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Experimental Film Program One:
Eloquent Graffiti
Elena Losey
Age 18
Von Steuben High School
After strangers find a book and write in it, the book travels between various people ultimately becoming a community journal of sorts.
Discord Daydream
Eugenia Freshman
Age 17
Perpich Center For Arts Education
In this animation using a narrative structure, mundane chores cause a young girl's imagination to run wild, and she finds herself in a surreal wonderland inspired by Lewis Carroll.
Elements
Youth Sounds Production
Bay Area Video Coalition
Routine
Aidan McDonnell
Fast Forward Program
Institute of Contemporary Art
Age 17
The character is stuck in a routine that he cannot get out of. Audience members may relate to this story by seeing themselves in their own routine.
Clap
Andrew Bader
Archbishop Hoban High School
Age 18
A film experimenting with rhythm and sound.
1:58 am
Yoko Okumura
Age 18
Perpich Center For Arts Education
This experimental narrative attempts to capture the unique flow of thoughts that an accommodate sleepless nights.
A Witches' Sabbath
Adam Grannick
Age 17
A visual interpretation of Hector Beriloz's "Symphonie Fantastique - Dream of a Witches' Sabbath"
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Experimental Film Program Two:
Spot
Andrew Quitmeyer
Age 19
A vignette of a playful pup set to a staccato song created from recordings of his dog sounds.
Vinegar, Brail, and Shoulder Shrugs
Emma Burghardt
Age 17
Perpich Center For Arts Education
A short film based on a poem by the same name. Throughout the film, this poem is accompanied by symbolic images and music, which according to the poet is about "Hot bicycle boys."
Someone's Story
Tina Rodriguez
Age 18
In Progress
Someone's Story presents a series of vignettes that illustrate the struggles, sense of loss, and isolation felt by many young Latinos living in the area.
You Try Not To Touch The Ground
Pablo Monterrubio
Age 16
Chicago Academy For The Arts
A short film about self-sacrifice for the good of others.
Cause and Effect
Branden Harrington
Fast Forward Program
Institute of Contemporary Art
Age 15
Cause and Effect deals with the statement: where there is love, there is pain at any cost.
Old Friends
Lauren Grace Wood
Age 17
Perpich Center For Arts Education
Based on a poem about the longing for a resolution which is mirrored in the longing for one last word with a departed loved one.
For the Girls
Nick Edelberg
Age 17
Chicago Academy For The Arts
An experimental short incorporating elements of surrealism and stop-motion animation, using live actors. For the Girls follows an ideology, drawing in biblical and gender related themes.
Bum
Matt Coleman
Age 19
JunkistiPosition
Dale Frederick
Age 17
Willowbrook High School
JunkstiPosition is an animation of teenage junk and kid junk all put together.
A Boy Grows Inside A Bottle
Zachary Westberg
Age 17
Perpich Center For Arts Education
The music is a "medley" of different styles of music, which help to change the mood as the video and poem progresses from start to finish. The text creates an artistically strange mood with a polished and imaginative ambience.
Untitled
Nick Weimer
Age 16
New Trier High School
A short anti-war video, which utilizes layering of a repeated image with World War Two footage.
My House
Alison Russell
Age 17
Perpich Center For Arts Education
The collaboration maintains a kind of solemn atmosphere and mysteriousness originally produced in Nicole's poem: the first piece of the project. The music is a beautiful, sober addition that emphasizes the mood.
Informal Wallop
Nicolas Scher
Age 18
M Power
An informal filmmaking and presentation style that wallops your audio senses. Body, mouth and face work to make rhythm and entertainment.
Seed
William Murphey
Age 17
Perpich Center For Arts Education
A move based on a poem with a dark and demented feel. Images include teeth grinding, eyes erratically spinning and people writhing.
Delmar
Yoko Okumura
Age 18
Perpich Center For Arts Education
This film is an experimental representation of an erry nightmare, disconcertingly telling the melancholy tale of the encaged, forgotten Delmar imagining a world out side his own.
2000
Age 16
Lilli Canright
Two girls talk in a bathroom about absolutely nothing. Their dialogue sounds like English subtitles in a French film.
Many Paths
Lillian Erlinger
Age 17
An art film meant to address the issues of religious intolerance, human fallibility and the feat that creates faith.
Cultivate
Yoko Okumura
Age 18
Perpich Center For Arts Education
This film is an abstracted video poem created the interdisciplinary collaboration between the music, media and literary arts. The poem's thematic overtone is one of rebirth and the video incorporates its ideas through visual abstraction.
Simple Pleasures
Stephanie Morley, Leslie Benson, Kyle Pfab, Javier Morales, Keki Vannice, Lindsey McLaughin, Kari Hever
Ages 18-20
M Power
So what makes your day?
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