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Why My Dad Loves
At the age of 13, my father left his homeland, Laos, seeking a brighter future in the United States. Throughout the years, he devoted himself to supporting his family, seldom sharing the details of his past. This film intimately explores the experiences that shaped my father’s understanding of love.
Volador
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Volador’ explores the power of acceptance. Mateo, an 18 year old from Mexico, fights his way through challenges that arise in a place (Grand Rapids) he would describe as dull. He works as a part-time cashier and commercial photographer for Supermercado Mexico. While living in a house that’s constantly throwing parties, he […]
Your Tomorrow
With an historic public park set to close for redevelopment, an eccentric yet lovable group of park regulars and staff members live out its final year open to the public while confronting its controversial transformation into a private spa and waterpark. Filming for nearly 100 days with a fully observational approach, Your Tomorrow documents a […]
Water Lilies
Hyowon, who dreams of becoming an actress, runs away to Seoul with Eunseo, a high school dropout. The two girls step into the sprawling city with their fragile hopes, clutching at its promises like lifelines. Their first home is a basement room, dim and shabby, the air thick and heavy, but to them, it is […]
The Last Rhino
The last of the northern white rhinos is dead. Lili, a rather well-off 70 year-old grandmother, led a comfortable retired life until these news have her dive deep into eco-anxiety. What kind of world will she leave for her granddaughter Gaby?
Virtual Phases
Virtual Phases is an experimental exploration of small and fabricated spaces with techniques often reserved for epic landscape studies and drone exploration. Discarded items such as old fabric, scrap metal, foil blankets, and crumpled paper created cave-like scenes that were filmed with a specialty probe lens to further enhance the unusual qualities of these imagined […]
The Life and Times of G
The Life and Times of G is a single channel version of an immersive four screen video installation that explores the tension between two opposing modes of technology and cognition. Inspired by Ursula Franklin’s concepts of holistic and prescriptive technologies, the piece examines how adaptive, individual-centered processes contrast with rigid, conformity-driven systems that increasingly shape […]
The Newcomer
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Amy forges an intense bond with the ghost in her apartment, risking the erosion of her own identity.