The Newborn Chainletter
The Waiting Room
Penny Lane
When I was a little/good girl I’d sit in the backyard which wasn’t much of a backyard because we’re poor & we live in the city and I’d pretend to be Snow White with a sweet singing voice and fair skin and my eyes blazing blue i’d sit in buddha-calm and wait for the squirrels and dusty pigeons and alley-cats and skinny wandering dogs to gather and eat saltines from my outstretched palm…
Sunday
Justine Haemmerli
I feel that the presentation of subjectivity as a piece of art can quite possibly lie at the bottom of what makes an artwork important and why we react to art so strongly, and this is my first attempt at illustrating this idea and discovering what about subjectivity in its presentation, feels narcissistic and what can have a more general universal implications.
My Basic Instinct
Sarah Skapin
This film examines the effects of Sharon Stone on a 12-year old girl who has dreams of becoming Miss Teen Ohio despite her high IQ.
Long After the Thrill: A Christmas Story
Erica Robo
Set in the bars, backseats and baby”s playpens of a brutal winter in the Midwest, this film chronicles a week’s worth of events over Christmas vacation in South Dakota including karaoke, suicide, and the terrible horrible truth about growing up.
Sarah Nye
Sarah Hanssen
This film is a meditation on the role of marriage and divorce within personal identity. Intimate images of familial love and domestic places describe a young couple. But these happy family moments and kissing couples are undermined by the text that describes each character through their divorces.
Certain Things
Anna Someren
Anxiety and disorientation increase as technology is used to fine-tune personality. The gulf widens between a mother and daughter struggling to understand female identity.
The Artist
Gerda Martinez and Julia Scheele
We are two students from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone, United Kingdom, though we’re both from Germany originally.
Gigi (from 9 to 5)
Joanne Nucho
A Situationist inspired musical, this film is a story about the perils of the endless cycle of work and consumption. Watch Gigi as she sings and dances her way through her day, trying to keep up with the show.