Oregon Department of Kick Ass

16mm hand processed and tinted to video
Cinematography and editor: Vanessa Renwick
online editor: Tim Scotten
Score by Tara Jane O'Neil

The Portrait Series is part of an ongoing series of filmed places, stories and histories of Cascadia with scores by musicians living in the Pacific Northwest.

A mesmerizing stare with a hypnotic score at the most efficient grain terminal at the port of Vancouver, B.C..
The terminal is serviced by the Canadian Pacific Railway and can unload up to 300 cars in 24 hours which is equal to approximately 25,800 tons of prairie grain.
Cascadia Terminal...this place, a grain elevator in Vancouver,B.C....a place where many kids used to hang out and get high and make out, a ruin of sorts, even though it is still operating. A large industrial space within the city, on the water, giving one the feeling of space, of being maybe further out in the country. There even used to be a squat there in an industrial bldg. near the property for a bit.
Since shooting this film Cascadia Terminal has become  tied up with "homeland security" type port issues, and it is not possible to go and hang out there anymore.

AWARDS
2005 Judges Award Northwest Film and Video Festival

"Scoured, flaring, sepia-toned images of ruined waterfront buildings.  Accompanied by dense rich sound design, this 'portrait"'of an abandoned place is at once soothing and transfixing." 
Michael Almereyda, judge NWFF, director NADJA and Shakespeare's HAMLET