“Come Together Home” trailer from Ivy Lin on Vimeo .
Portland documentary filmmaker Ivy Lin’s previous work, “Pig Roast & Tank of Fish,” was an illuminating
look at Portland’s Chinatown, from its rich cultural history to ongoing
transition from the city center out to Southeast 82nd Avenue. With “Come Together Home” Lin connects Chinatown to China itself. A section of Inner Southeast Portland’s Lone Fir cemetery once was filled with the
remains of more than 1,000 Chinese (people often recorded by Multnomah County as “Chinaman,” even when names were known) before mass exhumations in 1928 and 1949. Lin’s film goes all the way to Hong Kong as it traces one 1949 shipment of remains that went missing.
7 p.m. Monday, Kennedy School Theater
“RAW FAITH”
One of Oregon’s most respected religious leaders, Marilyn Sewell of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, is the subject of Peter Wiedensmith’s documentary about the difficult choice between spiritual devotion and personal fulfillment.
Under Sewell’s 17-year leadership, First Unitarian more than doubled its membership, a rare accomplishment among Portland inner-city churches. Her empathetic, wise sermons and political activism made her a well-known figure and a sought-after public speaker. “Raw Faith” is the story of Sewell’s painful, faith-altering separation from the community she so deeply loved — and the story of her finding love when she least expected it. The narrative sags a bit toward the end, but Wiedensmith’s film is graceful, thought-provoking and benefits from Sewell’s gravitas and Southern charm. ( Read The Oregonian’s profile of Sewell .)
Starts Friday at Hollywood Theatre
MAKINO TAKASHIA full-immersion twinning of experimental cinema and very loud experimental music is planned when Makino Takashi travels from Japan to present his work as part of Cinema Project’s Beyond Borders series. Takashi’s purely visual work is murky, highly textured and obscure, to say the least, but when combined with the cranked-up post-rock drone of musician Jim O’Rourke, the effect is bracing, something like a modern-day variation on the Star Gate sequence in Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Tuesday’s program features three shorts accompanied by O’Rourke’s recorded music; Wednesday should be even more intense, as noted space-rock guitarists Tara Jane O’Neil and Brian Mumford provide live accompaniment to Takashi’s newest film, “Inter View.” Earplugs, anyone?
7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday at Clinton Street Theater
“PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE”
It really has been a quarter-century since Paul Reubens took his man-child persona Pee-wee Herman to the mainstream with this highly successful sequel/road comedy. America learned some resonant lessons, including that there’s no basement in the Alamo and that a woman shouldn’t get mixed up with a guy who’s “a loner, Dottie … a rebel,” while discovering great new talent in director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman. Not to mention that the central theme of the horror of having a bicycle stolen resonates in this bike-obsessed town.
11 p.m. Saturday (21 and over) and 2 p.m. Sunday (all ages) at Bagdad Theater
– Stan Hall
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