Directed by Phil Hamilton '10. Kyle is envious of his young friend's facial birthmark. He really wants to have the "cool" mark his friend has, going to great lengths to try to get one.
Department of Visual & Media Arts
Student Work
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Film by Jessica Schoen '11 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Andrew Vella '11 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Rene Dongo '11 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Sean Hanley '10 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Matthew Hashiguchi G'12 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Alexander Yan '11 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Alex Peach G'12 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Film by Kevin Mastman '10 for the 11th Annual Emerson Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA in March 2011
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Directed by Jessica Schoen '11. Working as a coat check attendant in a downtown hotel lobby, a young woman develops a crush on a man who checks his coat every day. The film develops the budding romance by showing us private moments the woman has with objects from the man's coat.
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Directed by Corbett Jones '11. This light-hearted documentary takes a look at the changing nature of outdoor camping. By incorporating his own family's experiences with camping, the filmmaker is able to analyze the differing ways others have approached the activity.
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Directed by Kady Buchanan '09 and Jason Blanchard '09. Mark John Solomon is an ex-convict suffering from drug and alcohol addiction who lives on the streets of Central Square, an area known for its history of homelessness.
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Directed by Rene Dongo '11. A series of readers directly address President Obama about the nature of our racist history and how this relates to present-day prisons.
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Directed by Nathaniel Hansen, MFA '11. Pat has owned a downtown Boston consignment store for many years. Her life's work celebrates the eclectic, prized world of collectible and antiques artfully displayed throughout her store.
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Directed by Ilya Polyakov. Amid the hustle and bustle of an urban sidewalk, a simple table mysteriously appears. The table becomes the focal point for a community of people who also begin to recognize each other.
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Directed by Tim Earle and Jay Lewis. After a heated break up, a young couple tries to live together in the same apartment. Struggling to make sense of where they are at, each uses word magnets to break the ice.
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Directed by Daniel Scheinert. In this brief meditation, we see a young couple coming together, cultivating their love for one another, and drifting apart.
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Directed by Jesse Fleece
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Directed by Danny Madden. A seventh-grade student must present a project of a mammal. The problem is, it is "due tomorrow." Because he has waited until the last minute to complete the project, he must come up with some ingenious ways to complete the assignment.
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Directed by David Altobelli. A rich, moody piano score underlies this family drama of anger, deceit, and break-up seen through the eyes of the son, Willy. Having to endure a wisdom tooth extraction at the hands of his oral surgeon father, the son uses his piano talent to comment on his family.
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Directed by Sam Molleur. An innocent line sketch on an artist’s desk comes to life and we enter the world of the “created” who walks about town and draws himself a companion. With a beautiful musical score, we enter the world of creativity and sweet romance.
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Directed by Julian Higgins. A well-intentioned, middle-aged man named Chen leaves China for the first time to visit Justin, a young relative living in the United States. When he arrives, however, Justin seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
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Directed by Paris Pickard. A young woman’s sexual awakening metaphorically corresponds to an oncoming storm outside her bedroom. Through deliberately controlled set design, director Pickard transforms the bedroom into an expressionistic boat set adrift in a raging tempest.
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Directed by Kyle Glowacky. A “moving wallpaper” evokes the work of noted American avant-gardist, Stan Brakhage. This hand-painted film dynamically expresses pure visual movement and energy.
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Directed by Daniel Mercadante. Watch carefully. If you blink, you might miss it.
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Directed by Daniel Mercadante. Electric light bulbs come to life and crawl about in this surreal animated film. Using the gray scale of black-and-white film to great effect, director Mercadante explores the subterranean world of bulbing.
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Directed by Carolyn Polonsky. This documentary looks at the contradictory role Christianity can play in the lives of gay and lesbian people.
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Directed by Nicole Prowell. This documentary explores the nature of happiness through the eyes of a woman going through a “quarter-life crisis.” Structured as a journey from Boston to Seattle, the filmmaker interviews people across the country about happiness.
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Directed by Jesse Kreitzer. Jerome Richard Pearlswig is the self-proclaimed “number one celebrity photographer and autograph hound in Boston.” As our character pours through old photo albums, we view an array of celebrities including Ronald McDonald and Jay Leno ’73.
It was the culmination of their college experience. For their BFA film project, Joseph Rechtman (Dec) ’11, Daniel Gamache ’11, and Jared Kowalczyk ’11 created Gem of the West, an atypical Western flick.
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