Inspired by the kinetic-sculpture films of Marcel Duchamp, the animated mandalas of Jordan Belson, and '70s grind-house theater intros, Apocryphal Tome utilizes a readymade-assist, (assembled from a lamp-shade, turn-table, and multi-colored light-bulbs) triple-exposed on 200ft of 16mm film, resulting in a hypnotizing kaleidoscope of colors. Set to a contemporary psych-rock track from Portland's Lunar Grave.

Apocryphal Tome

Window Circumstance creates a parallel between windows, vision and the cinema screen: a framed, chance-based light show.

Window Circumstance

An acronym for swimming at your own risk, SAYOR refers to a forum without a moderator. Three years in the lives of three AMAB (assigned male at birth) children with a parent/observer. What does it mean to be male in the 21st century?

SAYOR

This 4-part film conducts a survey of Material Cinema techniques, composed almost entirely from hand-manipulated 16mm and 8mm celluloid, including archival and newly shot footage, as well as direct animation. A quick, feverish examination of the psychological horror which accompanies the fathering of twins.

A Report of Ongoing Research into Cosmic Intrusions upon the Paradigm of Fatherhood

A collection of short films made out of collage with mixed media paper, puppets, and background.

A Series of Shorts by Inga

summertime blues is a reflection on unresolved and unreciprocated love through a series of visual poems.

Summertime Blues

A document of the ethereal features surrounding oceanic bodies, the recycling of life and death through the constant flux of coastline.

Harmonium

An experimental audio/visual diary consisting of a group of people discussing their thoughts regarding time, aging, and lessons learned.

Thoughts On Time X Lessons Learned

Intertwined in a web of memories, two strangers explore a newly developed love.

The Knots We Tie

Two friends find unique ways to send messages through time and space. A quasi-narrative music video.

N-tor.6

This film was created during an artist residency at the Mary Olson Farm. It's an animated documentary portraying the history of the farm and the Olson family through animated objects found on site.

Mary Olson Farm

Originally made just for family, the filmmaker uses the last voicemail left on her phone by her Grandmother in this experimental short that becomes a meditation on loss and haunted spaces. Footage was shot on Super 8mm film one summer upon returning home to Hawaii, a few years after her Grandmother's passing.

Call Me Back

Thaw is one of an ongoing series of audiovisual works that explore the digital mediation of natural phenomena. This immersive film is meant to simulate the experience of losing oneself in the contemplation of shifting bodies of water. Ideally, our film will generate the same feelings of calm and meditative introspection; and potentially help urban-dwelling humans feel less alienated from their natural origins.

Thaw

A girl is woken up in the middle of the night by strange noises to discover a clone of herself in her house. The confusion deepens upon interacting with her double.

We Are Not the Same

Solomon tries to appease his God, and is willing to go to whatever extent in order to do so. Shot as a modern black and white silent film.

Zealot

12 trips over Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct the day before it was torn down, shot on super 8 film, edited together and slowed down, with original synth and drums soundtrack.

Viaduct

The 2D abstract hand-drawn animation comes from Na Li's improvisational drawings inspired by a piece of music. She visualized the sound through automatic drawing, creating the film in a semi-conscious state. Na drew symbols to represent the sounds and instruments she heard, using abstract drawings to translate a poem.

The Moon Rises During the Day (Soundsculpture)

Two dancers entangled—conversation to conflict to dissolution. / A hand-drawn animated film for which all the frames were drawn simultaneously by 100 people over the course of a 30-minute performance.

Futile/Gestures

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