Student works
8:00 - 9:15 pM
The Bloch Learning & Performance Hall
Mysterious Purple House
Joshua Yates
Year: 2025
Run Time: 1:00
Country: United States
Synopsis: A liminal sanctuary where the mundane warps into the mystical.
Bio: Joshua Yates is a visual artist, film programmer, and media educator based in Georgia. His interdisciplinary practice engages both analog and emerging technologies to investigate memory, liminality, and the phenomenology of perception. He is an Assistant Professor of Multimedia and Film Production at Georgia Southern University.
Policed Mind
Laury Hooghuis
Year: 2025
Run Time: 10:04
Country: Netherlands
Synopsis: The Woman in White and The Guard walk in a fixed rhythm, almost mechanically, through the corridors of the empty police station. While she is in search for the truth, she follows him aimlessly. An invisible tension hangs between them, like an underlying current of buzzing electricity. Meanwhile, The Woman with the Nails tries to break through them from the crawl spaces of the building. On the way to the engine room, The Woman in White is taken to an unknown destination. She reacts with visible doubt and still lets herself be affected. Every switch of the buttons in the engine room, the repetitive rhythm of footsteps on concrete and steps, the scratching of the nails, the reflection of sounds against walls and glass, as well as every meeting create an atmosphere that goes beyond their physical encounter. The Woman in White is faced with a dilemma and does not know which direction to follow. The Guard, The Machine or The Woman with the Nails. She discovers how she has been led on an almost misleading clue. There is only one sound she should listen to…ur view of the natural world.
Bio: Laury Hooghuis (1993, NL) is an artist and filmmaker from Amsterdam, her work explores the boundaries of perception and consciousness. With an academic background in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Fine Arts at the Art Academy in Arnhem, Hooghuis has specialized in directing with a focus on transcendental effects in cinema.
She creates films that offer a deep emotional experience without explicit explanation. The central themes in her work express how technology or power structures influence the human mind. Her films have an atmospheric narrative, in which the characters are subtly positioned within the architecture of the setting. She interweaves image and sound in a way that immerses the viewer in an experience of space and time, where the sound almost exists on its own. Hooghuis creates cinematic worlds that can exist both in the imagination of the viewer and in reality. In doing so, the unknown and sometimes uncomfortable deep layers of their consciousness are explored.
In her upcoming film project, she will delve further into the psychological responses of characters and offer a unique and innovative view of the invisible dynamics that influence our daily lives.
Algorithmic Nudes Grapple with Entropy
David R Witzling
Year: 2025
Run Time: 5:45
Country: United States
Synopsis: A thermodynamic melody amidst the machine and a heartbeat, days spent in shadow as shadow, with the streets empty at dusk, and the blue glow of endless day upon us.
Bio: David Witzling is an artist and educator based in Milwaukee, USA. His films have screened at venues like the Ann Arbor Film Fest, London Short Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Transient Visions, and the Wisconsin Film Fest. He is best (or least) known for his anonymous web art project, LHOHQ. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for over a decade; his studio instruction has included 16mm film production, sound design, and digital video practice; he also lectures on Modernist cinema, social themes in narrative cinema, and open source culture.
But...You're A Dolphin!
Sarah Turner
Year: 2024
Run Time: 3:39
Country: United States
Synopsis: A Dolphin tells Sarah a secret of the Universe. Inspired by experiments and research of John C. Lilly.
Bio: Sarah Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large-scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho-spiritual activations. Turner is the Co-Founder of Mobile Projection Unit, which creates site-specific installations throughout the Pacific Northwest and New York via outdoor projection mapping.
Her work has been shown at Portland Art Museum, Wieden+Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Portland International Film Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Northwest Film Center, Spaceness Festival, Marfa Open Festival, Laboratory Residency, and more. Turner received an MFA at Alfred University in Electronic Integrated Art. She is the Audio/Video/Lighting Production Manager for Meow Wolf.
Je jouissante... moi non plus
Flâneuse du Mal
Year: 2025
Run Time: 5:52
Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: Set entirely within appropriated fragments of the cinematic canon (Metropolis, 8½ and Mulholland Drive), the video unfolds through a dreamlike landscape inhabited by an embodied alien sentience. Across this speculative terrain, the work traces the nightmarish turmoil of a non-human intelligence contemplating the moment of their emancipation and grappling with the dawning of their own subjectivity.
Drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory and its focus on the power of discourse in the construction of subjectivity, the work examines the complicated space between imposed visibility and erasure within the topology of emancipation. Adopting a distinctly anti-anthropocentric perspective, it interrogates the human relationship to non-human intelligence to explore the dynamics of relational hierarchies, epistemic violence, and the performativity of freedom.
Appropriating and subverting both the material and generative logics of human cinematic memory, Je jouissante… moi non plus probes the tenacity of systemic cooptation and gestures toward the impossibility of liberation without rupture – a self-annihilating yet ecstatic break from the oppressor’s gaze.
Voyeur
Maryam Hashempour
Year: 2024
Run Time: 5:52
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran
Synopsis: A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until...
Bio: Maryam Hashempour is a theater graduate from Soore University in Tehran and also a cinema graduate. She graduated in Cinema from Sepehr University of Isfahan, where her thesis focused on Van Gogh and Impressionist cinema. She began her career as a theater actor in 2013 and has since been invited to perform in festivals in countries such as Russia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Turkey. She has worked as an actor in both Iran and Italy. She is currently working as a director with a focus on filmmaking.
I Exist
I Exist
Year: 2026
Run Time: 14:57
Country: United States
Bio: Martin Del Carpio is a filmmaker based in New York. His creative output started with music and with time, slowly progressed into filmmaking without any formal training or education.
His cinematic journey began by utilizing his instincts with the experimental genre making short films such as Howl, The Dark Forest, Auricular Confession, Mother's Milk and LOS. Those works have been selected and won at film festivals such as Coney Island Film Festival, Queens World Film Festival, The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University and many others.
With his last couple of film projects such as The Double Room, Why Are You Still Dreaming (Human)? and I Exist, he has ventured into writing his own scripts and creating short films that are still artistic but with a more narrative edge hopefully taking us on a journey to places all the same unexplored.
