Portland-based filmmaker Karl Lind is the best kind of maker, the kind we are so lucky to have many of in Portland, who in addition to doing his own projects, makes interesting work in collaboration with non-filmmakers, AND makes time to see that local filmmakers’ work gets seen. Since 2006, he’s been programming the Odds and Ends Screening series and is Gallery Homeland’s “head of film and video reprogramming.” His beautiful short films like the 2004 “Eulogy for Memory” , (often, like Eulogy, incorporating found Super 8 footage) engage sound (music) and image equally, making implied narrative that is abstract enough to foreground images compelling in and of themselves. His work has screened at venues such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Experimenta, Les Contres Images and The Other Cinema. Currently working on, among other things, a karaoke music video for Devo’s Gates of Steel for the PDX Film Festival, Lind took a moment to answer the questions of the ultra Q wherein we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions.
Qualities you most admire in design and film: Directness, tangibility, relevance and perhaps a hint of emotion.
Qualities you most despise in design and film: needless obscurity and or pretentiousness
Reading: recently finished The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Listening to: Devo, Lhasa De Sala, Aesop Rock, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Flaming Lips, and Talkdemonic.
Dream project: Working on a project related to investigating and better understanding dreams.
Favorite virtue: Helping others, listening.
Favorite vice: Talking a lot, substances.
Tragic flaw: Over indulgence.
Secret superhero power: An overly active and unstoppable imagination.
That which keeps your afterburners firing: Hope.
What you’d like to be when you grow up: Stable.
Portland’s best kept secret: Well, snitches get stitches. I can’t comment on this one.
Portland heroes (sung or un-): Linda Austin, Gretchen Hogue, Vanessa Renwick, The Mickey Mouse hat trumpet man, Marc Moscato, Ron Gassaway, Holly Andres, Dan Pred, Grace Carter, Nate Goodman, Dan Ackerman, this list could go on for quite awhile longer…
Interesting on the horizon (PDX): How many more condos can a city of this size possibly take?
WHAT TO DO NOW?