Feature Films
Lake Street Detective
"A really fantastic film... I love this film so much.. I most highly recommend (it) to everyone!" - Cyn Collins, KFAI radio
"Recommended" - The Stranger
LAKE STREET DETECTIVE (2017) stars Paul Dickinson ("wonderful" in Tired Moonlight (2015) New York Times) in a low tech comedy about a poet-detective searching a Midwest metropolis for a mysterious thief -from high society to the underground, in a laconic Midwestern take on Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye" about character, class, and the hard-scrabble Minnesota art life.
Clinton Street Theater, Portland; The Grand Illusion, Seattle; Film Noir Cinema, NY; Turf Club, St. Paul; Hook & Ladder Theater, Minneapolis; Cinema Minneapolis touring festival (various) The Mall of America; The Parkway Theater
Beach Town
“Best of the Fest... nails the dynamics of a rinky-dink music scene in a small town ... great original songs.”- Tony Kay, The Sunbreak
“Retro charm.. briny, wistful…” Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly
Inspired more by films like People on Sunday (1930) than Frankie and Annette, BEACH TOWN (2013) is a rock and roll beach movie of the mind -- an unabashedly atmospheric look at the lives of young people whose art is ineffably linked with their surroundings in a low-rent coastal community. This Two-Lane Blacktop of beach movies was shot entirely in Seattle, USA on glorious, Super-16 color film, with an upbeat summertime soundtrack of over 30 original songs and plenty of sunshine for all.
Seattle International Film Festival 2015. Seoul International Youth Film Festival (Korea), Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival (Michigan), Bellingham Music Film Festival (Washington), Kino Palais Neuvo Wave series. (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, USA), Alta Fidelidad Ill Muestra de Cine Documental Musical (Bogota, Colombia)
Time of the Robots
Watch the first three minutes of the film
"...a rip-roaring narrative" City Arts Magazine
"...wonderfully charming...one-of-a-kind joy" Garen Daily, New Hampshire Public Radio
"...idiosyncratic " The Oregonain
"...bustling good fun" - Northwest Filmmakers' Festival
"A uniquely imaginative, bizarrely delightful narrative that creates a new experience highly reminiscent of early cinema" - Beckie Stocchetti
TIME OF THE ROBOTS (2012) is an epic silent space opera about a robot-based alien invasion. Featuring unique visuals created by meticulously modifying and editing thousands of hours of silent and serial film footage, it's a new silent sci-fi B-movie made from B-movies, for people who love B-movies that uses an original story, musical score, and sound design to create a new experience highly reminiscent of early cinema.
Northwest Filmmaker's Festival, LoneStar Con, Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival, Grand Illusion Cinema
Love My Guts
"I liked it! It's not like anything else I've seen!" - Stan Brakhage
"Charming" - Tablet
"In Love My Guts (1999), the air grows warm, spring days turn to summer nights, and two young artists hope to find love in each other. Mumblecore before it was cool.
Seattle Underground Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum Local Sightings
Short Films
The Last City in the East
"Beautifully shot in Super 8 and Holga.. sharp-witted, imagery-rich wording." - Sheila Regan, CityPages
Full of grit , humor and a mystical urban romanticism, Paul D. Dickinson soars in THE LAST CITY IN THE EAST (2011) a surprise triumph of a film.
Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival; Illinois International Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, Co-Kisser Poetry Film Festival, SENE festival, Frozen River Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum Local Sightings; IFP Minnesota; Film 4M.
The Boulevard of Semi-Reconstructed Dreams
THE BOULEVARD OF SEMI-RECONSTRUCTED DREAMS (2018) starring Shane Regan, Sarah Winsor, Steven Sterne
International Premiere
Exploding Cinema!
Cinema Museum, LONDON
US Premiere
Tacoma Film Festival
New York Premiere
Roxy Underground Film Festival
Recipient of the Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grant