Portland Film Festival 2021

Music Videos - Shorts Block

Expired November 9, 2021 7:45 AM
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33 films in package
Don't Walk Down That Road
Noir-inspired music video for Swedish artist Tilde.
Dreamcatcher
The official music video for Keke Palmer’s song “Dreamcatcher” in which a super-fan tries to pull an all-nighter programming a robot of the Pop Star of his dreams.
3 Moons
After the death of her mother a young woman struggles to work out how to process her grief as the world moves on around her.
Adrian Sutherland - Politician Man
Politician Man is a protest song for Canada, by Northern roots-rockers Adrian Sutherland. The seeds were planted when his remote community of Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency over contaminated water. The award-winning video is his response to failed promises by politicians.
Becky Doll • Young Fresh Fellows
A young girl's aura is saved by the Becky Dolly
Bloodvape
A Wall Street vampire starts vaping blood so he can date his dream girl. What could go wrong?
Born
On the day Sawyer moves out of his childhood home, he witnesses vignettes of children at different stages of their life under the tutelage of their parents.
Clathrate Gun
A dark and beautiful music video to parallel these dark and changing global times. 'Clathrate Gun' from Tilman Robinson's third album CULTURECIDE on Bedroom Community.
Dermot Kennedy: Giants
Director Oriol Puig contrasted nature’s return, beauty and peacefulness to global human fears of entrapment and confinement, he was drawn to physically represent Dermot as an antique metallic exoskeleton within environments that warp, merge and in some scenes reveal reflections growing from the inside out.
FEEL BETTER
A murderous duo repeatedly pursue their victim through a series of scenes reminiscent of the Giallo horror genre.
Get it, Let it Go
A series of mannequins help reanimate and cheer up a girl found in various states of failure and defeat.
Gorilla Wizard - Maple Crunch
A young man finds himself on a mysterious journey after eating a cursed cereal.
James Blake – Say What You Will
James Blake feels like he's constantly one-upped by someone else
Miracles - Jarryd James
Featuring Jarryd James and two doctors, Miracles allows you to enter the multi-layered world of Jarryd’s psyche - where we experience his inner thoughts, struggles, and realisations.
Lucie & the Robot - Beyond Now
Emerging from an unhealthy relationship, Beyond Now describes the gaps between past, present and future – reforming and reestablishing a sense of self.
Blind Youth Industrial Park
A woman drags an injured companion on a stretcher through an alien landscape, as the pair are tracked by a squad of armed soldiers in pursuit.
Nation of One
Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and Matthew ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes them toward escaping the ship-- and each other.
Sleepin’ - Noble Son
The video follows Noble Son (Adam Kirschner), on the run from a mysterious intruder, through a series of increasingly bizarre, dream-like vignettes. We meet hungry surgeons, giant babies, the Zodiac killer and even Indie-Folk sweetheart Dan Mangan.
Rosie
Official Music Video for Jake Huffman's single "Rosie" - out now!
Riotron - Dark Highway
Chased by a strange and evil presence, a man struggles to outrun his demons along the dark highway...
Slaving Away
What are you willing to do to climb to the top?
The Moon in the Water
"The Moon in the Water" was created as a part of the annunal autumn concert series from Seoul National University Department of Korean Music in the COVID19 era. The individual members of the string quartet and the Gayageum player each prepared without contact, using only the recordings.
Twisted
A love letter to Nineties grunge --- and a personal psychomagic ritual about polarity, gender, fame and desire.
The Only Thing You See Now
"The Only Thing You See Now" by SeaPertls is an intimate duet filmed in the early morning hours on a dock along the Seattle waterfront. Dancers Miles Pertl and Leah Terada create a moving tableau, seeking balance on unsteady ground, accompanied by musician Jason Webley perched high atop a wooden piling.
Undone
Undone is a short dance film featuring Camren Bicondova
The Great Divide
The great divide takes us on an unwavering reverse-zoom journey through the big bang into the creation of life to a distant future all in one continuous camera move.
Unflinching
Female equestrians traverse a dreamy landscape, powerful figures on horseback driven by animalism and grace.
TOMORROW
With lavender-tinged uniforms, the queer students revolt with satisfying consequences!
Wilsen Ruiner
Two very different women cross paths out in the mountains.
Winona
A stylised tribute to Dolly Parton as explored through a portrait of a woman attempting to define herself at a look alike competition.
You'll Be Something
"You'll Be Something" is a jarring juxtaposition between the mundanity of familiarity and the consequence of passion. As the story unfolds we're reminded of how hard it can be to love when one doesn't feel worthy of love themselves.
YUKNO × Oehl feat. Autodrom - BRUMM BRUMM
Humans doing anything necessary for a sports car not to hit the ground.
Excuse My Accent
The music inspired short film follows a young girl as she looks in awe at today's ills, the viewer is able to equally grapple with the emotion of our current climate.
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During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Seattle Dance Collective commissioned five new works for their project, Continuum: Bridging the Distance. "The Only Thing You See Now" by SeaPertls is an intimate duet filmed in the early morning hours on a dock along the Seattle waterfront. Dancers Miles Pertl and Leah Terada create a moving tableau, seeking balance on unsteady ground, accompanied by musician Jason Webley perched high atop a wooden piling. Staying afloat, making waves.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    5 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Rating
    G
  • Note
    In March of 2020, the pandemic lockdown forced Seattle Dance Collective to cancel live performances for our summer season and filming dance quickly became our necessary creative outlet. We suddenly found ourselves plunged into the unfamiliar world of film production, creating five new works for the screen, including “The Only Thing You See Now”, for a program entitled, Continuum: Bridging the Distance. Working with Northwest musician and composer Jason Webley, the collaborators for this film were made up of additional artists exploring this medium for the first time, including brother and sister choreographic duo SeaPertls. The Only Thing You See Now was created following strict COVID-19 protocols, with social distancing and masking measures in place. The dancers were living together, allowing them to rehearse and perform with each other in close proximity.
  • Director
    SeaPertls (Miles Pertl, Sydney M. Pertl), Henry Wurtz
  • Producer
    Noelani Pantastico, James Yoichi Moore
  • Cast
    Miles Pertl - Dancer, Leah Terada - Dancer, Jason Webley - Musician/Composer
  • Cinematographer
    Henry Wurtz
  • Editor
    Henry Wurtz
  • Production Design
    SeaPertls (Miles Pertl and Sydney M. Pertl)
  • Composer
    Jason Webley
  • Music
    Jason Webley
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