Author: Fara

  • SFSU presents: “Strangers You Might Care About”

    Photo by Brandon BuensucesoExperimental Documentary Portraits from SFSU’s Experimental Documentary Workshop

    19 short films that share a wealth of experiences, including triumphing over health challenges, thriving with blindness, celebrating the bicycle, and searching for Bigfoot.

    Filmmakers: Craig Bogel, Brandon Buensuceso, Joseph Caputo, Daniel Chein, Andrew Chung, Jacob Hager, Laura Kenmotsu, Alex Kimble, Christopher Moscoso, Kayla Mulholland, Esteban Ojeda, Becca Proske, Atzin Sanchez, Reza Tabesh, Shane Thomas, Camilla Turnbull, Spencer Wasserman, Zachary Weathers, and Kristin Wingfield

  • Architecture Of Time

     Architecture Of TimeStudents from the Department of Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley showcase video architecture, while exploring various genres, compositional approaches, tactical media and abstraction, time lapse and animation. Each student shares introspective, experimental, and documentary video utilizing metaphor, symbolism and poetic gestures to construct narratives drawn from personal experiences which have shaped their worldview, personal philosophy, or to raise awareness about an issue. In this collection of works, the artists design an experiential journey for the viewers, while exploring what has influenced their own way of seeing and the lens through which they observe the world.

     
     
    Participating Artists:
    Tara Baghdassarian, Irene Chen, Bridget Cuevas, Ryan Davis, Grecia Dedios, Nikki Duong, Sara Emsaki, Ozzie Salvador Juarez, Hannah Kim, Dakota Rose, Yan Shi, Shirin Towfiq, André Villa, Haley Seppa, Jensen Young
    Instructor: Azin Seraj
  • Arresting Power

    ArrestingPower_2Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon
    by Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, Erin Yanke

    Arresting Power provides a timely look at one of the most pressing issues of our day: police brutality and its intersection with race and class. Through archival materials, interviews with dozens of historians, community leaders and citizens impacted by police violence in Portland, Oregon, the film explores a historical and political analysis of the role of the police in contemporary society. 2015, USA, 84 minutes.