Gridlords

Showings

Hollywood Theatre Sat, Apr 27, 2013 9:30 PM
A narrative arts and performance-based monthly live experience with its roots in Portland’s underground and art comics community.
Hollywood Theatre Sun, Jan 25, 2015 9:45 PM
Hollywood Theatre Fri, Apr 17, 2015 9:45 PM
Linework NW is back in its second year. Last year Gridlords presented a stellar array of talent from the pool of incredible Linework guest artists and local artists alike. This year will be another huge one, with a showcase of talents that Gridlords feels are some of the best unsung heroes of the narrative arts' new wave. Gridlords is a performance-based monthly live experience with roots in Portland’s underground and art comics community. Starting with a strong love of interdisciplinary performance and storytelling and a desire to marry sound and vision in new ways, Gridlords inventor Sean Christensen felt a void of live experience in the world. Gridlords is here to occupy that void.
Series
Series:Regular Programming
Promotions
Promos in Effect:Member Guest Pass (YES)
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Description

Sunday, January 25 at 9:45pm  |  $5

Cinder Rubble
The new video Cinder Rubble, a debut from director Seagull, is very confusing. The duration and flow of events is very weird — it's no wonder it was written by a spider. The project is storytold by Erin Tanner (maybe you know him or don't). He storytold another video called Moon Diary. Is this a sequel in a classic series of loremations? What happens in the video is that we show up and want to know what happens, but Erin doesn't really want to tell us. Then the moon falls to the earth, luckily some of us survive and it seems like the rest of the movie is some kind of awkward first date. 

"The world isn't ready for this" — Curtis Randolph (Moon Diary, Bob and Bob Studios)

"Erin is an honest magician" — Jamie Burkart (top agent @ Open House auto-insurance)

"I can't wait for this stuff to happen :)" — Sean Christensen (ABT, Gridlords)

"I got sick and didn't watch it yet" — Tim Eivers (Uncle)

"Seagull is like Uwe Boll meets Tarsem" — Faulty's Movie Reviewer

Object Lesson
A fakelore fairytale parable fable self-help urban legend about a business dog, an excitable little triadic dude and a roving vendor of collectible items.

Join them in their predominately static adventure as they take scalpels and gingerly slice at their internal gelatin walls, discovering various things and having a lot of inexact but promising thoughts about themselves and each other. Identities are mistaken and/or identified. Minuscule worlds collide and change each other in faintly perceptible ways. What will be the moral of the story?

Written by Sean Christensen ABT and Andrice Arp and performed live by puppets and gifs.

Gridlords is a narrative arts and performance-based monthly live experience. Its roots are in Portland’s underground and art comics community, starting in April 2012 at the Waypost. With a strong love of interdisciplinary performance and storytelling, and a desire to marry sound and vision in new ways, Gridlords inventor Sean Christensen felt a void of a live experience in the world he knew was possible.