China 1987: From There to Here We're going from one place to another in China in 1987. From Guangzhou to Guilin.
Runtime: 7:55
Directed by: Harry Roseman
Harry Roseman received a BFA at Pratt. He was a tenured professor of Art at Vassar College. Over the years his art career moved between genres, sculpture, drawing, photography, and video. His work is in a number of major museums including, The Cincinnati Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, The Menil Collection, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Walker Art Museum. Two of his most ambitious public commissions are in the NYC Subway and JFK Airport. Recently he had two small animations at the Blue Star Animation Festival in San Antonio, TX. His film Temple of the Six Banyan Trees was screened at the Video and Experimental Film Festival, NYC, in 2023. His work can be seen on Vimeo and YouTube. The video he is submitting for this screening is the 13th in the ongoing China 1987 series.
RECIFE TEM UM CORAÇÃO Silvo Silva, known as a brega phenomenon in Recife (Brazil), performs a live broadcast with his followers to try to buy a new bluetooth speaker.
Runtime: 20:00
Directed by: Rodrigo Sena
Rodrigo Sena, an award-winning director, has directed short films such as "O Menino do Dente de Ouro," which won the Gostoso Festival, and "Cuscuz Peitinho," which won the Vitória Film Festival. He also directed "A Tradicional Família Brasileira Katu," which won the Brasília Film Festival. He wrote, directed, and photographed "Encantarias," a three-episode TV series, and is currently developing his first feature film.
Crazy Cat Lady: A Documentary About Rhonda A short documentary about Rhonda, my neighbor, who takes care of the cats that prowl the neighborhood.
Runtime: 7:22
Directed by: Edward Loupe
Edward Loupe is a student filmmaker from Lawrence, Kansas. He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 2017 with a BFA in Film Directing. He is currently attending the graduate film production program at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio to obtain an MFA in film production.
Pipe
Runtime: 8:31
Directed by: Ben Gordon
Lightning in a Bottle Archives of historic media reports and scenes of fictional spaces blend to reconstruct the closure of Pittsburgh’s Schenley High School. As classrooms become luxury apartments, former students confront the politics of memory, contested histories, and the covert violence of public space converted into private real estate.
Runtime: 10:30
Directed by: Chantal Feitosa-Desouza
Chantal Feitosa-Desouza is a Brazilian United Statesian from Queens, New York. She is a filmmaker, a learner, and a facilitator of workshops and public events beyond the traditional classroom setting. Her practice is guided by the visual process of collage and its potential to create new histories from found fragments. Her work is always proposing slower methods of thinking, remembering, and storytelling for an audience. Chantal holds an MFA in Art with a focus on filmmaking and social practice from Carnegie Mellon University. She received her BFA in film/animation/video from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has screened at locations including Bodega Film Festival, Harlem International Film Festival, Vidlings & Tapeheads, and Silver Eye Center for Photography. She was an artist in residence at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Residency Unlimited, and Smack Mellon.
Stroad Movie
“A kaleidoscopic portrait of the landscape designed to be everything.”
A "stroad" is the bastard offspring of a “street” and a “road”. Any functional landscape reveals its purpose at a glance. The stroad may contain markings that dictate behavior or inspire feelings of existential dread. If you can resist the powerful currents of consumer destiny, even for a moment, you may discover that getting lost is the path to freedom.
Runtime: 9:59
Directed by: Pablo Nez Garcia
Pablo Nez Garcia is a New Jersey filmmaker fretting over macro and microscopic queer contradictions while employing the hifalutin confidence of a film director. Offering alternative perspectives through animation and analog techniques, they explore themes around ephemera, capitalist subconscious, and the logic puzzle of communicating through filmmaking. Pablo graduated from Rutgers University in 2024 with a BFA in Filmmaking. Their films have shown at festivals, galleries, and live events across the US including Slamdance, AIFVF, and the SoMad gallery.
The Fastest Boxer in the World BE YOURSELF. A one day shot-on-video odyssey in the life of Matthew Morales, the fastest boxer in the world.
Runtime: 8:21
Directed by: Griffin Conner
Dear Motek An intergenerational relationship is challenged when a grandmother’s allegiance to moral purity and isolated worship lead her to a premature welcoming of the afterlife.
Runtime: 13:44
Directed by: Gabi Rudin
Gabi Rudin is a filmmaker and video editor living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and New York. Her nonfiction films search for communion and mystical significance in a secular, tangible world susceptible to loneliness and isolation. Through mixing archival sound and image, film and video, her films unravel the entangled intimacies of intergenerational questioning.
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Runtime: 3:34
Directed by: Abigél Dérczy
Abigél Dérczy is a Hungarian animator and illustrator. She studies animation at MOME in Budapest and did exchange studies at the animation and film studio at UMPRUM in Prague. In her works, she enjoys exploring her personal life and lighter themes in a surreal and humorous way.