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Boathouse Microcinema is back for a revival season in Spring 2025!
Chris Freeman and Bryan Boyce have resumed screenings for the first time since 2019. We are still focusing on local experimental filmmakers in Portland, Oregon. We hope to see you at a screening!
2025 Schedule:
Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00 for all events
Upcoming:
Sat, Apr 5 – From the Sweat of the Spider
Curated by Erin Espelie
Mon, Apr 14 – Hiding Henry w/ When Jacob Jinkers Came to Town, in partnership with Portland Panorama Film Festival (doors at 7:00) (this will be a paid event through Portland Panorama)
Mon, Apr 28 – Zak Margolis and Rose Bond
Mon, May 19 – Paul Smart – Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration
Past:
Wed, Mar 12 – Assembly Cut: A Group Screening
Mon, Mar 17 – Carl Diehl – Painless Magic
Mon, Mar 24 – Róge Stack – Another Annette Bening Mug
View the archive of past events here.
Screenings will now be free!
(Except for the April 14 screening, which will be a paid event through Portland Panorama)
Boathouse Microcinema is a screening series of local filmmakers in Portland, Oregon. Screenings take place at The Boathouse, a long-running art studio space in a converted fire boat station on the banks of Willamette River. It was originally conceived of by Matt McCormick, who asked Chris Freeman to join. Originally meant as a 10-week project, its initial success after launching in the spring of 2017 led them to continue hosting screenings. In 2018, Chris Freeman continued the series with new collaborators Amy Epperson and Shannon Neale. These two brought a renewed energy and focus on centering queer and minority voices.
Boathouse Microcinema is proud to program artists of underrepresented identities, including promoting the work and voices of women, people of color, and sexual minorities. We acknowledge that our screenings take place on the stolen and colonized lands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, and Chinook people. And that our location in Portland’s Eliot neighborhood is a historically Black community that is continually gentrifying.
Willamette Week, Feb 2025 – “Boathouse Microcinema Returns for Another Season of Experimental Films”
The Digital Divide on KBOO, Oct 2018 – Interview with Chris Freeman
Willamette Week, Apr 2018 – “Film Compliation Portland 90 Exhumes Old Portland Without Nostalgia”
Other Zine, Spring 2017 – “Boathouse Microcinema in Portland: Interview with Matt McCormick”
Boathouse Microcinema’s first season was supported in part by The Precipice Fund, Calligram Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thanks is also due to PICA.
