John Sullivan, the wonderful Portland luthier, died in April 2007 of cancer. #Before John died, Portland filmmaker Jim Swenson completed a 15-minute video about John called "The Making of Om," taped while John was making a mandolin engraved with the Om symbol. It's a great piece about John's skill as well as his thoughts about making instruments.

The Reel Music Festival, an annual Portland event that features films and videos about music, has accepted The Making of Om, and will be showing it at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 23 in the Whitsell Auditorium in the Portland Art Museum. #Greg Clarke, Stew Dodge, Kevin Healey and Jon Neufeld will perform a few tunes on their Sullivan instruments after the video. The Sullivan video will be followed by a 90 minute film about Les Paul.

Here's more information about the festival.

http://www.nwfilm.org/screenings/?vo...&series=1#1868