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December 14 2023
Thank you to Caffeine Underground for hosting this event!!Ghost of You _ Chloe Xtina
At the apex of a heatwave and California’s fire season, 16-year-old Mae and her sisters become prey to a hidden camera at their hometown creek. As the fires intensify, the suffocating male gaze blurs with Mae’s desire to be watched. A sheet ghost is conjured -- Mae’s phantom representing the convergence of lust and violation within her girlhood.
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Kinetotrope _ Teddy Ogborn
A thaumatrope, derived from the Greek to mean “wonder turner,” is a simple optical toy that gained popularity in Western Europe in the mid-1800s. The user spins a circular card with images on either side, causing the two images to appear as a single composite. The illusion of cinematic motion is similarly rooted in persistence of vision. In this piece, the thaumatrope is extended to the moving image in post-production, in the creation of an ahistorical object which can animate, rather than simply composite, as it spins. The rhythm of this altered thaumatrope generates a broken rhythm for linear editing, offering meter for a visual poem.
Man on Fire _ Sosa Edo
A man becomes possessed and trapped in a tunnel. His grip on reality -fading to black dust- lays bare for his possessor, the tunnel. Performance by Taoheed Bayo, music composed by Auden Woodhall & Alfie Harris
Opal _ Julia Sipowicz
Three gamblers go to the track.
O Earth _ Seamus Slattery
O EARTH is a video piece that reflects on how nature is a space through which queerness and identity are both complicated and find refuge. Using the tactic of critical fabulation to reach for an affective approach of world-building, autobiographical footage is disrupted through editing and special effects to become terrains through which queer disidentity can be felt. O EARTH uses queerness as a field to weave together discourses of ecocriticism, poetics, and memory―but above all else, this piece asks its audience to say goodbye to all that and feel it instead.
Lost Kid Wanderer _ Chelsea Muscat
A lone wanderer reconciles with the idea of love while deciding her future faith as life is coming to an end.
Hawaiian Police _ Neverending Audit
A somewhat literal interpretation of "Hawaiian police", a new song by Neverending Audit. These aren't your average cops, capisce?
Enya Wellness _ Fiona Kane
Video diary about wellness.
PISSPARKER _ Marisa Gershenhorn & Victoria Guillem
Native New Yorker Peter Parker roams the city at night, protecting all types of citizens from evil.
Coral King _ Dylan Mars Greenberg & PONS
Music video by Dylan Mars Greenberg for PONS’s Coral King.
His Smell _ Kalil Haddad
Sebastian’s roommate is away for the weekend.
Short Phrase _ Sagan Lypka
A traveling growth.
[REDACTED] _ Colter Harris
Dealey Plaza. Dallas, TX. March 2023.
Peabrain _ Tony Scalzo
He’s spent just about every friend he’s got and every dollar they gave him. A cautionary dark-comedy about the cycle of being broke and putting your head before your feet; spending whatever dime you get on the vices that make you forget. A soon-to-be feature film.
'<3' _ Kiana Fernandez
