The Ties That Bind
Various directors, USA, 2021, 65 min
May 11 - 17
Performance, video diaries, and the supernatural combine in this striking collection of shorts, featuring stories of enchantment, trauma, and resilience through the building and severing of bonds.
"Flight Risk" is my most ambitious project to date, other than “Utopia” (a pilot episode that is currently in production) and is a prequel to the “Starseed + Her Psychic Warriors'' comic- and web-series, with events that take place even before the first comic book, which introduces Alice, Wren and Sage to the alien refugee, Starseed. My approach to this short film was to strip my origin story of all its science-fiction/fantastic elements and produce what remained: a series of flashback scenes. The result of this experiment was a down-to-earth drama that proves that at the heart of my maximalist, most outrageous work is very real, gritty humanity. My aspiration with this short film is to challenge genre conventions, blur audience demographics and exhibit strong writing and performances.
- Year2021
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSophia Pierre
- FilmmakerSophia Pierre
- CastLead: Chloe Broeker, Daphne Nitsuga, Hadar Zusman; Supporting: Martin Davis, Bohdan Havrylyshyn, Ana Ortiz-Monasterio Draa
- CinematographerLooloo Xiao
- Production DesignMari Xiao
- Sound DesignJakub Laukhuf
The Ties That Bind
Various directors, USA, 2021, 65 min
May 11 - 17
Performance, video diaries, and the supernatural combine in this striking collection of shorts, featuring stories of enchantment, trauma, and resilience through the building and severing of bonds.
"Flight Risk" is my most ambitious project to date, other than “Utopia” (a pilot episode that is currently in production) and is a prequel to the “Starseed + Her Psychic Warriors'' comic- and web-series, with events that take place even before the first comic book, which introduces Alice, Wren and Sage to the alien refugee, Starseed. My approach to this short film was to strip my origin story of all its science-fiction/fantastic elements and produce what remained: a series of flashback scenes. The result of this experiment was a down-to-earth drama that proves that at the heart of my maximalist, most outrageous work is very real, gritty humanity. My aspiration with this short film is to challenge genre conventions, blur audience demographics and exhibit strong writing and performances.
- Year2021
- Runtime22 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSophia Pierre
- FilmmakerSophia Pierre
- CastLead: Chloe Broeker, Daphne Nitsuga, Hadar Zusman; Supporting: Martin Davis, Bohdan Havrylyshyn, Ana Ortiz-Monasterio Draa
- CinematographerLooloo Xiao
- Production DesignMari Xiao
- Sound DesignJakub Laukhuf