TEMPLE – Every Friday in October, the Temple Stream Theater is creating an event called Temple Live! beginning with pizza at the Upside Bakery and followed by music, performance or films.
This week on Oct. 9, Vanessa Renwick will show a collection of her short films described by the film director Todd Haynes as “hidden stories and secret lives defining our great national weirdness.” Pizza begins at 6 p.m., Films at 7 p.m. The theater/bakery is located at 319 Intervale Road in Temple.
Vanessa Renwick is a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon. Since 1981, she has been working in experimental and documentary forms—writing, producing films, videos, photography, sculpture and installations. In 1996, she started her own production company, called The Oregon Department of Kick Ass. Renwick’s art reflects an interest in place, landscape use and transformation, as well as relationships between bodies and landscapes.
Renwick has created over 50 works that have been shown internationally at sites such as The Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, The Viennale, and The Andy Warhol Museum. In 2009, with Brian Borrello, she created People’s Bike Library of Portland (also known as Zoobomb Pyle) part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including: The Jim Demulling Speak Out Award for Best Social Awareness Documentary at the Humboldt Film Festival (2007), The Judges Award at the Northwest Film and Video Festival from Michael Almereyda (2005) and The Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2005) Most recently, she is the recipient of the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship (2014)
For more information on the event, Contact Michael Romanyshyn, Temple Stream Theater, 778-0754.
