Peripheral Produce is an experimental film and video distribution label and provocateur of the annual PDX Film Festival.
The House of Sweet Magic:
Films my Helen Hill
Helen Hill (1970-2007) was a filmmaker and activist raised in Columbia, South Carolina and settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied Experimental Animation at Harvard and California Institute of the Arts. She taught film workshops wherever she went, and compiled “Recipes For Disaster: A Film Cookbooklet.” Helen Championed low-budget and do-it-yourself approaches to filmmaking, including super 8, hand-processing, and drawing on film, and insisted that “you don’t need to keep up with the latest technology to make a good film, you just need a good idea.”
Now available!
Peripheral Produce’s All Time Greatest Hits
re-released with new, 100% recycled packaging!
Peripheral Produce’s All-Time Greatest Hits is a compilation of short experimental films that encapsulates Peripheral Produce’s 10-year history. It features work from some of today’s brightest stars of underground cinema including Miranda July, Sam Green, Bill Brown, Naomi Uman, and Matt McCormick. Films on this compilation have screened at venues such as the Sundance Film Festival and the Whitney Biennial, and offer a diverse selection of new, contemporary experimental cinema. Plus, this new re-released version comes in re-designed packaging that is made with 100% recycled materials.
Other New DVDs
Milking & Scratching: Handmade Films by Naomi Uman
Few media artists bring together the personal and raw nature of documentary with the intimacy and artistic beauty of experimental filmmaking as effortlessly as Naomi Uman. This collection, comprised of five short 16mm works, features Naomi’s instantly recognizable aesthetic of scratched, dyed, and hand-processed imagery and defies the established boundaries of experimental film, narrative film, documentary filmmaking and social commentary.
