Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase

 

Sponsored by: Warren Wolfson, Cygnus Management Group and Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Films and Art Video produced by students in the Department of Transmedia, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

BEAUTY EVAPORATES by Q Park – 4 min – art video
The sympathy and respect for analogue medium and ritual of its farewell

CARNEY’S POINT by Alex Parkin and Marla Christiansen - 16min - fiction
Carneys Point is the story of a woman's life, fractured into three facets each representing an important crossroad of her life.

IN A BLINK by Jordan Rapoport – 7min - art video
A woman tries to create a man and animate him

SERVANT by Guan Tian – 26min – experimental/fiction
A dark comedy about a man sitting on his bed contemplating suicide. His imagination becomes his reality as his room and his body transform, planted in a flower pot.

HOW TO EXTRACT THAT COLOR OF THAT EVENING SKY FROM THE DAY YOU FIRST DISCOVERED DUSK by Misha Rabinovich – 4min – art video
Colors come and go as liquids are syphoned from one container to another.

BLUE APPLE by Xiaochuan Xu – 15 min – fiction
A young man comes to America with nothing but enthusiasm and makes his own way to the top. The economic crises makes him question his beliefs
 
ONE MAN'S PALACE by Daniel Aguilera, Michael Choi, Adam Heicklen – 9min, fiction
A movie theater owner can no longer afford to keep the doors open and informs her sole worker that tonight will be the last show. This sets him off in a passionate frenzy to save the future of the movie theater.

FRENTE AL MAR (OCEANFRONT) by Adriana Gonzalez-Vega – 30 min - fiction
Based on a true story, about a poor fishing family who lives on the coast of Puerto Rico in 1980. Living in isolation, this family struggles to defend their home against an eviction order pursued by powerful people.