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on March 28
Grand Detour
Posted project update #3Uhhhhhhpdate! So many things happening with EFFPortland...
Post CommentHello, fantastic backers! Sorry that it has been a second since our last update- Ben and Hannah have been digging out from under a HUGE pile of submissions (over 400!) and loving every minute of it. We will be sending out notifications the first week of April, when Ben gets back from the Ann Arbor Film Festival (we are all so stoked for him! Kind of a big deal).
We wanted to send a quick note to keep you up on all things EFFPortland: Things are happening!
We will be partnering with Cinema Project on Thursday, May 24, for "The Animals and Their Limitations", a program of films by Jim Trainor, who will be in attendance at the event!
We will also be hosting exhibitions of video installation at Place gallery and galleryHOMELAND in May and June, with openings, panels, performances, and other events happening concurrently with the festival. We JUST finalized plans to hold two evenings of performance programs at the University of Oregon's White Box Gallery, where we are also hosting Vanessa Renwick's new installation Medusa Smack, fresh from its debut at the Portland2012 Biennial. We are so excited to be able to bring so much time-based expanded cinema to the inaugural year of this festival!
Speaking of Vanessa, we are THRILLED to announce that a presentation of her collaborations with Lori Goldston, Mighty Tacoma and Charismatic Megafauna, will close out the festival at the Hollywood Theatre on Sunday, May 27. Earlier that afternoon, we will be partnering with the Dill Pickle Club and their film lecture series "A Place Called Home"! We are enthusiastically co-presenting the "experimental" installment of this series at the Clinton Street Theater, with lectures by Jim Blashfield, Brooke Jacobson, and PDX Fest founder Matt McCormick! This day of denouement for EFFPortland will be a nice nod to the makers that have made PDX such a fantastic place to be an experimentalphile.
While we are still finalizing our program of screenings, we can tell you that Friday night, May 25, will feature back-to-back showcases of Portlandian shorts and International offerings, and that Saturday night, May 26 is the night of "Director's Picks": Ben and Hannah's favorite favorites (they are fighting it out as we speak).
So stay tuned! We will have many many more updates, including a more detailed screening schedule and a roster of installation artists, very very soon. We'll have images, clips, news, and much, much more for you as the festival's opening draws closer, and come May we will be contacting you to get you your sweet, sweet EFFPortland swag. We couldn't be doing all of this without you guys, so THANK YOU again, from the bottom of our little EFF'd up hearts.
As always, you can find us on our website and our Facebook Page. Never hesitate to holler!
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on February 22Funded!
EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL PORTLAND 2012 by Grand Detour
Premiering May 2012, EFFPortland was sparked by the desire to fill the current need for a Portland-based experimental media festival.
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113% funded $3,405 pledged
- 91 backers
- Funded Feb 22, 2012
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on February 21
Grand Detour
Posted project update #2WE DID IT!
Post CommentAs we embark into the last hours of this campaign, we wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for contributing towards the success of EFFPortland.
We are so excited to have met- nay, exceeded!- our goal, and we could not have done it without your support and generosity.
So thank you thank you thank you! And stay tuned- we'll have lots of news to report about our programming very soon.
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on February 10
Grand Detour
Posted project update #1HOME STRETCH!
Post CommentA Big EFF'n HELLO to our Backers (and potential backers)!
First of all- THANK YOU for your contribution to the inaugural year of EFFPortland!!! We have been busting our humps to make this a fantastic event, and we will have all sorts of exciting news to share with y'all very soon.
In the meantime, if you happen to be Portlandian or from points nearby, we would like to invite you and your friends to an awesome upcoming event on Saturday, February 18th, at the fabulous emerging DIY classroom/performance space/workspace Boom Bap! * on 640 SE Stark. We will be promoting the last days of our Kickstarter effort as well as celebrating experimental media and giving attendees a little taste (an amuse bouche, if you will) of what's to come in May.
Doors open at 7:30, with interactive performances from artists Jesse Mejia and LightTroupe. There will be a special video screening from the Grand Detour Collection, bookended by fun, fun, fun music by Maui and Papa and toyboat toyboat toyboat, Pink wig? Definitely. Volcano? Maybe. Party-time gelatin goodness? MOST ASSUREDLY. There's also been talk of hand-customized EFFPortland volcano lighters available for purchase, and you'll get to meet the men and women behind the EFF effort.
With only 10 days left and the prize within sight (we are just about 2/3 funded! Wahooo!) we are pulling out all the stops and hope you will, too!
Please share with your friends and family the really cool rewards we have waiting for them on Kickstarter. Post to Facebook, send an email, smoke-signal the link, and let the world know how awesome you are for contributing and encourage them to be awesome too!If you're not a local, don't you worry- we still love you! As we confirm programming for the festival, we will be sure to keep you in the loop. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your support. We are full steam ahead and can't tell you how humbled and grateful we are to have you behind us.
Again, our deepest thanks and we hope to see you out on the 18th- it is going to be one cool party!
*DO check these kids out. They are headed for great things and we are STOKED to be working with them!
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on February 2
Grand Detour
backed a project
Live From The Grave...It's John Belushi (A Tribute) by JackZullo
Live multi-media show features live music, sketch improv, short docu-style vids.
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on January 23
Grand Detour launched a project
EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL PORTLAND 2012 by Grand Detour
Premiering May 2012, EFFPortland was sparked by the desire to fill the current need for a Portland-based experimental media festival.
- $3,000 funding goal
- 02/22/2012 Funding Ended
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on November 8, 2011
Grand Detour
backed a project
Boys for Sale by Khamsin
A documentary about young male sex workers in the bars of Chiang Mai's red light district.
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141% funded $2,124 pledged
- 28 backers
- Funded Dec 09, 2011
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on August 29, 2011
Grand Detour
backed a project
GLI.TC/H 20111!?▐▐▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▀▀▌▌▌▐▐▐DIT▀▀▀▀▀Do▄it▄2gather▀▀▀▀ by GLI.TC/H
GLI.TC/H is a festival celebrating the glitch! Artists, thinkers, performers, makers && breakers gather to intentionally F▒C◀SH▓┐UP↕
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173% funded $5,543 pledged
- 146 backers
- Funded Sep 27, 2011
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on August 12, 2011
Grand Detour
backed a project
Screwed Rapids by The Screwed Arts Collective
We will create a 95’ long and 22’ 5” tall wall drawing in the Ramp Project Space of the UICA during the ArtPrize® festival.
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100% funded $13,119 pledged
- 105 backers
- Funded Aug 24, 2011
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on June 18, 2011
Grand Detour
backed a project
Sita-a short film about commercial surrogacy by Arpita Kumar by Arpita
Through three individual vignettes, Sita uncovers the different faces of commercial surrogacy in India.
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101% funded $6,095 pledged
- 92 backers
- Funded Aug 09, 2011
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Grand Detour
Portland, OR
Grand Detour is a Portland, Oregon-based emerging microcinema and experimental media center committed to supporting, enhancing, and connecting the community of new media artists in Portland and beyond. Currently hosting screenings and curating video ... view more
