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Latest episodes
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Wildwood - Making Stop-Motion Animation
For this episode, we take a tour of Oregon's Laika Studios, home to the stop-motion features Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link. S.W. C…
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Dana Mashoian Walrath - Expanded Audio
In this 100% longer conversation with artist, writer, and anthropologist Dana Mashoian Walrath, we dive deeper into the stories behind her family history as the granddaughter of Ar…
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Dana Mashoian Walrath - The Book of Genocides
Dana Mashoian Walrath grew up the granddaughter of Armenian refugees, and spent her early years in Yemen, Egypt, Brazil, and the United States. She went on to win a Fulbright Schol…
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Music Documentarian Mike Lastra
Mike Lastra is one of the most prolific chroniclers of punk rock and indie bands. In the 1970's and 80's, before the advent of low-light cameras and compact microphones, Mike began…
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Film Composer Mark Orton
Mark Orton is a Portland-based composer whose music has been heard in multiple films and TV and radio series, including The Holdovers, Nebraska, The Roosevelts, and This American L…
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Allie Brosh - from the Archive
Allie Brosh is the creator of the comics blog Hyperbole and a Half and the author of the book collection of the same name, which unexpectedly shot to number one on the New York Tim…
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Portland Festival of Cinema Animation and Technology 2026
The annual Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology first landed at Portland's Oregon Museum of Science and Industry back in 2023, and has since become a hub for artists, direc…
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Roberta Gregory - Bitchy! Part Two
Roberta Gregory grew up in a creative environment as the daughter of a Disney comic book artist, and soon established herself as a leading voice in the alternative comics wave of t…
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Roberta Gregory - Bitchy! Part One
Roberta Gregory grew up in a creative environment as the daughter of a Disney comic book artist, and soon established herself as a leading voice in the alternative comics wave of t…
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Alex Cox
Alex Cox is a legendary filmmaker, teacher, and author whose films include Repo Man, Walker, and Sid and Nancy, and whose books include Ten Thousand Ways to Die and X Films: True C…
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David Rees - from the Archive
David Rees is the creator of the satirical clip-art comics collections My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable and Get Your War On and a supporter of land-mine removal efforts in Af…
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Oregon Film Museum and Brian Lindstrom
Oregon's rich history of filmmaking is chronicled in Astoria, at the very northwesterly tip of the state. We talk with Oregon Film Museum Executive Director Mac Burns about the mov…
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Amy Goodman - Steal This Story, Please!
Investigative reporter and Democracy Now co-founder Amy Goodman is the subject of a new documentary by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Academy Award-nominated filmmakers of Trouble the W…
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Marjane Satrapi - from the Archive
Marjane Satrapi is the artist and writer behind such graphic memoirs as Persepolis, Embroideries, and Chicken with Plums, and is the co-director of the animated feature film versio…
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Andy Warner in Beirut - from the Archive
Andy Warner is an artist and writer of non-fiction comics, and an editor for international cartoon platform The Nib. His books include Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, This Lan…
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John Waters Turns 80
John Waters is a legendary filmmaker, author, and raconteur whose books include Shock Value, Crackpot, and Liarmouth and whose films include Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Hairs…
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Penny Allen: The Godmother of Indie Film in Portland
For half a century, Penny Allen has been making fiercely independent films about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Beginning in Portland in the 1970's and recruiting suc…
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Charles Solomon - Expanded Audio
In this 100% longer conversation with animation historian Charles Solomon, we dive deeper into the stories behind his twenty-two published books, which include Enchanted Drawings:…
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Animation for the People
For nearly a century, the National Film Board of Canada has been a celebrated source of experimental and educational filmmaking, most notably animation. NFB directors have won hund…
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Keith Knight, Gentleman Cartoonist - from the Archive
Rapper, cartoonist, and social activist Keith Knight is a longtime fan of the Portland comics scene as well as community radio. He was delighted to make a detour to the KBOO studio…