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We're Not Telling You to Get High and Go to PAM Tonight

Animation by Design and "the World's Greatest Cat Painting" make for a gooood Friday

By Enid Spitz

It's $5 Friday at PAM! Also, Portland Design Week is still going. In honor of both, the museum is screening a program of abstract, animated shorts from Northwest creatives.

Among the lineup, Marilyn Zornado's Old-Time Film is a 2½-minute ditty in which retro polka dots, lines and schoolbook pictures of trains and things wiggle across the screen. The 6 Is Silent, which is mostly a black background with hand-drawn sketches of trees or monkeys flashing quickly by in neon colors, is actually a music video for the Boston rock band Skyjelly's song about Jim Cowan.

Voilà: 60 minutes of trippy, flashing pictures and then staring at "the world's greatest cat painting" until the museum closes.

Strain recommendation: Violet Delight.

Have a good night.

GO: Animation by Design is at NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium. $5.

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Enid Spitz

Enid Spitz

Former Stage & Screen editor Enid Spitz writes about theater, repertory film, fashion and dance scenes when she’s not doing doing yoga or exploring pop-up events around the city.