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All I’ve Ever Known (2015) is a performance video about the back and forth pull of relationships, the taking and giving, and what comes out through these struggles. The film situates tenderness, moments of mutual warmth and the familiarity with comfortable and recognizable patterns, alongside, what comes from that.
-Shirin Towfiq |
Disruption of Thought (2015) explores the space of dreams and the unconscious, with a focus on vision and its distortions. The film juxtaposes imagery of the self and its reflections with external spaces, dealing with themes of discomfort, anxiety, and the desire to be somewhere else.
-Jensen Young |
Moving along the lines of irony, Fox in a Box (2015) is an animated short film centered around a stuffed animal and the protective box case he is prisoner to. Utilizing 3D as its primary platform, this film works with the notions of a cheerful, bright, and plushy atmosphere to discuss the quiet subjects of self-worth and what lies beyond the afterlife.
- Ryan Davis |
Kitano and I (2015) examines the inspiration and mental state of a personal creative journey. The work seeks to create a conversation between the artist and his inspiration, Kitano Takeshi, who in his works has been highly self-conscious and self-criticized. The work also uses exaggerating imagery to represent an extreme state of mind of engaging with the art making process and the seeking of meanings.
-Yan Shi |
Mannequin Nation (2015) is a mockumentary which confronts beauty standards. The film satirizes unrealistic body standards, and destructive representations of men and women with mannequins. The mockumentary Mannequin Nation follows mannequins who are protesting and voicing their outrage and disapproval about how they are used in the industry. They are demanding a change!
- Tara Baghdassarian |
This narrative piece is designed to explore an internal, diary-like, state of mind. Naked Human (2015) is experimental in its structure, composed of multiple "type writer poems" written by Christopher Poindexter. The overall theme has become a reflection on the human struggle to find and make sense of the self and its purpose.
-Haley Seppa Nude (2015) is an experimental film meditating on repercussions. Overlapping expressionist imagery, the human figure, and lyrical sound nuance consequence, as well as unique sensitivity and fragility associated with female identity.
-Sara Emsaki Once Upon A Time (2015) is a stop motion film which retells the popular Chinese folktale of the Weaver and the Cowherd, combining both Western and Eastern concepts of folktales. The film arouses comfort and wonder, and inspires the feeling of delving into a good story. Inspired by the notion of a fate, the film is inspired by a fate that is found ‘in the stars’, as well as the East Asian belief in the ‘red thread of fate’; Bringing together soul mates no matter how the stars align, or tangled and long the thread is.
-Hannah Kim Silver and Light (2015) is a short expose on darkroom analog photography. It performs as a salvage ethnography by capturing the remnants of a once dominant form of image making. The film utilizes the experience of a darkroom printer to showcase the interesting dynamic of forming images in light, only to make them in darkness. Silver film captures an image through an impression of light, but it can only be developed and printed into existence through a process that occurs solely in darkness and solitude.
-Dakota Rose SNAP (2015) tells the story of the Special Needs Aquatic Program, a volunteer-based organization devoted to providing a safe, inclusive environment where kids with disability swim, make friends, and most importantly, have fun. Volunteers work one-on-one with kids helping with various special needs, providing aquatic therapy or swimming lessons, depending on their swimmer’s mobility. Through interview footage the film shares the lives of people involved in SNAP.
-Nikki Duong Standard Breathing (2015) illustrates the subtle suffocation of self, under the influence of highly utilized forms of popular American media and entertainment. The plastic bag, essentially insinuates, these common pastimes are smothering unconscious Americans into habitual states of docility.
-Bridget Michele Cuevas The Devil Wants My Soul (2015) takes the temptation of sin into a material form. Evil is presented as a physical entity attempting to seduce its counterpart, innocence, in a contemporary dance performance.
-Irene Chen three four fifteen (2015)
mundane motion of in between rears retina rhythmically into reverie as hypnotic presence presents opportunity of opening ordinarily overlooked into purer perceptive perspection mindful mental states induced by mindful mantras of mindful repetition, mindful redundancy, mindful repetition, mindful redundancy, and mindful repetition. renewal resurrection reception rebirth restoration revival resurrection revival regeneration revival repetition revival reformation revival rebirth -André Christopher Villa Time Ephemeral (2015) is an experimental narrative exploring the notion of time. Through the eyes of one man, the value of time is depicted as two stories develop unlike one another, yet simultaneously. Each story takes place in a day in the life of one single man, while another journey unfolds throughout. This film encourages on going reflection and shifts perspective about time and it’s meaning in our lives.
-Grecia Dedios |