 Nick sometimes makes films, but most of time works at a Library. His short works have received a handful of "Best Of" awards and played at festivals such as the NW Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and Bumbershoot 1-Reel. Often characterized for their uniqueness and ambition to challenge common narrative film trends, his work has garnered critical praise from filmmakers such as James Benning and Gus Van Sant. His latest film, a musical, is called "yellow" and was shot and edited on 16mm. It features seven-and-a-half original songs recorded with a live ensemble during filming (i.e.: no dubbing)
Currently he lives with two roommates and their pet cat Nori in NE Portland, Oregon. He enjoys biking, red stripe beer, taking pictures with his Rolleiflex, the coast and writing bio's about himself in the "back of a book cover jacket" vein. |
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| posted 2007-07-30 |
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"yellow" is screening in this year's Sound Unseen film festival: Sunday, August 26th at the Ritz Theater (345 13th Ave NE).
Nick - Minneapolis, MN
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| posted 2007-06-06 |
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"yellow" will be screening at the Harvard Film Archive in their upcoming New American Independent Cinema series. "Contingent," "Split Pea Soup," "two" and "frenesi" are also screening in a separate shorts program. Screenings are Thursday, July 5 and Monday, July 9.
Will post times soon...
Nick - Cambridge, MA
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| posted 2007-01-23 |
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"yellow" is screening in the 9th annual SF IndieFest:
Wednesday, February 14th at 12pm
Roxie Cinema (3117 16th St)
Saturday, February 17th at 4:30pm
Roxie Cinema
Nick - San Francisco, CA
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| posted 2006-10-26 |
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"yellow" is screening in this year's Northwest Film and Video Festival: Thursday, November 16th at 7pm at the Whitsell Theater (1219 SW Park Avenue, between Madison and Jefferson on Park)
Also screening in the festival is "two" from the commutation trilogy and my concoction of Anton Webern's famous arrangement of a Bach piece and a portable tracking system, "musical offering". Both are screening in the closing night program with films by Andy Blubaugh and Zak Margolis. Then Andy will be premiering his new film "Scaredycat": Saturday, November 18th at 7pm at the Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St.)
Nick - Portland, OR
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| posted 2006-10-25 |
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"yellow" is screening in the WT Os Film Festival on Friday, November 10th.
Nick - Os, Norway
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| posted 2006-10-09 |
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Our 2 minute ode to Ernie Kovacs and gardening, "Frenesi", will be screening at this years 24fps video and film festival (formerly WESTFest) in Abilene, Texas. Friday, October 20 at 7:30 pm (the first program).
Nick - Abilene, TX
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| posted 2006-09-17 |
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"yellow" screens in NW Film Forum's 9th Annual Local Sightings film festival. Saturday, October 7th at 7pm. Come join us at the screening if you're in the Seattle area.
Nick - Seattle, WA
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| posted 2006-03-14 |
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Our latest film "yellow" will be premiering at the Whitsell theatre (1219 SW Park ave) Thursday, April 20th at 7:30pm. Click here for the program notes in the Film Center's schedule. More info and photos to be posted on this site within the next couple weeks.
Nick - Portland, OR
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"three" will be showing in WESTfest 2005. Screenings are held in the historic Paramount Theatre in Abilene, Texas on Friday, Oct 14th at 7:30pm and Saturday, Oct 15th at 7:30pm.
Nick - Abilene, TX
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"contingent" will be showing in this year's 1 Reel Film Festival (part of Bumbershoot, a Labor Day weekend arts-extraviganza). The screening is Saturday, September 3rd from 7-8pm.
Nick - Seattle, WA
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Nick Peterson's Yellow is a breath of fresh air. Amid the grainy, the gritty, and the grim--in short, in contrast to virtually every other American "first film" out there--Peterson brings the brightness, the brilliance, the wonder, and the mystery of poetry (and song!) to his work. He has the best, the most exciting"eye" of any young filmmaker in my experience. Yellow is visually delicious, acoustically dazzling, and completely original, fresh, and new in its sensibility. And it doesn't hurt that it is deeply perceptive and penetrating as well. It is an eye- and ear-opener of a film--one of my favorite "unknown masterworks" of the past five years.
Ray Carney, professor\author
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...one of the most original features to come out of Portland in recent years.
Northwest Film Forum on "yellow"
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...Peterson has created a winning, offbeat breakthrough.
Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly on "yellow"
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With this feature-length, shot on 16mm film, director Nick Peterson puts himself on the map as Portland’s foremost creator of existentialist romantic musical comedies.
Anne Marie DiStefano, Portland Tribune on "yellow"
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[Nick Peterson] is one of the best young filmmakers I have come across in a long time. His unity of vision is rare and gives me hope for the next generation of American filmmakers.
Gus Van Sant, filmmaker
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...an arresting new talent... "Two" and "Three" are a truly brilliant pair of nearly silent, gorgeously filmed, edited and scored works.
Shawn Levy, The Oregonian
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My favorite narrative film of the festival... [Nick is] Perhaps the best image-maker in the [2003 NW Film Festival].
James Benning, filmmaker on "Three"
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Peterson has quickly become one of the city's most promising writer-directors.
Brian Libby, Willamette Week
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Nick Peterson's short film "Contingent" is brilliant and firmly places the filmmaker at the top of the local talent pool.
David Walker, Willamette Week
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