Friends of Congress Square Park
The premier urban park in the heart of Portland’s vibrant Arts District. The park features local art installations, community events, free wifi and more!
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. Samsara is a 2011 American non-narrative documentary film, directed by Ron Fricke and produced by Mark Magidson, who also collaborated on Baraka (1992), …
Presented by SPACE Gallery, Sisters With Transistors showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner’s superb Sisters with Transistors showcases the work of female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie …
Free film screening! Presented by PMA Films. Sign o' the Times is a 1987 American concert film written and directed by Prince.
SIGUR RÓS: INNÍ 75 min. Not Rated. Directed by Vincent Morrisset Inní is Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós' second live film following 2007's tour documentary Heima. Whereas that film positioned the group in the context of their Icelandic homeland, Inní focuses purely on the band's performance. Filmed in a manner that invites both intimacy and claustrophobia, …
Does Bigfoot live in Maine? A brand-new documentary seeks to answer that question. Check out the premiere! The evening will be a double creature feature with Snapper showing first.
"Dope is Death" is the story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 -- a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America. The film …
Film preceded by a special performance by Jimmy Dority and Friends playing the music of Harry Nilsson, Van Dyke Parks, and more. Come to Congress Sq. Park for a special 40th Anniversary Restoration screening of Robert Altman’s one-of-a-kind big budget musical oddity. This is Robin Williams’ big screen debut. Shelley Duvall starred in Popeye after …
Join us for a free screening of The Talking Heads' STOP MAKING SENSE!
SPACE is happy to be presenting the 1973, mammal-forward Disney animated classic Robin Hood. You get swept away with its earthy color palate, the infectious folk songs by Roger Miller, the cuteness of the animals, and its clear eyed take on universal emotionality- love is love, sad is sad, greed is bad. There’s something undeniably …
A two-night showcase of short films from right here in Maine! These documentary shorts will showcase slices of life across Maine during COVID's cold winter months. Free and open to the public. Bring a camping chair!
