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Anywhere (2015) considers loneliness and solitude, and how together these experiences create an endless cycle. Utilizing the city as an embodiment of this revolution, the film makes an homage to Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984).
-Yan Shi |
brēkōˈ- läzh (2015) This experimental short film considers the appropriative nature art and the co-opting of pre-existing ideas and resources. It works to highlight the way we are surrounded by stories, both the lived narratives, and the lived- in narratives- of experience.
-Haley Seppa |
Circles (2015) plays with the perception and the experience of time and space. The ideas of progression and regression are animated through 3d modeling and told and retold through the vehicle of a cyclical dream. The character wakes up and believes the nightmare is over- but as the animation continues, the character finds themselves awakening to different moments of the same dream.
-Ryan Davis |
Down the Rabbithole (2015) considers the invention of the door as a part of one wall, which separates or jointly shares two spaces held together by a hinged door. Down the Rabbit Hole uses both literal and symbolic visual language and narrative to consider the construction of time and dimensionality, varying perspectives and multiple meanings.
-Hannah Kim |
Last Night (2015) is a sobering flashback and dramatization of the late night, using dual screen and sound to personify the baffling quiet of the morning after. Last Night attempts to reconcile the feeling of the heightened experience with the vacuous quality of the hangover.
-Irene Chen Lost (2015) Draws an analogous relationship between lost objects and lost souls. By juxtaposing the “life” of lost objects with the concept of being lost in one’s own abstract train of thought. Lost imbues innate objects with deeply human circumstances and considers the existential nature of the human condition.
-Nikki Duong Open (2015) situates the transportive nature of memory between habit and the unexpected, the familiar and the unknown. Through distortion of sound and focus time and linear the narrative is disrupted.
-Jensen Young Retinitis Pigmentosa (2015) is an experimental film that studies light, distortion, color, feelings of disconnection, detachment, fear, and displacement. The film liberates the audience from the constraints of narrative and instead engages them with visual appearances.
-Sara Emsaki Softer (2015) narrates along with it’s soundtrack, the transformation of emptiness into comfort by depicting everyday moments and rich sensory experiences which are common; moments and experiences which are both insignificant and magnificent in a day.
-Bridget Michele Cuevas Soil and Iron (2015) introduces a complex dialectic between industrial and agricultural workers that reside within the synthesized ‘wilderness’ of a rural farming community. The film emphasizes the mechanical aspects of farmed land in contrast to the seemingly more ‘wild’ landscape of the open sea--lands less micromanaged by mankind, through the use of diegetic sound.
-Dakota Rose The Road to My Haven (2015) is a short film which interprets life as an intersecting accident of spectacular circuitry and chaos resolved only in the afterlife. The Road to My Haven follows the life of a man, after a tragic accident, who enters death where he reunites with his lover.
-Grecia Dedios The Sufi Dance: Our Mind’s Choreography (2015) Using fluctuations in sound, motion, and timelapse, the film short performs a perfect imbalance, and the orchestration of many moving organisms. The Sufi Dance: Our Mind’s Choreography considers the ephemeral nature of transcendent states of being.
-Tara Baghdassarian |