Boathouse Microcinema

03/09/2025

Gentile reminder that tonight's event had to be rescheduled. Please check www.boathousemicrocinema.com for upates!

Home Boathouse Microcinema has ended its run! Boathouse Microcinema was a screening series of local filmmakers in Portland, Oregon. Screenings took place at The Boathouse, a long-running art studio space in a converted fire boat station on the banks of Willamette River. It was originally conceived o...

12/11/2018

Thank you to our Fall 2018 filmmakers and presenters - Shelby Navone, Seanna Musgrave, Chris Freeman, Stephen Slappe, James Curry IV, ariella tai, Roger Stack, Leah Brown, Daniel Coka, and Vu Pham.

We are now working on booking our Spring 2019 season and we will be back with more screenings of local filmmakers in a few months!

Meanwhile, Amber Case has upcoming experimental sound and noise shows booked at The Boathouse.

10/22/2018

Thank you to Stephen Slappe for presenting his Dead Media Hour archive to us last night! He led the audience through his research around The Riddle of Thurmond Towns, a record containing the story of an innocent African American man shot by police in the 1950s. It isn't hard to see how relevant this thrift store find is to today's current cultural climate. His presentation was both educational and moving.

10/11/2018

We've updated the calendar on our website to show our upcoming screenings and events!

The next one is on Oct 21 - Dead Media Hour presented by Stephen Slappe, which will be an engaging look at his archive of thrift store finds, with stories relating them to current events.

The calendar archive has also been updated to include photos and write-ups of all of our past events!

Calendar 2018: Screenings are on Sunday nights, doors at 7:30, show at 8:00. $8 Oct. 7 – Getting to Know You(Tube) – presenters Chris Freeman, Seanna Musgrave, Shelby Navone Oct. 21 – Dead Media Hour presented by Stephen Slappe Oct. 28 – James Curry IV Nov. 4 – Ariella Tai Nov. 11 – Roge...

10/08/2018

We had a great time learning about niche communities surrounding video games and VR at Getting to Know You(Tube) last night! Thanks to our presenters Shelby Navone, Seanna Musgrave, and our very own Chris Freeman for showing us their weird rabbit holes.

We're also proud to be keeping this series - this little piece of Portland history alive!

Thanks to everyone who came and we'll see you Oct 21 with Dead Media Hour hosted by Stephen Slappe!

09/17/2018

Boathouse Microcinema is returning for a Fall 2018 season! Chris Freeman will be continuing on, still focusing on screenings of local Portland filmmakers, now with new collaborators Amy Epperson and Shannon Neale. You may recognize these two women from their time volunteering at past screenings. All three will now be co-running the series and curating events.

Special thanks to Matt McCormick for starting Boathouse Microcinema. We wish him well in his future endeavors in Spokane!

Upcoming screenings will be posted soon!

Also look for a separate series of experimental sound and noise shows under the name Boathouse Experimental Studios, run by Amber Case.

07/17/2018

Portland peeps, you'd be crazy to miss this amazing program of short films by Danny Lyon, organized by Vanessa Renwick at the The Hollywood Theatre. Wednesday night at 7:30!!!!

04/12/2018

Thanks Willamette Week for the cool article about our PORTLAND 90 program!

But McCormick is reluctant to get too nostalgic about the era in which he came up. “[It’s] a little bit naive and self-centered to point to, say, 1992 and say, ‘That’s Old Portland,’” says McCormick, “because I’m sure there would be someone who lived in Portland in the ’60s, ’70s...

04/03/2018

The Saturday screening of PORTLAND 90 is already sold out, but tickets remain for Sunday's screening. Sn**ch them up quick if you want to attend the show!!!

Double down on the history of Portland: A collection of short films from Portland’s fabled '90s, screened in the former boathouse for the Portland fire bureau. The evening is curated by local filmmaker Matt McCormick. The years stemming from the late 1980s through the early 2000s profoundly shaped...

11/20/2017

Giant thanks to Nathan Sonenfeld, Luca Dipierro, and Kello Goeller, as well as everyone who attended, for closing out our fall screening season on a high note.

11/02/2017

This Sunday night at the Portland Film Festival/Laurelhurst Theater!!!

The Boathouse Microcinema is a non-traditional 30-seat screening venue dedicated to promoting the Portland filmmaking community. A former fire-boat-station, the Boathouse is a long-running collective artist studio that has deep roots in Portland’s creative scene and hosts weekly screenings of local…