Alternative Requirements: Experimental Works from Bay Area Schools

Alternative Requirements is curated by a collective of UC Berkeley students as part of an internship offered by the Film Studies Program and the Pacific Film Archive. This year's student curators-Heath Gibson, Gillian Munro, James Naish, Hung Nguyen, Will Phan, and Gabriel Rivera-have selected an impressive array of works by film students from California College of the Arts, City College of San Francisco, College of San Mateo, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. Films such as Stutter (Marijke Jorritsma, 3 mins), 4079 rue Rivard (Xavier Gómez, 8 mins), Ga-Ga Cha (Sally Rubin, 4 mins, B&W), Recall (Ake Waratap Pasayadaj, 4 mins, 16mm), and Super 8 Daydream (Dalan McNabola, 2 mins) create a range of rhythms through the rapport between image and sound. Free Spectra (Seokhan Ryu, 5 mins) and Mathporn (Kenny Easwaran, Lukas Biewald, 8 mins, DVD) make use of light, sound, and geometric shapes to compose visual symphonies of morphed beauty. After all that: This (Jennifer Jacobs, 3 mins, Silent, 16mm) combines art deco style, old baby pictures, and scratching directly on the celluloid. Two (Amanda Movlai, 3 mins) explores an organic love of nature and motion as the filmmaker dances with her Super 8 camera in the late afternoon sun. Both Accident (Lucas Morrison, 2 mins, Color/B&W) and Eric & Kelly (Jen Choe, 3 mins, B&W, Silent, 16mm) construct an existential space between a boy and girl, one through mise-en-scène, the other through use of a split frame. like falling (John Palmer, 12 mins, 16mm) explores the physical and metaphorical relationships of humans to gravity. The eerie and ethereal Flora's Film (Michael Wilson, 15 mins, B&W, 16mm) re-presents an unearthed history.

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