November 6-12: Pander Bros. "SELFLESS" @ Cinema 21
Pander Bros. "SELFLESS" to play Cinema 21 on November 6 – 12
The Pander Brothers' award-winning feature film, "Selfless," is scheduled to play the Cinema 21 for a week, beginning Friday, November 6, 2009. Directed by Jacob Pander and produced by Arnold from their own original screenplay, the neo-Portland thriller is set in the heart of the trendy Pearl District, where ambitious young architect Dylan Gray shares a luxury condo with his beautiful fiancé while calculating his next brilliant career move as a rising design star in the ‘green' high rise movement. What Dylan doesn't know is that his perfect existence is about to unravel — the result of foolishly angering a convicted identity thief, dressed as a businessman, in an airport terminal.
"Selfless" will be screen with "Radius," the Pander Brothers' first collaborative short, shot in 1986 at the end of the Cold War. The 7-minute film features Portland's Burnside Bridge as a bold architectural abstraction as it opens and closes for a lethal-looking military vessel as it passes through what was once believed to be ground zero for a potential Soviet nuclear missile attack during the Cold War."Selfless" marks the feature film debut for the brothers, who have developed a cult following as award-winning comic book illustrators and creators of such cult classics as GRENDEL: Devil's Legacy and Triple X. Dubbed "a power duo of creativity" by SOMA magazine, their long collaboration has included music videos for Palm Pictures, the concept for Gus Van Sant's "Runaway" video for Deee-Lite, three graphics novels, ten comic series and 15 stand-alone issues — such as the blockbuster titles Batman: City of Light and Batman: Apocalypse Girl — for Marvel, DC Comics and Dark Horse.
Starring Portland actors Joshua Rengert, Jen Hong and October Moore, along with Los Angeles screen veteran Mo Gallini, "Selfless" was shot by cinematographer Kevin Fletcher, a regional Emmy Award-winner. The film's chilling score was composed by Keith Schreiner, known for his distinctively dark melodic soundscapes, and features vocals by Storm Large and songs by Portland's Pink Martini and Dandy Warhols.
Popular comic book author Matt Wagner spotted Arnold's work in a Portland comic store and had independent comics company, Comico, sign the brothers to illustrate his GRENDEL: Devil's Legacy series. Overnight, Jacob and Arnold went from "selling Christmas cards out of our shoulder bags" to flying back to the family homeland of Amsterdam to inspire their next project. The 12-issue series set a new sales record for an independent comic book, merited nominations for the coveted Eisner and Manning Awards, and scored the industry's top fans-choice award for the duo.
After studying 16mm filmmaking at the Northwest Film & Video Center and serving as an apprentice editor on the 35mm feature, "Shadow Play," Jacob launched his career as a director in 1992, when Frontier Records hired him to shoot the music video, Light in You, for Dharma Bums, which received extensive play on MTV. The Panders went on to conceive, direct and produce Hitting Birth's Drive On, winner of a Oregon Cascade Award, and several electronica videos featured on MTV's Amp. Soon after, they were hired by Palm Pictures in New York to create a series of music videos, featuring such international electronic artists as Howie B., Fantastic Plastic Machine, Spacer, and DJ Miku in a narrative through-line to tell an audio-visual story. Wired magazine called their talent for raw storytelling "a knack for cinematic suspense."
November 13, 2009 at 5:30 pm
missed the event-can this be seen on DVD etc?
another showing elsewhere?