home remedies

Lost things in a dark river, a hand combing through it. A child on the search for order does it in secret to preserve its sacredness. Time precipitates. It gathers in low places. But the juvenile rituals remain. Praying morphs into home remedies made with glistening wax apples before finally taking form through the iris of the camera, where another system of faith is constructed.

NAPA

Three strangers meet in a park. Their conversation digresses, esses and flows. Are they evading an ending? Their imagination can only take them so far, but still, they take flight, hoping to suspend each other, or themselves, in story. A fisherman. A deer. A cabbage. Time multiplies and expands to hold their stories, but only for so long.

what’s the hurry

Two traveling strangers, Didi and Gogo, miss their train despite pressing matters waiting for them at the end of their journey. They find themselves in a waiting room, where a shared moment blossoms into an unexpected connection.

A Series of Experiments on Time and Place

An experimental series exploring memory, time, and distance, through conversation and performance. How do we in a digital age connect and reminisce? Plays with the use of greenscreen and mirrors.

Gui Zhou (Stories of the Return)

American film director Yu Ge travels to Taipei, Taiwan, to shoot a script that her mother was never able to complete before her passing, in hopes of gaining a better understanding of her mother’s homeland and heritage. Two stories of searching are told in parallel—the present-day story of a director and the film within her film, set during the 1980s Taiwan economic boom. As generational, cultural, and geographical gaps are tested, Yu Ge’s tenuous relationships with her actors and her late mother are pushed to the brink.

Written and shot in Taipei, Taiwan in the summer of 2024. GuiZhou is a project that has been greatly supported by the University of Virginia, having received three significant grants: the University Undergraduate Award for Arts Project, the Miller Arts Rising 4th Year Award, and the Echols Ingrassia Research Fund.

a rolling stone gathers no moss

a rolling stone gathers no moss addresses collective art-making through resonant conversations and lingering stretches of shared imagination. At the secluded Biological Research Station at Pembroke, Virginia, an analogous relationship between creative and scientific processes surfaced. It was one of trial and error, and at times, much frustration. When things come to a halt, one turns to community, conversing and exchanging ideas until it feels right to venture out again. And the effect is often a rippling one. The flow of inspiration from person to person, like the complex ecological networks that surround us, underscore the symbiotic relationship between the creator of the film and the many creators within the film. Between the artists, fantastical visions are transposed and realized, while ideas of transparency, authorial voice, and “candidness” are stretched, amplified, and questioned. This film was first screened at Mountain Lake at our student Artlab Showcase and was officially selected for the Down East Flick Fest in Greenville, North Carolina where it will be screened in late November.

Animus

Animus is inspired by Taiwanese superstition and Greek mythology. While painting in a field, Daphne, an uninspired artist, is surprised by a mysterious Red figure that has something to show her. Animus explores the ways in which we bar ourselves from reaching our true potential and the experience of embracing the process.

crow’s mouth

Famous film director Sage Liu is caught off guard at her interview regarding her newest project, a biopic of her mother, depicting their complicated relationship and her difficult upbringing. So what happens when her mom shows up at her studio unannounced?

home of rocks

Two friends, Frank and Noelle, investigate a cave surrounded by internet mystery. Once inside, the two find themselves reckoning with the horrors of their own imagination.

Fairytale

An intimate short film that explores Grace’s imaginary world as she goes on a quest to find an endangered bird, playing with ideas of friendship and realism through narration.

Me and My Babysitter

How do we learn to do bad things? And how does our knowledge of evil inform our adolescence? These questions are explored in this film through learned transgressions. In a way, by learning how to be cruel, a girl grows up.

Growing and leaving

Second analog film. A girl revisits childhood sites and sees a shadow of something she left behind. Plays with angles and disorientation.

Intro Film

Shorts shot on 16 mm film for Kevin Everson’s introduction to Film class where bolex cameras were used to explore experimental storytelling. Three vignettes: Brunch, A Kettle Boils While being Watched, and Haiku.

the womb is an altar of all the things i miss

duo film and multimedia installation gallery show with Autumn Samone

the hand is no one’s by JAR

Undergraduate thesis show with Autumn Samone and Rian Gonzalez