekas, John Park, and

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UO Digital Arts students. Learn martial arts moves from the UO Wushu Club, and perform them in the Wushu photo booth. Play new computer games designed by Portland’s Mountain Machine Studios and by animator Joanna Priestley, and attend presentations by the artists. See winning video remixes of the wuxia martial arts classic A Touch of Zen, then dance and sing in The Manny Pacquiao Karaoke Bar and Dance Club.. There will be a no-host bar.

On Friday, May 1, experience a free preview of the Fringe Festival at “Fringe Friday” in the Broadway Commerce Center from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL MEDIAJonas Mekas is considered by many to be the godfather of American avant-garde film. Mekas’s Frozen Film Frames exhibition, on view at the JSMA through June 7, includes 22 of Mekas’s portraits of filmmak-ers including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elia Kazan, Andy Warhol, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono filming their experimental film “Bottoms.”

Scott MacDonald is the author of books and works of criticism on avant-garde films. On April 29, he will show Mekas’s film Walden (Part One) and talk about Mekas and film portraiture. The following day, MacDonald will present Avant-Gardens: Landscape in Experimental Film, including four short films by Kenneth Anger, Larry Gottheim, Peter Hutton, and Rose Lowder.

OREGONIANS MAKING MEDIATwo new documentaries by Oregon filmmakers revolve around Oregon’s rivers. Mending the Line tells the story of legendary Umpqua River fly fish-erman Frank Moore, who will join director Steve Engman at the Bijou on May 2. The following day, former Republican legislator, now environmental activist Jason Atkinson will join codirector Jeff Martin in presenting their account of the water rights battles around the Klamath River in the film A River Between Us.

UO Sociology Professor Michael Dreiling will preview his work-in-progress A Bold Peace, on the impact of Costa Rica’s radical choice of national disarmament. Another UO Professor, Daniel Miller, will premiere two short films on the influence of pioneering Oregon documentary filmmaker James Blue on April 28.

Finally, Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas will show their acclaimed feature film, shot in Africa, Tall as the Baobab Tree, along with a brief illustrated presentation on their work-in-progress, Tracktown, filmed in Eugene.

THE ADRENALINE FILM PROJECT AND MORE!The Adrenaline Film Project is the hyperkinetic 72-hour film workshop culminating in a raucous public screening, awards ceremony, and after party, sponsored by Ben Kalb and Sizzle Pie. See the films on April 27 following the Oregon premiere of Bad Exorcists, a feature-length come-dic horror film made by Adrenaline alumnus Kyle Steinbach (UO ’11).

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MONDAY, APRIL 27

BAD EXORCISTSWITH KYLE STEINBACH, ZACH SHIVERS, COLLIN DAVIS, AND MORE SPECIAL GUESTS

6:30 p.m. • 145 Straub Hall on the University of Oregon campus

(U.S., 2015, 85 min.) Kyle Steinbach (UO ’11), aided by a talented crew with many Cinema

Pacific Adrenaline Film Project alumni, directs this impressive comedy. The film fol-lows three uncool high school friends, Charlie, Matt, and Dana. In a

last-ditch effort to earn their classmates’ respect, the trio aims to win the local horror film festival. Things might finally be going their way—until their attempt to film an exorcism scene results in the demonic possession of their lead actress.

ADRENALINE FILM PROJECT SCREENING AND AFTERPARTYHOSTED BY JEFF WADLOW, LEIGH KILTON-SMITH, AND OMAR NAIM

9:15 p.m. • 156 Straub Hall on the University of Oregon campus

Come see the results of Eugene’s sixth Adrenaline Film Project. Guided by professional mentors, 12 filmmaker teams pitched, wrote, shot, and edited their films in a 72-hour period. A jury of film pro-fessionals will award one film the top prize, the Kalb Award, and we will announce the winners of the Audience Choice Award and the Mentors Award. Your ticket will get you into the Adrenaline Afterparty, with music and refreshments in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Ballroom.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

A TOUCH OF ZEN7:00 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(Taiwan, 1971, 200 min.) A globally acclaimed

classic of the wuxia genre, A Touch of Zen is an epic masterpiece that centers on a somewhat clumsy intellectual who becomes embroiled in a plot to save a female fugitive from execution. The situation calls for some of the most brilliantly cho-reographed fight scenes in the history of cinema. King Hu’s film was a major influence on such directors as Tsui Hark and Ang Lee, director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29THE FILMS OF JAMES BLUE: UO AND BEYOND4:00 p.m. • Free • Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Ford Lecture Room

In celebration of the deposit of the James Blue Archive at UO Special Collections, we are pleased to present a rare find: Blue’s 40-minute 8 mm par-ody of Hamlet, with a cast and crew of UO Drama students and friends, filmed in 1951-52. Blue’s Hamlet was a huge sensation when it screened to an audience of more than 2,000 in the UO Student Union ballroom. Also on the program is a new documentary produced by Daniel Miller and Krysta Maksim titled Making the Invisible Visible: The Life and Art of James Blue. It is cosponsored with the James and Richard Blue Foundation.

JONAS MEKAS’S WALDENWITH GUEST SPEAKER DR. SCOTT MACDONALD

7:00 p.m. • Free • Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Ford Lecture Room

Walden was Jonas Mekas’s first diary film, gath-ered between the years 1964 and 1969. Critic Yann Beauvais wrote, “Jonas Mekas’s films cele-brate life. They rise up against the world’s over-whelming commercialism, attempting instead to revive the pleasures of friendship, a first snowfall or the return of spring. Mekas’s genius stems from his generously including the viewer in his vision of the world, allowing us to (re)discover, in a simple image, the incredible force and necessity of poetry.”

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA8:00 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(China, 1991, 134 min.) Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China revitalized the wuxia genre and became one of the defining martial arts movies of the twentieth century. Combining epic kung fu action, political allegory, and historical drama, Once Upon a Time in China became an interna-tional hit and won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Picture. Martial arts superstar Jet Li took on the role of legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei Hung, and reprised the role in four sequels.

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

AVANT-GARDENS: LANDSCAPE IN EXPERIMENTAL FILMFOUR SHORT FILMS PRESENTED BY DR. SCOTT MACDONALD

3:30 p.m. • Free • PLC 180 on the University of Oregon campus

Scott MacDonald is the nation’s leading scholar and explicator of avant-garde film. He wrote numerous books and works of criticism, includ-ing The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films About Place. MacDonald will screen and discuss four extraordinary films: Eaux D’Artifice (Kenneth Anger, 15 min.), Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 11 min.), Time and Tide (Peter Hutton, 35 min.), and Impromptu (Rose Lowder, 8 min.). McDonald will show how these and other avant-garde films explore and chal-lenge the modes by which people interact with and perceive landscapes, creating opportunities for fresh insight and more meaningful engage-ment with the environment.

TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREEWITH JEREMY TEICHER, ALEXI PAPPAS, AND JAY SMITH

6:45 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(U.S., 2013, 82 min.) Coumba and her little sister Debo are the first to leave their family’s remote

African village, where meals are prepared over open fires and water is drawn from wells, to attend school in the bustling city. But when an accident suddenly threatens their family’s sur-vival, their father decides to sell 11-year-old Debo into an arranged marriage. This first feature of filmmakers Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas deviates from stereotypical depictions of Africa to create a beautiful piece of work that has been acclaimed at festivals worldwide.

A TOUCH OF SIN9:15 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(China, 2013, 133 min.) With its clever

title alluding to the classic wuxia masterpiece A Touch of Zen, A Touch of Sin is the latest work of acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke (Still Life, The World ). Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film tells four simultaneous stories centered on a different char-acter. Chris Cabin of Slant Magazine reports, “In the filmmaker’s China, one can find work and money but only through rootlessness and ruth-lessness, and the violence that erupts throughout A Touch of Sin works as a return of the repressed.”

FRIDAY, MAY 1

WUXIA CINEMA AFTER CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGONA TALK BY DR. KIN-YAN SZETO

3:00 p.m. • Free • Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

The wuxia genre had attracted great interest and investment in China when Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) became an interna-tional box-office hit and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This presenta-tion will look at how wuxia films made after 2000 navigate the demands of commercial entertain-ment and the promotion of Chinese culture and nationalism. Dr. Kin-Yan Szeto, associate pro-fessor in the Department of Theater and Dance

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Monday, April 27 Tuesday, April 28 Wednesday, April 29 Thursday, April 30 Friday, May 1 Saturday, May 2 Sunday, May 3

11:00 a.m. NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY (11:00 a.m.)

Noon MASTERS OF CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS (12:30 p.m.)

1:00 p.m. A BOLD PEACE (Work-in-Progress) with Michael Dreiling (1:00 p.m.)

A RIVER BETWEEN US with Jason Atkinson and Jeff Martin (1:00 p.m.)

3:00 p.m. AVANT-GARDENS: LANDSCAPE IN EXPERIMENTAL FILM with Scott MacDonald (3:30 p.m.)

WUXIA CINEMA AFTER CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: A Talk by Kin-Yan Szeto (3:00 p.m.)

4:00 p.m. FILMS OF JAMES BLUE (4:00 p.m.)

MENDING THE LINE with Steve Engman, Frank and Jeanne Moore (4:00 p.m.)

TAI CHI ZERO and Daniel Wu Skype (4:00 p.m.)

5:00 p.m. FRINGE FRIDAY (5:30 - 8:00 p.m.)

6:00 p.m. BAD EXORCISTS with Kyle Steinbach (6:30 p.m.)

TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE with Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas and Jay Smith (6:45 p.m.)

TRANSIT (6:45 p.m.) THE PERFUMED NIGHTMARE with Kidlat Tahimik (6:45 p.m.)

BALIKBAYAN #1: (AKA MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOP- MENT) with Kidlat Tahimik plus free Filipino delicacies! (6:45 p.m.)

7:00 p.m. A TOUCH OF ZEN (7:00 p.m.)

JONAS MEKAS’S WALDEN presented by Scott MacDonald (7:00 p.m.)

FRINGE FESTIVAL 7:30-11:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (8:00 p.m.)

9:00 p.m. ADRENALINE FILM PROJECT (9:15 p.m.)

A TOUCH OF SIN (9:15 p.m.)

CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON (9:15 p.m.)

LA ULTIMA PELICULA (9:30 p.m.)

Midnight BAD EXORCISTS (midnight)

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LOCATIONS KEY

Bijou Art Cinemas: 492 East 13th Avenue

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: 1430 Johnson Lane, UO Campus

Straub Hall: 1451 Onyx Street, UO Campus

Gerlinger Hall: 1501 Kincaid Street, UO Campus

180 PLC: 1415 Kincaid Street, UO Campus

Broadway Commerce Center: 44 West Broadway

Bijou Metro: 43 West Broadway

SCHEDULEMonday, April 27 Tuesday, April 28 Wednesday, April 29 Thursday, April 30 Friday, May 1 Saturday, May 2 Sunday, May 3

11:00 a.m. NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY (11:00 a.m.)

Noon MASTERS OF CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS (12:30 p.m.)

1:00 p.m. A BOLD PEACE (Work-in-Progress) with Michael Dreiling (1:00 p.m.)

A RIVER BETWEEN US with Jason Atkinson and Jeff Martin (1:00 p.m.)

3:00 p.m. AVANT-GARDENS: LANDSCAPE IN EXPERIMENTAL FILM with Scott MacDonald (3:30 p.m.)

WUXIA CINEMA AFTER CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: A Talk by Kin-Yan Szeto (3:00 p.m.)

4:00 p.m. FILMS OF JAMES BLUE (4:00 p.m.)

MENDING THE LINE with Steve Engman, Frank and Jeanne Moore (4:00 p.m.)

TAI CHI ZERO and Daniel Wu Skype (4:00 p.m.)

5:00 p.m. FRINGE FRIDAY (5:30 - 8:00 p.m.)

6:00 p.m. BAD EXORCISTS with Kyle Steinbach (6:30 p.m.)

TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE with Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas and Jay Smith (6:45 p.m.)

TRANSIT (6:45 p.m.) THE PERFUMED NIGHTMARE with Kidlat Tahimik (6:45 p.m.)

BALIKBAYAN #1: (AKA MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOP- MENT) with Kidlat Tahimik plus free Filipino delicacies! (6:45 p.m.)

7:00 p.m. A TOUCH OF ZEN (7:00 p.m.)

JONAS MEKAS’S WALDEN presented by Scott MacDonald (7:00 p.m.)

FRINGE FESTIVAL 7:30-11:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (8:00 p.m.)

9:00 p.m. ADRENALINE FILM PROJECT (9:15 p.m.)

A TOUCH OF SIN (9:15 p.m.)

CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON (9:15 p.m.)

LA ULTIMA PELICULA (9:30 p.m.)

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FRINGE FRIDAY (FRINGE FESTIVAL PREVIEW)WITH VIOLET RAY AND JOANNA PRIESTLEY

5:30 p.m. • Free • Broadway Commerce Center

Catch a preview of video works by artists who will unveil instal-lations and perfor-mances at Saturday night’s Fringe Festival. Media artist Violet Ray and animator Joanna Priestley will project works interspersed with video remixes of

martial arts classic A Touch of Zen submitted to the Fringe Festival competition. Also on display will be an exhibit of new prints by UO art students. Meet the artists, preview their work, grab food and drinks at the adjoining Barn Light, then join us at the JSMA on Saturday night for the Fringe Festival extravaganza!

TRANSIT6:45 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(The Philippines, 2013, 93 min.) This powerful debut feature from Filipino director Hannah Espia explores the intersecting stories of Filipinos in Tel Aviv when the threat of a proposed law to deport the children of migrant workers looms over their precarious lives. Transit is told through multiple characters’ perspectives, producing a multilin-ear effect in which certain scenes are repeated to reveal different facets of their experiences. Transit won a slew of Filipino film accolades, among them the Gawad Urian Award and the Golden Screen Award.

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGONWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DR. KIN-YAN SZETO

9:15 p.m. • Bijou Metro

(U.S./Taiwan/Hong Kong/China, 2000, 120 min.) “Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping…. The film was first screened to much acclaim at the 2000 Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals and became a favorite when Academy Awards nominations were announced in 2001. Crouching Tiger snagged 10 nods and later secured four wins for Best Cinematography, Score, Art Direction, and Foreign Language Film” (Jonathan Crow, Rovi).

SATURDAY, MAY 2

A BOLD PEACEWITH CODIRECTORS DR. MICHAEL DREILING AND MATTHEW EDDY

1:00 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(U.S., 2015) UO Sociology Professor Michael Dreiling codirects this exciting and revelatory fea-ture documentary, a work in progress preview-ing here. More than 60 years ago Costa Rica disbanded its military and redirected national resources towards education, health, and the environment. This film showcases Costa Rica’s inspirational national project, and examines the nation’s emphasis on happiness, health, and human rights.

MENDING THE LINEWITH STEVE ENGMAN AND FRANK AND JEANNE MOORE

4:00 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(U.S., 2013, 47 min.) In 1944 a soldier named Frank Moore, 20, landed on the beaches of

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Normandy. Crossing through the Occupied French countryside, Moore daydreamed about returning someday to fish the bucolic streams. After the war he returned to the States, mar-ried, had a family, and built a life around fly fish-ing. Moore finally made it back to those streams in France in 2014. Now 90, but with the energy of a man twenty years younger, Moore fulfills his dream with his wife and son by his side. Also on the program will be a segment of Frank Moore’s TedX presentation and a new short film by Steve Engman titled 52 Años.

THE PERFUMED NIGHTMAREWITH DIRECTOR KIDLAT TAHIMIK

6:45 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(The Philippines, 1977, 93 min.) The Perfumed Nightmare tells the story of a Third World villager, Kidlat, with bigger dreams than most. He would like to experience the shimmering wonders of the First World and travel to even more distant worlds, even if he has to start his own space program. Gene Youngblood wrote for Filmex: “This is a bizarre, hallucinatory movie full of dazzling images, and outlandish ideas. It’s both real and surreal, poetic and political, naive and wise, primitive and supremely accomplished.”

CINEMA PACIFIC’S 2015 FRINGE FESTIVAL7:30-11:00 p.m.• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Enjoy interactive installations by media artists Violet Ray, Jonas Mekas, Joanna Priestley, John Park, and UO Digital Arts students; perform mar-tial arts moves in the Wushu photo booth, dance in the Manny Pacquiao Karaoke Bar; join street artists X-O and Amanda Marie for a tour of their new exhibition; enjoy food and drinks, and more.

Admission includes entry to the following perfor-mances:

8:00 p.m. Fringe Festival Video Remix Awards

See the winning video remixes of the wuxia martial arts classic A Touch of Zen and meet the artists.

8:30 p.m. Bottle Neck and Other Animations with Joanna Priestley

Joanna Priestley will present her latest film Bottle Neck and a selection of works from her illustrious career. “One of America’s leading non-narrative animators, Priestley has pushed the walls of the medium.” (Jim Ridley, City Pages).

9:30 p.m. Video Game Demo by Mountain Machine Studios (Portland)

Mountain Machine Studios, one of five innova-tive companies selected to be part of Oregon Story Board’s first accelerator program, will demonstrate their remarkably creative game apps, including Mayday Deep Space and the soon-to-be-released The Second River.

10:15 p.m. Performance by Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik

Kidlat Tahimik, in between tonight’s Bijou screening of his classic The Perfumed Nightmare and tomorrow night’s premiere of Balikbayan #1, will present a live solo performance.

LA ULTIMA PELICULA9:30 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(Germany, 2013, 88 min.) La Ùltima Pelicula is an experimental documentary-fiction hybrid

by Raya Martin, a ris-ing and adventurous Filipino filmmaker, and Mark Peranson, the editor and publisher of Cinema Scope. A reimagining of Dennis

Hopper’s The Last Movie, the film portrays a dis-enchanted American filmmaker journeying to the Yucatàn with an amused local guide. The film-maker has bought all of the remaining celluloid film in the world, on the brink of the medium’s apocalypse, and much of the movie consists of his attempt to scout locations where the Mayan civilization flourished and died.

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BAD EXORCISTSWITH GUEST FILMMAKERS TBA!

12:00 a.m. (Midnight) • Bijou Art Cinemas

See Monday, April 27 for details.

SUNDAY, MAY 3

NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY11:00 a.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(The Philippines, 2013, 250 min.) At their best, Lav Diaz’s marathon movies reveal just how much other films leave out. Diaz’s twelfth fea-ture (at four-plus hours, one of his shortest) is a careful rethinking of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, shot in blazing color. The wounds and defeats of Filipino history loom large in each of Diaz’s films. Fabian, Norte’s tortured anti-hero (superbly played by Sid Lucero), may well be his most indelible creation: a haunting embodiment of the dead ends of ideology.

MASTERS OF CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS12:30 p.m. • Free • Gerlinger Gym on the University of Oregon campus

Join the Confucius Institute and UO Wushu Club as they host a series of performances by wushu practitioners from Eugene, Portland, and Seattle. The program will culminate with performances by visiting masters Hu Jianqiang, the highest-rank-ing Wushu master in the west, and Zong Jianmei, special guests from the Shaolin Wushu Center in Los Angeles.

A RIVER BETWEEN USWITH JASON ATKINSON AND JEFF MARTIN

1:00 p.m. • 156 Straub Hall, on the University of Oregon campus

(U.S., 2014, 90 min.) A River Between Us tells the story of the longest running and most bit-terly disputed water war in the western United States. The film’s primary focus is the environ-mental disaster on the Klamath River—yet the most dangerous toxin polluting the water is 30 years of bad blood between the local farm-ers, ranchers, Native tribes, members of the Tea Party, state politicians, and federal government. The film focuses on the personal stories of a peo-ple who chose to put the past behind them and join forces to create a historic water rights com-promise for the benefit of all.

TAI CHI ZEROFEATURING A SKYPE DIALOGUE WITH ACTOR/PRODUCER DANIEL WU

4:00 p.m. • 156 Straub Hall, on the University of Oregon campus

(China, 2012, 98 min.) Steampunk meets mar-tial arts in this Diversion Pictures (Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung) production. Our hero, Yang, stumbles upon a small mountainous vil-lage in which Chen-style kung fu is practiced. However, it is forbidden for the villagers to share these secrets with an outsider. After a particu-larly tough battle against the beautiful daughter of Master Chen, Yang is more determined than ever to master the art of Tai Chi, but he needs the Master’s permission first.

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BALIKBAYAN #1: (AKA MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT)WITH DIRECTOR KIDLAT TAHIMIK, AND TASTY FILIPINO REFRESHMENTS!

6:45 p.m. • Bijou Art Cinemas

(The Philippines, 2015, 140 min.) The latest piece by acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik (The Perfumed Nightmare) was 35 years

in the making. Winner of the Caligari Prize at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, Balikbayan #1 tells the story of Enrique of Malacca,

Magellan’s slave and arguably the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Giovanni Marchini Camia stated in Filmmaker: “A sui generis histor-ical epic, the film freely mixes genres, integrates a variety of formats, and features a carousel of actors spanning three generations—it may very well be Tahimik’s magnum opus.”

VENUE AND TICKETING INFORMATIONCinema Pacific events will take place on the UO campus and at Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Avenue, and Bijou Metro, 43 West Broadway.

Many shows are free. Tickets for most screenings are $6 for students, seniors, and matinees, and $8 general admission. Tickets are available online through April 21 at cinemapacific.uoregon.edu/schedule.

Tickets for all events are sold through the UO Ticket Office, 541-346-4363, located in EMU South (McArthur Court) on the UO campus.

Day-of-sales: tickets are sold at the venue 30 minutes before the published event start time. Cash, Visa, and MasterCard are accepted.

For more details, visit:

cinemapacific.uoregon.edu

or call 541-346-4231.

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 7:30–11:00 P.M. UO SCHNITZER MUSEUM

LIVE PRESENTATIONS by Kidlat Tahimik, Joanna Priestley, and Mountain Machine Studios

MEDIA INSTALLATIONS AND INTERACTIVE GAMES by John Park, Mountain Machine, and more

THE MANY PLACES WE ARE by street artists Amanda Marie and X-O

FROZEN FILM FRAMES: Portraits of filmmakers by Jonas Mekas

WUSHU PHOTO BOOTH with the UO Wushu Club

MANNY PACQUIAO FILIPINO DANCE CLUB

FALLEN IDOLS projection by Violet Ray

$10 PUBLIC/$5 STUDENTS AND SENIORS

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORSPresenting Sponsors

Primary Sponsors

Lead Sponsors

Major Supporters

The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

UO Wushu Club

Melissa Nolledo Photography and Fine Art

Ben Kalb

Mark and Joy Gall

Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts,

Sciences, and Humanities

The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This publication will be provided in accessible formats upon request. For assistance, e-mail cinemapacific@uoregon.edu

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