! My name is Claire Donohue (she/her) and I'm a Northern California based filmmaker, visual artist, and student. With this short film piece, "Side Effects May Include," I wanted to highlight and intertwine a number of voices sharing intimate experiences with side effects of hormonal birth control. The six minute piece is shot on super 8 film and manually manipulated (with paint, etching, and bleach). It aims to spark a larger conversation about what I think is a generally overlooked part of our reproductive rights / general healthcare system. When I began talking about the project a few months ago I was overwhelmed with the number of immediate responses I got from my community - I hope to continue growing the library of voices and eventually expand the project into a larger archive or website.
Showing posts with label short films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short films. Show all posts
"Existential Dread (And Other Dreams)" by Justin Kaminuma
February 16, 2019 / art, short films
My name is Justin Kaminuma and I'm currently an 18 year old college student based in Atlanta. For the past 5 years, I've been uploading short films / music videos to my YouTube channel with the hope that I can share a little about who I am with random strangers on the Internet.
In my first semester of college this past fall, I found myself feeling lonelier than I expected. That feeling hit hardest towards the end when I got extremely sick and had to isolate myself from everyone around me. I remember laying in my bed and hearing the sounds of people talking, walking, and laughing outside the thin walls of my dorm room. And in those lonely moments, my mind would drift into a half-sleep where I'd see pictures and think thoughts and feel feelings. Eventually, they'd lead into these dark confusing moments of existential dread.
This short film titled Existential Dread (And Other Dreams) is an amalgamation of all of this, which I decided to start making after reading a YouTube comment on a video for Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th." It started as a series of random moments that I've filmed over the past year, but slowly found its way through editing as a visual representation of just how scary and messy yet poetic and beautiful those moments were for me. I combined a bunch of different forms of media including 35mm film stills, 4K footage from my GH4, and my mom's old Sony Camcorder from 2001. The gorgeous music is by Johnny Goth.
I hope you enjoy it!
In my first semester of college this past fall, I found myself feeling lonelier than I expected. That feeling hit hardest towards the end when I got extremely sick and had to isolate myself from everyone around me. I remember laying in my bed and hearing the sounds of people talking, walking, and laughing outside the thin walls of my dorm room. And in those lonely moments, my mind would drift into a half-sleep where I'd see pictures and think thoughts and feel feelings. Eventually, they'd lead into these dark confusing moments of existential dread.
This short film titled Existential Dread (And Other Dreams) is an amalgamation of all of this, which I decided to start making after reading a YouTube comment on a video for Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th." It started as a series of random moments that I've filmed over the past year, but slowly found its way through editing as a visual representation of just how scary and messy yet poetic and beautiful those moments were for me. I combined a bunch of different forms of media including 35mm film stills, 4K footage from my GH4, and my mom's old Sony Camcorder from 2001. The gorgeous music is by Johnny Goth.
I hope you enjoy it!
I THINK WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS : "Music & The Bond Between Friends *Q & A*"
September 19, 2018 / I THINK WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS, interviews, music, short films
Welcome to our new column! It will be an ongoing one that we hope to post once a month.
I have been thinking a lot about how important music is to me and how cool and special it is to find someone who likes the same band(s)/musician(s) as me and how I often use music as a starting off point for getting to know someone or developing friendships. I believe that music creates lasting friendships and wanted to hear about other peoples' experiences with this idea! - Zoë Bridgwater (editor-in-chief)
With this interview, we would like you and your friend to get to the core of how your bond through music started. The interview format will be up to you (could be typed out, a video, handwritten, whatever you think up!) and we want YOU to create the questions that you would like to ask your friend. It would be amazing if your interview was a back and forth thing (more like a conversation) but if you just want to ask questions one way that's fine too. Below we have the very first installment:
The music universe really worked it’s magic to bring me, Alessandra, and Brenda together. I made a Twitter in February because I wanted to make a friend to go to a COIN show with. My first tweet was a picture of the show flyer and Brenda happened to see it. A few days before the show, Brenda messaged me because she saw my tweet. Ever since then we literally talk every single day and it’s pretty much all about music. We made this video because we each came up with three music related questions to ask each other. We hope you have fun asking your friends these questions or answering these yourself!
I have been thinking a lot about how important music is to me and how cool and special it is to find someone who likes the same band(s)/musician(s) as me and how I often use music as a starting off point for getting to know someone or developing friendships. I believe that music creates lasting friendships and wanted to hear about other peoples' experiences with this idea! - Zoë Bridgwater (editor-in-chief)
With this interview, we would like you and your friend to get to the core of how your bond through music started. The interview format will be up to you (could be typed out, a video, handwritten, whatever you think up!) and we want YOU to create the questions that you would like to ask your friend. It would be amazing if your interview was a back and forth thing (more like a conversation) but if you just want to ask questions one way that's fine too. Below we have the very first installment:
The music universe really worked it’s magic to bring me, Alessandra, and Brenda together. I made a Twitter in February because I wanted to make a friend to go to a COIN show with. My first tweet was a picture of the show flyer and Brenda happened to see it. A few days before the show, Brenda messaged me because she saw my tweet. Ever since then we literally talk every single day and it’s pretty much all about music. We made this video because we each came up with three music related questions to ask each other. We hope you have fun asking your friends these questions or answering these yourself!
"Company" by Max Thillaye
March 10, 2018 / art, short films
Somewhere a room exists, where the essence of existence is maximization of production. Here, the individual consciousness has been erased and the ‘me’ holds no meaning; a post-burn out space, where questioning has no place and individual value is a foreign term. Erased of individuality and awareness, disturbance is minimal and everything passes smoothly through the inhabitants acceptance of the order. But crackling from the effect of the human factor, people fall victim to epiphanies, reaching a breaking point with the abrupt realization of their reality. The sudden awareness, leaves each with a loss of purpose and meaning, causing a breaking point. In a desperate, final move for change, each gives into a transformation. But the apparition and process of transformation is equal to all, making the mutation simply an extension of the machinery they attempted to escape.
Text : Johanne Björklund Larsen
Text : Johanne Björklund Larsen
“Grow Up” by Kylie Langley
January 6, 2018 / art, short films
Growing up is tough and confusing, especially when people are constantly telling you to grow up. Don't grow up yet, you have time.
follow Kylie on instagram @kylie.brooke & check out her YouTube channel Kylie Brooke to see more of her work
"Short-term" by Max Thillaye
October 21, 2017 / art, short films
About someone who wakes up one morning lost in an unknown environment, desperate to find his own identity, but trapped in a series of alternative realities.
“A LoveLetter to the EU” by Gina Fischer
September 16, 2017 / art, short films
I am Gina, 21 years old and from Berlin. At the beginning of this summer, 12 of my friends and I created a little video with the intention to arouse interest and political engagement in European elections among young people. The upcoming German federal elections makes me and my friends anxious, especially because the Eurosceptic AfD-party bucks the trend with its calls for a ‘Dexit’ referendum: “Freedom and self-determination for Germany instead of EU.”
To 'fight' for the EU, I created a video titled “A LoveLetter to the EU.” This video features 12 people from across the world, gathered on a small island in the harbour of Copenhagen to express the freedom that the EU grants them on its soil through dance. Filmed on a sunny summer evening while dawn approached, the group was bathed in golden light, eliciting resemblance with the 12 stars of the EU. These days, the EU is a symbol of values which the young generation should hold on to.
“The European Union is a system that I was privileged to grow up in without even thinking about the benefits that this historic coming-together of countries brought to the people of Europe and the world. Endangered of falling apart it is now more important than ever to stand up for what one believes in and save the great achievements of humanity.” - Andreas Schreiner (who is one of the 12 EU-Stars in the Video)
To 'fight' for the EU, I created a video titled “A LoveLetter to the EU.” This video features 12 people from across the world, gathered on a small island in the harbour of Copenhagen to express the freedom that the EU grants them on its soil through dance. Filmed on a sunny summer evening while dawn approached, the group was bathed in golden light, eliciting resemblance with the 12 stars of the EU. These days, the EU is a symbol of values which the young generation should hold on to.
“The European Union is a system that I was privileged to grow up in without even thinking about the benefits that this historic coming-together of countries brought to the people of Europe and the world. Endangered of falling apart it is now more important than ever to stand up for what one believes in and save the great achievements of humanity.” - Andreas Schreiner (who is one of the 12 EU-Stars in the Video)
Starring:
Amie Cocoshka
Sebastian Matthew Lajciak
Andreas Schreiner
Søren Holm
Louie Zingenberg Frandsen
Maya Leroux
Karl Gustav Brøndum Østergaard
Fransiska Paula Bramsen
Maja Leth Bang
Louise Cehofski
Søren Arildsen
Viktor Agaton
Ananya Nisbet
Joe
Poem by:
Sydney Spaceship
Poem by:
Sydney Spaceship
Music by:
Christoffer Jørgensen
Hoodies by:
König Souvenir
Edited by:
Max Thillaye
Directed and Filmed by:
Gina-Josephine Fischer
"Homesick" by Emma Robinson
June 11, 2017 / art, short films
“Homesick” is an episodic series of short films and compilations as a mini visual diary- music I've been listening to, films I've been watching, where I've been traveling, what I've been seeing- and the person I’ve been. Upcoming episodes include Playground Love, All Night Diner, and Off Season. Each episode pays homage to transition, life at 19- each episode using themes of classic cinema, music, or art. Shown visually to bridge the gaps left in writing, filling the spaces left in representing a time and a place through amateur cinema.
Emma Robinson is an East Coast born Canadian film student, currently studying and living in Toronto, Ontario.
Where to find more work:
instagram/poetforhire
tumblr/poetforhire
"Age Of Innocence" by Zainab Floyd
November 20, 2016 / art, short films
My name is Zainab Floyd, and I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist. For the past 10 months or so I have been working on a mini documentary titled "Age Of Innocence" it is a mixed media project that includes selfies, and images of my teenage hood. I interviewed a select few of my friends and family from ages 23-14 about their relationships with love, friendships, and beauty. I added the synopsis below:
"Age Of Innocence is a coming of age mini documentary about our relationships with love, happiness, friendships, and beauty. I've asked a group of youths from ages 23-14 about their relationships with love, happiness, friendships, and beauty in our day in age."
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