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34 november 11, 2011 �� Cruisy Arcade with 1,000+ channels and ergonomic glory holes! www.mrpeeps.com Open 24 HRs 7 Days a Week! Peep Hole 709 SE 122nd Ave., Portland, OR 97233 503.257.8617 thearts much about posteriors as it is about posterity. And protrusions. And, as a certain former Sissyboy puts it, shiny things. The brainchild of the always affable Fannie Mae Darling (aka Jeffrey Darling) and the über-talented Gula Delgatto (aka Eric Sellers), the inaugural event, slated for November 19 at Q Center, manages to shortlist most everyone: amateur filmmakers, impatient viewers, last-minute joiners. “There are so many other things going on,” said Darling. “Every single day you have seven options, and we realize that people sometimes are like, ‘Look at that shiny thing! Look at that shiny thing!’” He and Sellers conjured up the fest a year ago, aware they’d have to make concessions to the denizens of the fast-paced queer arts world—even now, they’re extending submission deadlines to accomodate the rapid-fire realities of the YouTube Generation. Of course there’s more to Shorty Shorts than, um, (lack of ) length. The event is a night of works from local filmmakers, most of whom are queer. The rules for submission are simple: Keep the film under 10 minutes, and no penetration. Other than that, everything’s fair game. “I love porn,” proclaimed Darling. “I probably watch porn more than I watch anything else. But there’s a time and a place for that. If it was up to me and Gula, we probably would have penetration. I wanna make people feel a little squirmy, but I don’t wanna make people feel flat-out uncomfortable.” Q Center will transform from community hub to movie theater for this one-night-only cinema circus, complete with popcorn machine, a black tie-meets-cheetah print red carpet, beer and wine, and performances by Fannie and Gula. Darling says he’d like to build on his arsenal of annual benefits to include Shorty Shorts as a yearly event, much like the upcoming Queer Quistmas. www.justout.com All proceeds from Shorty Shorts go to Esther’s Pantry. “Eric and I kind of have the Portland heart where we know we’re gonna be here for several years,” said Darling. “So we like the whole ‘Let’s get back together again, guys!’ It’s so hokey, but at the same time we want Shorty Shorts to do that every year, too.” Those who recall Fannie Mae’s infamous wine-fueled video barrage in response to an October 2010 Just Out cover featuring Chi- Chi and Chonga—and a follow-up also featuring Delgatto—have a pretty good idea of the essence of the videos Darling is looking for. So far, he reports, the short films have been primarily hilarious, with lots of the trashy drag element that Darling helped reinvigorate in town while a member of the legendary Sissyboy troupe. The point isn’t to create a flawless masterwork, but to give everyone the opportunity to be that wine-fueled video vixen. Briefly. Shortly. “People can overly edit it, but I like them raw,” said Darling. “I think that’s the funniest. In Portland it works because Portland’s so fucking weird. We want all genres, but this year it’s mainly people just kind of going for that funny moment. I think people will expand more [in future festivals].” Darling and Sellers hope to expand, too, with a full day of films for the next Shorty Shorts. “We have in our mind something a lot bigger than it will be this year,” said Darling. “But it’s baby steps.” The Shorty Shorts Queer Short Film Festival is Sat., Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Q Center (4115 N. Mississippi Ave.). Admission is $5, or $3 with a canned food donation. For more information, or for submission information, visit shortyshortspdx.blogspot.com.
oregon’s lgbtQ newsmagazine House call acclaimed Portland filmmaker kickstarts post-production with online campaign The aftermath of an unspoken tragedy haunts Sarah Dunne (Diane Dalton), and her husband Allan (Randy Schulman) forces a trip to Italy to tend to their fractured marriage. Kelly (Lindsay Haun, True Blood) is set to housesit while they’re gone, and is soon joined by her younger brother Tim (RJ Mitte, Breaking Bad), and her boyfriend Jesse (Blake Berris, Days of Our Lives). Things get real strange, real fast when Jesse suddenly decides to kidnap 8-year-old Adam (Micah Nelson) from the supermarket parking lot, and the boy’s disappearance garners zero media coverage. What follows in House of Last Things is a dramatic thriller inspired by the emergence of repressed memories and haunting imagery, a grown-up screen scare that digs deeper than horror clichés. “I enjoy putting the audience in a position of feeling that they’re at home in a genre, but every time they think they’re in a place that’s familiar, it takes you somewhere else you haven’t been,” said the film’s writer-director, Michael Bartlett. In his first U.S. project since moving back thearts Jesse (blake berris) in House of Last Things stateside from Germany, Bartlett’s newest film is bound to draw attention. He made a name for himself as a filmmaker with The Little Girl Who Fell From a Tree, which won the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Best Editing Award, among numerous other honors, upon its 1998 release. While currently in post-production at Southeast Portland’s Indent Studios, the film is finished save for sound design and music, the costs of which Bartlett hopes to offset with a Kickstarter campaign. The fundraising goal of $22,000 must be met by November 15 to be successful. Shooting on House of Last Things was finalized in October 2010, with breathtaking contributions by cinematographer Ken Kelsch (Bad Lieutenant). As post wraps up, an intense trailer is viewable at the project’s Kickstarter page, and Bartlett has his fingers crossed that a full release will happen soon. “I could imagine that within six to eight months, we might be able to see this in the theater,” explained Bartlett. “That’s less dependent on us and more dependent on [getting a] distributor, and finding the right moment to bring it in. Timing is everything.” For more information, visit houseoflastthings. com. To donate to the Kickstarter campaign, search “House of Last Things” at kickstarter.com. houSe oF LaST ThIngS, LLC november 11, 2011 35
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