Short films

Overview "7th Night is an experimental short film that tells the story of a young Chinese woman's encounter with her dead grandfather's spirit on the 7th Night after his death. As a queer woman, and a granddaughter, she fights to break free from her conventional Asian household and at the same time, stumbles on her self-exploration journey, seeking acceptance from her family and herself. This film tries to uncover the patriarchal powers over Asian women that have long been excused under the cultural...

Overview "18 Years: A Letter to Zora is a proof-of-concept episode for a series, Onyx and the Chronicle of the Seers. This film is a piece of speculative fiction within the tradition of Afrofuturism. The story revolves around a line of women who have the ability to commune across space and time with the aid of their special meditation jewelry and their extrasensory Empathic abilities to show each other memories and visions through ritual. We follow Quasheba Blackstone, our protagonist on earth in the...

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"A short documentary film chronicles the challenges of a full-time dementia caregiver. Leandra Manos is 45 years old, single, unemployed, and a full-time caregiver to her 84-year-old father, who has dementia. According to the Alzheimer's Association, one in three U.S. seniors will die while suffering from Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. This short film looks at the challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia." -- Abstract

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"Asen, father of five is dead. His five children: Devon, Roe, Sage, Mason and Zoey; twenty eight to eight attend his funeral. As they sit in the church, the all remember him. What kind of man was Asen ? In the end who decides what's true?." -- Abstract

Overview "Before Completion is a short film about a painter's creative process: Lydia is a young artist who just received her first offer to paint for a gallery opening exhibition. When struggling for the best inspiration, she had a dream about different eyes and woke up feeling the urge to draw them out. Used up her imagination, Lydia started to look for a perfect subject in real life. She met this beautiful woman in a park but missed her out of miscommunication eventually. Confronting her...

Overview "Blue Bird is a six 16mm projector performance of the journey of a bird's soul to find its body, also a journey into self. The work reflects my personal journey to find myself as well as my meditations on the relationship between spirit and body and the struggle to accept and love myself. Through the continuous changing of the 16mm film loops on the projectors, choreography their movement, and creation of visual effects with prisms, I aspire to create a liminal space that engulfs the viewer...

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"Blue Rebellion is a project featuring a multimedia exhibition, as well as short-film documentary called, "Out of the Blue' which explores the story and colonial history of natural indigo dye, an indigenous product of Bengal that is now being revived in Bangladesh, through slow and sustainable fashion by local artisans and entrepreneurs. It is a project celebrating an important artisanal craft that exists at the intersection of indigenous expression and colonial legacy." -- Abstract

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"Blue Square is a short narrative fiction film in the horror/comedy genre. The film was written and produced with the intent to dissect the caricature of the tortured artist, criticize the popular romanticism of an imagined link between creative talent with severe mental illness, and use the genre conventions of cosmic horror to visually represent the anxieties and fears that come with creating art in any medium." -- Abstract

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"Breach is a 20-minute short fiction film that explores issues of boundaries between friends, trust, and privacy between lovers from an angle of a failing relationship. It tells of a day when Chen, a woman mid-20s, with suspicion of her partner Tom's loyalty, seeks proofs of infidelity in Tom's phone in a fight." -- Abstract

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"Bulletproof Bandit is a female led dystopian short film that follows Bandit as she finds her voice in a world of chaos. This story is grounded in the need for Bandit to get life saving medicine for her sister Luna, with the help of their friend Mirah. However, at its core, it explores the world of passive and active resistance, survival, living life, and the powerful role of art in a broken society." -- Abstract

Overview "How isolated can we feel in a foreign country? How much do we feel the need to constantly stay connected with our family? And how do we cope with the fear of losing the traditions transmitted by our loved ones? Working with a collection of Home movies filmed by my grandfather from his time in Morocco, and a series of recordings of conversations I've had with my grandmother, Call Home reflects on the preservation and transmission of the memory taking the form of a visual poem." --...

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"Colour is a twelve minute still image short film. The film portrays a unique relationship between a young girl and a toy seller and the influence of his tales with moral lessons on the girl's outlook to life. She breaks the shackles that is imposed on her by her parents and learns to embrace life and especially youth." -- Abstract

Overview "Divine Providence is a narrative short film set in and inspired by the city of Providence, Rhode Island. Building on the city's history of organized crime and taking place during the winter of 1978, the film follows a tumultuous confession that brings the lives of a lonely parish priest and a guilt-ridden mobster crashing together, forcing the two men to tear open old wounds and confront the demons of their respective pasts. A dialogue-driven chamber piece, Divine Providence explore...

Overview "In a thematic retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," a man is forced to bring his elderly mother home from her nursing home after she is evicted on grounds of non-payment. She has severe dementia that gets worse the longer he attempts to care for her, and eventually he begins to wonder if she would simply be better off dead. "Dolores" explores themes of grief and guilt before a loved one's passing, the role of men as caregivers, and a broken healthcare system that abandons...

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"A middle-aged landscaper reflects on his decision to abandon his athletic ambitions and reevaluates his pursuit of the American Dream." -- Abstract

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"My thesis project is a narrative short movie, around 20 mins. The story is about three young friends reunites to dig out three bottles they buried when they were high school students. During this journey, three of them have to face their life dilemma." -- Abstract

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"Fever is an absurd short film that follows a man trying to poke his eye out with a pencil. Taking inspiration from Samuel Beckett's absurdist plays, Buster Keaton's slapstick antics, the elastic logic of Looney Tunes and low budget horror sleaze, Fever is a live action silicone flesh cartoon. The original name for this project was Days of Celebration which is sometimes why it is referred to as such in this document." -- Abstract

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"The visual elements of Fish is presented in the form of experimental narrative short Film. This project examines the flow of consciousness and awareness. It initially characterizes scenes in a more or less standard fashion, describing mental conflicts as 'detachment of image an sound'. But as movie progresses, it introduces several religious elements that serves to catalyze the conflicts between conscious and subconscious." -- Abstract

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"Free Car is a narrative fiction short film about two friends, Turner and Sam, at the end of their childhood. Turner is anxious to leave for college in a week while Sam is already mourning the impending loss of his friend. In an attempt to squeeze one last adventure out of their time together, Sam convinces Turner to help him steal a car. The gravity of the situation becomes clear after the car blows a tire and the pair discover a dead body in the trunk." -- Abstract

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"Happy to Be With You is a short narrative that depicts the emotional bond between an old woman and her lifelong AI robot. It raises the discussion of the potential relationship between humans and AI. It is also a film about companionship." -- Abstract