Pam Minty

High Lakes

High Lakes combines staged scenes along with observational documentary recordings of summer housekeeping work at a lakeside resort in the Oregon Cascades. The film’s voice-over sound track includes interviews with family, friends and colleagues discussing their own past work experiences. These voices are accompanied by personal reflections of Minty’s time working in resort housekeeping, and raises questions about precarious work, both its place in the economy, and what it means for the future of work.

Camellia Portraits 1-5

An unidentified family photograph is the starting point for an exploration of the films subject, the Camellia.

Camellia Portraits 1-5

An unidentified family photograph is the starting point for an exploration of the films subject, the Camellia.

Camellia Portraits 1-5

An unidentified family photograph is the starting point for an exploration of the films subject, the Camellia.

Direct Route

Direct Route ​observes a blind woman navigating her domestic surroundings, presented alongside landscape images and the retelling of memories prior to losing her vision. Through conversations, and the solving of word puzzles with her daughter, a story emerges about the relationship between memory and the texture of experience. Shot on location in Eugene, North Bend/Coos Bay, and many points between, memory based recollection provided the shot list for Direct Route ​in lieu of the visually motivated process of traditional location scouting. The use of tools for non­visual navigation serve as counterpoint to the landscape images.

Other Duties as Assigned

Interview with Tracy Cutts describing her experiences as an assistant to John Hughes on the classic 1984 film Sixteen Candles.

Bond Butte, Oregon 2013-14

A series of images of Bond Butte off Interstate 5, taken each month over the course of a year.

Rev

Experimental direct animation by filmmaker Pam Minty.

Empty Quarter

A brooding, deceptively rich series of near-static shots of farms, factories, townscapes, and—in dispassionate middle distance—people going about their mundane daily tasks in sparsely populated southeastern Oregon.