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Film fest deadline nears
THE BULLETIN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015
project so long as it has changed significantly in script and content.
The 2015 Central Oregon Film
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Festival's early-bird submission
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deadline of Feb. 28 is just more than
a week away. The contest, open to 1- to 12-minute locally produced independent short
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compete for first, second and third place in age categories of 10-14, 15-18 and adult, plus additional genre trophies and prizes. The winner of the
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line of Feb. 28 and receive a free festival T-shirt. Extended deadline is March 16. The date of the awards night has yet to be announced.
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tonight at Paulina Springs Books' Redmond location (422 SW Sixth Artist-run gallery Tumalo Art Co. St.), and again at 6 p.m. Saturday at will hold its fourth annual Best Fine its Sisters shop (252 W Hood Ave.). Art Sale Ever, or BFASE, from 9 Terrebonne author Bing Bingham a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, not at its shop will present "Shaped by the Land," but down a ways in an empty store- a collection of very short stories front,330 SW Powerhouse Drive, about the rural West. McMinville Suite 130 (between Jimmy John's author and publisher Shelley Housand Desperado Boutique) in Bend's ton presents her novel, "A Father's Old Mill District. Child," a tale of family and internaMore than 15 artists from the gal-
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— David Jasper
coffee shop one day shortly after beier hand, this affords Central Oregon ing asked to direct "The Pillowman." "As I'm sitting there reading it, I spooling tale of a pair of brothers, theatergoers a golden opportunity to Michal (played by Robert Marquez) see two different approaches to play- look over at Louie and I'm just like, and Katurian (Louie Van Patten). wright McDonagh's terrific material. 'Holy s-t, it's him. He's got to be KaAfter a traumatic childhood, the two The play asks the question, Rasic turian.He'sapainterwho'sobsessed have found lives for themselves in said, "Is an artist responsible for what with his art and wants to leave it bethe unspecified totalitarian state in a crazy person does with their art? Is hind,'" Rasic recalled. Van Patten all but dedined, but which they live. J.D. Salinger responsible for Mark DaThe audience meets them after vid Chapman? The fact that it had that agreed to read a copy of the script. they've been hauled in for question- brilliant question that doesn't really "He calls me up the next morning ing by detectives who accuse them have an answer, combined with a Kaf- and he's like, 'I've got to do this. I'm of horrific crimes against children. kaesque totalitarian Mte interroga- going to do it,'" Rasic said. If that gives you pause, Van Specifically, someone has begun tionroom combinedwiththe Brothers acting out the dark short stories Grimm-Tim Burton-y thing — it's the P atten more than held hi s o w n among seasoned stage vets such as written by Katurian, in which bad genre mash-up of the century." O'Sruitheain and Thompson. things aplenty happen to kids. The timing was right for RasicRasic himself noted, "The script is Michal is intellectually disabled, not directing it all those years ago althoughthat'snotthetermthe detec- has allowed him to steep a little lon- so strong it doesn't matter. As long as those people say those words, on tives Ariel (Brad Thompson) and 'Ili- ger in the theater world. polski (Liam Mykael O'Sruitheain) A sign of the seasoning: When stage, in English, it's going to be brilCTC invited him to direct, they also liant, because the script is brilliant." might use for his condition. "The Pillowman" is laden with At the outset, the audience will asked him to play Michal. He dedined nihilism, enhanced interrogation feel as blindsided as Katurian, which to focus on the work as a whole. "I always wanted to play Michal. methods andhorrible crimes against is probably why McDonagh has him That's always been my thing," he children — don't worry, the toes in a blindfolded at the play's opening. Whether he's guilty or not, the said. "I was like, 'I feel like if I played box are just homemade props — but writer in Katurian cares more about Michal, I won't be able to 100percent Rasic said theater shouldn't just be his stories living on after he's gone dive into this the way that I should.' about Neil Simon fare or jaunty muthan he does about saving his own It was like turning down my dream sicals. Sometimes we should push skin. Not that he wouldn't mind sav- role to do a job that I didn't even ourselves to dive a little deeper. "It's also really nice to be driving said skin, mind you. know if I could do." McDonagh's play explores the reRasic cast Van Patten, a painter ing home after the theater and be sponsibility of artists, and the fact whose work can be seen on CTC's thinking about s-t that you never that narrative itself becomes part of poster for the production, in the ma- would have thought about," he said. the narrative, without ever feeling jor role of Katurian, not because of "I'm hoping people drive away from didactic. hisacting chops — he has no prior 'Pillowman' really questioning all If this setup sounds vaguely famil- acting experience — but because of their belief structures about what iar, you might well remember Volca- he's a painter who, like Katurian, people do with their paintings and their writings and their sculptures, nic TheatrePub's recent production cares about the fate of his work. of "Pillowman" late last year. "He is a working artist, it's his full- and how words are just as dangerOn the one hand, it could be time job, and he's brilliant, incredi- ous as anything else." — Reporter: 541-383-0349, viewed as unfortunate that the two bly brilliant," said Rasic. He approached Van Patten in a productions landed so close in the djasper@bendbulletin.com "The Pillowman" is the sad, un-
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Three Oregon authors will give presentations on their books at 6
Storton will present "The Grass that Suffers," a true story chronicling the which means deals: up to 50 percent healing of a Ugandan girl. Some new categories have been off on everything from paintings to Admission is $5 and will be readded for this year's festival, includ- original prints, digital media and funded upon purchase of any of the ing Best Documentary (12 minutes more. three books. maximum), Wacky Shorts (two A percentage of sales will be doContact: 541-526-1491 (Redmond) minutes) and Remix, in which one nated to Bend's Community Center. or 541-549-0866 (Sisters). can re-enter a previously submitted
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Two chances to see three Oregon authors
calendar year. But on the other, ros-