Policing Justice Film Series
This series of film screenings at Clinton Street Theater is part of Policing Justice, which is on view at PICA from February 23 – May 19, 2024.
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2015)
By: Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke
US, 84 minutes, 2015
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon documents the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members throughout the past fifty years. The film features personal stories of resistance told by victims of police misconduct, the families of people who were killed by police, and members of Portland’s reform and abolition movements. Utilizing meditative footage taken at sites of police violence, experimental filmmaking techniques, and archival newsreel, Arresting Power creates a space for understanding the impacts of police violence and imagining a world without police.
Short: State of Oregon (2017)
By: Adele Free Pham
US, 10 minutes, 2017
Nearly a year after the death of Larnell Bruce, a black teen from Gresham, Oregon, STATE OF OREGON aims to shed light on the fatal encounter that ended his life--while unpacking the state’s fraught racial history.