Words and Pictures

In this extended conversation with British filmmaker Martin Cooper and

independent animators Rose Bond, Joanna Priestley, and Joan Gratz, we take

a deeper dive into Portland's reputation as a hub for independent

animation.

History, Mystery, and Odyssey is Martin's most ...

The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology has been touring

the world for over a decade as the International Festival of Cinema and

Technology.  Now it's come home to Portland as a four-day event that will

be taking place at the Oregon Museum of Science an...

What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded?  That's

the question asked in 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real

events of January 6, 2021.  Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed

Man) and Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p...

In this episode of Words and Pictures from May of 2012, we revisit Alison

Bechdel, creator of the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and

author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?

Alison may be best known for the “Bechdel Test,” which orig...

The Portland Art Museum's new exhibition "Crafting Pinocchio" takes visitors

inside the world of Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning version of

Pinocchio, created largely in Portland with local stop-motion animators.

Pinocchio Co-Director Mark Gustafson and Animat...

Musician and composer Terence Blanchard is a two-time Academy Award nominee

for his work with Spike Lee, and a seven-time Grammy winner for his jazz

albums and soundtracks.  He's played trumpet and piano with Lionel Hampton

as well as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and ha...

Skip Elsheimer has filled up a ten-bedroom house in his hometown of

Raleigh with his collection of 30,000 16mm films, which he screens online

for viewers every weekday.  His channel, AV Geeks, celebrates all the

earnestness and weirdness of 20th-century educational and i...

Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979

became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts'

Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women

artists ever since.

As a young animator in th...

Seattle-based documentarian John de Graaf came to prominence with the film

and book series Affluenza, a critique of the consumerism and

materialism that plagues American communities and the global environment.

 He’s now the Executive Director of Take Back Your Time and c...

Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979

became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts'

Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women

artists ever since.

As a young animator in th...