Words and Pictures

In 1941, simmering tensions between Walt Disney Studios and its animators

boiled over into one of the most notorious walkouts in American labor

history, an incident that changed the face of the animation industry.

 Behind the surfact of the Disney Strike is a tangled sto...

In 1941, simmering tensions between Walt Disney Studios and its animators

boiled over into one of the most notorious walkouts in American labor

history, an incident that changed the face of the animation industry.

 Behind the surfact of the Disney Strike is a tangled sto...

Orpheus PDX is the newest opera company in the Pacific Northwest, bringing

together talent from around the world with the intention of making opera more

accessible and intimate.  Their inaugural season opened in August

2022 with the Monteverdi opera L’Orfeo, and continue...

Bushra Azzouz was an Iraqi-born experimental filmmaker who directed

documentaries and mentored students for two decades at the Northwest Film

Center's School of Film.  When she died in 2019, her colleagues Ellen

Thomas and Enie Vaisburd took up her unfinished project A M...

Portland is an international hub for stop-motion animation, and Jerold

Howard and Suzanne Moulton are two of the most innovative artists in the

field.

Suzanne is a filmmaker, artist, and educator.  She’s worked with Tim

Burton on Frankenweenie and Henry Selick on Corali...

In the spring of 2020, the Northwest Film Center shut the doors of its

Whitsell Auditorium in the face of the Covid lockdown.  Now, the space is

opening back up again, but with a different name and different priorities.

 Jon Richardson fills us in on the changes at PAM C...

Portland alt-comics heavyweights Barry Deutsch (Hereville) and Becky Hawkins

(French Toast Comix) have teamed up to create SuperButch, the adventures of

a lesbian superhero and the citizens whose lives she transforms.  Set in the

1940's when many gay Americans led double...

Kat Alioshin is a film director and producer who's helped shepherd numerous

stop-motion animated classics to the big screen, including The Nightmare

Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Coraline, and James and the Giant

Peach.

Now she's turned for inspiration to the long...

In this extended version of our conversation with Craig "Spike"

Decker and documentarian Kat Alioshin, we hear more about the history of

the Spike and Mike Festival of Animation.

Spike teamed up with Mike Gribble in the 1970's to launch the Spike and Mike

Festival (and ...

Thousands of film industry crew members and actors have learned the ropes

working for Lloyd Kaufman and his independent studio Troma Entertainment.

 The low-budget movies that Lloyd has directed and produced include Class

of Nuke ‘em High, Sergeant Kabukiman, and four di...