It’s all about leaving and left while we living in the world, we leave people and places, and we were left by people and places. Every view we saw and every person we passed by left us various feelings, and all of these feelings and emotions are tangled in the flow of time and in the process of leaving, at the time we wanted to look back, we realized how far have we gone. Films record the process of the leaving and it provide people to see in different perspectives of the leaving ones and the left ones and perhaps to touch their own feelings.
1. Flaws (Josh Shaffner, color, sound, 02:36min, 2016, California Institute of the Arts)
Rules, powers and classes will divide different paths for different people. There’re ones leave from pain and there’re ones leave from happiness, but most of the time, people are turning circles. 2. Cycle/Recycled (Seiichiro Okuma, color, sound, 08:52min, 2016, Keene State College)
“It is about failures in the past. Thinking in my head, reunited by sound and digital manipulation.” 3. Flaws (Josh Shaffner, color, sound, 02:36min, 2016, California Institute of the Arts)
Rules, powers and classes will divide different paths for different people. There’re ones leave from pain and there’re ones leave from happiness, but most of the time, people are turning circles. 4. A Ghost in his Shadow (Mike Rice, color, sound, 10:17min, 2015, California Institute of the Arts)
The imagery in the film is drawn mostly from surveillance footage of Whitey Bulger. The liquid images suggest a man as an elusive and lurking presence that was described as a living ghost and the realization of a disembodied menace. 5. Fault Lines (Mandy Wong, color, sound, 03:12min, 2016, Rhode Island School of Design)
The passing views of the city became neon and lines. “I only see in neon” 6. Falling (Chris Wittum, color, silent, 03:21, 2015, Ohio State University)
A camera less art piece that was sampled from hundreds of kisses and edited in a fast pace. 7- Zero Sum (Rebecca Shenfeld, color, sound, 06:02min, 2015, Rhode Island School of Design)
“All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.” 8. why to hook hurt ends (Emily M Van Loan, black and white, silent, 01:20min, 2016, Binghamton University)
“A focus on light and texture renders a banal, pedestrian object enchanting.” 9. Songbird (Courtney Kuether, color, sound, 02:17min, 2016, Columbus College of Art and Design)
Ethel, 93 years old, who was too stubborn to move in with her family. With this stop-motion animation, the filmmaker explored her deteriorating memories of past years. 10. The Road to Nowhere (Jack Turpin, color, sound, 08:31min, California Institute of the Arts)
An animation of moving and passing, neon lightens the surroundings and leads to nowhere. |