PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema will have two screenings of films from “Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource” today in Maier Performance Hall.
The first screening will be from 3 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. and is free.
The evening screening will be from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with a charge of $5 for general admission; it’s free for students.
“Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource” is a new media exhibition and film festival comprising 30-second to 30-minute films from 45 artists worldwide.
Altogether, the films total 4 hours and 52 minutes.
The afternoon screening includes “We’re All Downstream,” composed primarily of documentaries, and runs for 74 minutes. There will be a 10-minute intermission, followed by “Our Cup Runneth,” which emphasizes metaphor and runs for 76 minutes.
The evening screening begins with “Every Drop a World,” which centers on emotional resonance and runs 65 minutes.
A 10-minute intermission will be followed by the final showing, which is “A Commons. A Public Trust. A Human Right.” It focuses on community and runs for 75 minutes.
In addition to the afternoon and evening screenings, the film “April” will run in a continuous loop on a monitor in the PUB Gallery of Art, sharing space with an exhibition of local artists’ work related to water. The show was curated by Peninsula College art professor Michael Paul Miller.
