March Encore Screening

Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited to share this month’s Encore Screening. This month we feature four diverse short films from our 2020 program. This VOD series is free to Festival Friends and is available for unlock for $12.00 beginning March 17. The screening can be pre-ordered now, and is available for screening until March 31. The series can be found at the Festival Website or official Virtual Screening Hub at: https://watch.eventive.org/friendsofeofilmfest

What’s playing? 

Conspiracy Party
Dir. H. Nelson Tracey
7 min 55 sec

A guy invites a girl he’s recently started dating to his friend Ozzy’s apartment for a party. Unbeknownst to him, it’s a “Conspiracy Party.”

A Lark & a Swallow
Dir. Parker Winship
20 min

Amy loves birds almost as much as she loves her best friend almost as much as she loves drugs. A shut-in, barely functioning addict and dealer, she decides one night to try to again commune with the world and things get sticky.

Tired Eyes
Dir. Ryan Martin Brown
8 min 29 sec

Rose, Mitch, and Trevor make up the lo-fi rock band Tired Eyes. The trio have a small gig tonight, which means schlepping gear from a cramped practice space in Brooklyn to the middle of Manhattan. Unfortunately, the city has a way of making even the simplest of tasks absurdly difficult.

Wild Heart 1981 / 2020
Dir. Zach Dorn
6 min 30 sec

At the start of the COVID pandemic, I found myself obsessively returning to YouTube to watch Stevie Nicks singing in Annie Leibovitz’s NYC studio before a Rollingstone photoshoot. The video is voyeuristic, candid, and, thanks to YouTube, eternally preserved.

While this moment sits as a pop culture revelation on VHS, YouTube is also home to moments of maddening darkness.

Wild Heart 1981 / 2020 is a journey into both of these worlds utilizing 16mm film, found footage, and replacement animation.

The Eastern Oregon Film Festival Encore Series is an opportunity to share past films with growing audiences and provide a destination for our Membership base to access great programming year round. The series is available for in-home screening via the festival’s virtuals festival hub watch.eventive.com/eofilmfest. Participating in the viewings not only directly supports these filmmakers but also helps EOFF beat the heart of our cultural destination event. Take a watch and consider becoming an official Festival Friend this year.

Stills from left to right in order of listed films above.