Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Lebensborn, 2001
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2001
Lemming drop, 2005
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Lemming Drop, a 20 minute documentary, is a light-hearted examination of the myth of lemming suicide. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
Let's Go Kill Your Father, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_rodriguez_isabella.pdf
Overview
"LET'S GO KILL YOUR FATHER is a dark comedy and drama centered around a mother-daughter road trip that explores the complicated gravity of grief and guilt. Sprinkled with comedic levity, the film's emotional arc is tethered between the creation of one life and the ending of another. A young Cuban woman completing in vitro fertilization is suddenly jolted into a mission of the opposite nature when her estranged, sickly father asks her to travel from Miami to Portland to euthanize him. She...
Dates:
2021
Let's speak Korean, 1999
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1999
Letters For Julian, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cortes_maria.pdf
Overview
"Letters for Julian is a coming-of-age dramedy about a Boston teenager who, after a sudden death of his mother, learns that he has an older brother who was given up for an adoption at an early age. Exploring themes of family ties, the importance of friendships and human connection, the script follows one main character through his journey on discovering what true family stands for, which leads to a final realization that sometimes blood ties are not the strongest, and our home is truly where...
Dates:
2019
LIAR a fascinating tale from beyond tomorrow, 2004
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Liar is an exploration of the Science Fiction genre.
Dates:
2004
Life does go on, 2006
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This is a documentary that intertwines memories of the filmmaker's deceased father, and the stories of two people who are facing serious illnesses. This documentary has an abstract structure in that it re-enacts the filmmaker['s] memories and combine[s] t
Dates:
2006
Life never ends, 2001
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2001
Life path, 2015
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Overview
A meditation on the past, constructed from past life regression therapy sessions and footage captured in the desert landscapes. Life Path is an exploration of memory and time. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Life 'time', 2002
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From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2002
Life's A Zoo, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_kendig_lauren.pdf
Overview
"Life's A Zoo is a half-hour workplace comedy about a group of people working for the education department at the over a hundred year old Elohi Zoo. We follow the daily ups and downs of the dream team; director of education Betty and her second in command Marcus, the former public school teachers turned zoo educators Victoria and Stephan, the education animal outreach Dawn and Mia, and newcomer office secretary Katie. Their main goal, to share their passion for animals and to educate the...
Dates:
2024
Light Catchers, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_roberts_jarrod.pdf
Overview
"This project is a pilot and limited series for a run of ten episodes, revolving around a lone-wolf criminal assembling a heist team to steal a corporation's secret method of faster-than-light travel. The science fiction and heist hybrid follows the main character around a developed solar system, to recruit maladaptive experts into his team, including his distant mother figure and mentor, an ex-gang member robot, a deaf combat specialist, and a hacker addicted to existing in cyberspace." --...
Dates:
2022
Linxi and Her World, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_liang_xiaoya.pdf
Overview
"'Linxi and Her World' is a 2-channel video installation that explores the artist's first motherhood, and her daughter Linxi's early childhood. All the footage was shot in 2020 when Linxi was between 2-3 years old. It was also when social distancing and wearing masks became a daily routine. In this installation, two experimental videos are projected onto the wall across from each other. The two videos share the same length and they start and finish simultaneously. On one side, the shaky...
Dates:
2021
Lions' Heads, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_li_ruoyu.pdf
Overview
"'Lions' Heads is a short Chinese family drama that follows an over-caring mother who surprises her son with an overseas visit. While the film's delicious food elements create a warm family tone, at its core the story explores underlying themes of anxiety and depression in international student communities and domestic violence." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Liquid gold and Maybe later, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_savini_nicole.pdf
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"Liquid Gold is a pilot that sets the background for a half-hour comedy-drama series exploring the lengths single mothers must go to survive. The work confronts toxic gender expectations and our cultural discomfort with the biological female body, in contrast to our obsession with the sexualized female body. Lisette is a recently divorced mother of a new baby and 8-year-old son. In need of income and struggling to re-enter the work force, she discovers an untapped market of bodybuilders,...
Dates:
2018
Little big composers, 2007
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Little Big Composers is children's tool where they can exploit their imagination resulting in beautiful and captivating music stories. It is a standalone interactive application used for composing program music accompanied with narrative and drawing repr
Dates:
2007
Little devil be good, 1999
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1999
Little leaguers, 2010
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Little League Baseball is one of the least commercialized, yet most popular sports around the world. Taiwan, whose teams have always been dominant in the Little League Baseball World Series, in fact provides its players with only a lack of resources and m
Dates:
2010
Living small, 2014
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Documentary project exploring the world of tiny houses, living spaces and the people who inhabit them.--Abstract.
Dates:
2014
Lizard the mod, 2010
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Lizard the Mod is a short film completed for the Masters of Media Arts program at Emerson College. Its visuals and music are meant to titillate, while its simple story of identity crisis is designed to both entertain, and hopefully catalyze some sort of e
Dates:
2010