Portuguesa

Last night Mary Beth and I went up to Crosstown to see some Portuguese film shorts as presented by Indie Memphis. This was at the 430 gallery, which looks like is soon to no longer be in the hands of Crosstown Arts. The beautiful neon sign it's had is now gone and there's weird wood panel overlaying the exterior on top of the bricks that looks weird and out of place and stupid. Looks like Crosstown's been moving stuff out as well as this maybe is one of the last events to be held there. Not sure on any specifics, just impressions. The movies were good anyway. The last one was these peasants pulling a guy out of a well and it was slowly paced and had almost no dialog and just had the feeling and visuals/composition of an old painting (I think it was called Redemption or something like that?). That was my favorite. There was also one about hydrangeas overtaking the Azores islands and it was really good (it was called Flora or Flowers or something like that). Today was the last day of Big Room Planning, the half day. So I was there for that half the day and then come home just now a little after. Soon I'll be off to Big Ears!