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Catatonia by Angelita Ali is a short experimental piece that explores the idea that the artist is who she is because of the environment she lives in. Peace is unveiled through the sun and the grass while a darker side is shown in crooked signs, dark alleys, and cracked sidewalks. Influenced by video artist Bill Viola and filmmaker Maya Deren, she tells her story without words but in dynamic images.
Dreaming Dali by Tomas Peralta and Malaika Burke is a narrative short adapted from the work of Salvador Dali. While researching Dali's paintings, a girl falls asleep and becomes wrapped in a surrealist nightmare. Dali's paintings come to life and terrorize her and every twist and turn takes her deeper and deeper into a delusional fantasy.
Third Times a Charm by Anthony Rudick. Did you ever wake up with the feeling that your dreams and reality may have crossed paths? Or that you couldn't remember what happened last night? This quirky piece takes the viewer along with a young man who seems to be doomed to repeat a wake up call from his last night's date.
Appointment by Joey Mosca Based on one of the oldest stories in history, a young man encounters Death personified. In a panic, he rushes away and believes that he has escaped. But as we all know, no one can ever really avoid paying the ultimate price.
M. I. N. D. (My Inner Noggin Dissected) by Sarven Tar is about the mysteries of the human mind and how it can conjure up images of one's past. This is an exploration of the mind of the artist in which the audience moves through the smoke and mirrors of his life.
Allegory of the Cubicle by Raul Garcia is a silent short that utilizes the structuralist technique of the extended shot to effect conflict between interior, man-made spaces and external, natural spaces.
Chiaroscuro by Christian Romero Chiaroscuro is a metaphor for life. Dark to light, life to death. Where one road ends another one begins. The journey in between is what makes us who we are. This piece deals with two people at different places in their lives through the eyes of a close observer.
One Day by Tatiana Gonzalez is a piece that explores the artist's life as if it was in reverse and she could rewind time and start over again. She captures candid moments in her day and views them for her own curiosity. Are these captured moments as important as they seem as we are living through them? This experimental narrative explores the artist's life in the present as she moves backwards through "one day."
Desolation by Louis Libitz is a haunting piece shot in the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. The viewer becomes a voyeur searching for a fleeting human presence. Suggestions of surveillance, incarceration, and isolation are enmeshed within the ominous sound design.