SCREENINGS

GRIEF STICK has been named an official selection of Oregon Documentary Film Festival Winter 2025! This event will take place on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at the Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR 97202, USA.

Nominated in the Best Documentary category.

After 30 years separated by time and circumstance, poet Alex Behr reunites with lost love Chris Hartman, her “car guy” from San Francisco.

In the fall of 2020, during the Covid lockdown, Chris becomes sick with an accelerated, fatal illness, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). He dies in their dining room on October 6, 2020.

Grief Stick explores the contours of love and death, using photographs, voicemails, and video.

a dogwood ink & northern flicker films co-production

produced by Alex Behr

edited & directed by Brian Padian

Chris Hartman, December 8, 1959 to October 6, 2020

This film received generous support from a Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts 3C grant.

film requests and questions: northernflickerfilms@gmail.com