Phases of the Moon is a three-part project unfolding over the course of three evenings and in three locations in and around the Portland Art Museum. Each phase expressed a unique mood reflecting how the moon has acted as a guide to time, influenced the tides and illuminated human endeavors. Phases of the Moon was commissioned by the Northwest Film Center for the 2020 Portland International Film Festival. The theme was Cinema Unbound and our mission was to suggest to festival participants all the things that cinema could be beyond what they had experienced in the past or what they imagined.

Programming platforms MadMapper and Isadora were used to map moving images at monumental scale on the South Wall of the Portland Art Museum'svMark building on March 6, 2020. With The New Moon the mood for this phase will be introspective, quiet and numinous. Dominated by water imagery and imagery from the science of fluid dynamics this phase turned the courtyard into a processional landscape for PIFF viewers.

Work commissioned from the Mobile Projection Unit by the Portland International Film Festival for their Cinema Unbound Awards Ceremony at the Portland Art Museum. The waxing moon suggests more action, more complexity and implications of the arcane and alchemical possibilities of the creative life. The Mobile Projection Unit is Fernanda D'Agostino and Sarah Turner. Sound by Crystal Cortez. Performers Sophia Wright Emigh and Jaleesa Johnston.

Work commissioned from the Mobile Projection Unit by the Portland International Film Festival for their Cinema Unbound Awards Ceremony at the Portland Art Museum. The waxing moon suggests more action, more complexity and implications of the arcane and alchemical possibilities of the creative life. The Mobile Projection Unit is Fernanda D'Agostino and Sarah Turner. Sound by Crystal Cortez. Performers Sophia Wright Emigh and Jaleesa Johnston.