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Sunday, May 12, 2024
2 PM (73 mins)
BAMPFA
Film & Video Makers at Cal: Works from the Eisner Competition 2024
Free Admission
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In Person
Join the filmmakers for a screening celebrating the outstanding student films that are this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition. The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. Presented at BAMPFA since 1991, this screening offers the local community, as well as family and friends, an opportunity to see a wide range of work made by UC Berkeley students—from narratives and documentaries to experimental and essay films—and to talk with the makers.
Prize Winners: All About My Father; FORETUNE TELLING 10$/1Q; (In)Between Spaces
Honorable Mentions: As Menstrual Blood Flows in Borderland; in a hurry; Parole; Somewhere Only We Know; yours, olive
The descriptions below are slightly edited versions of those supplied by the artists.
Special thanks to Nicolás Pereda, faculty coordinator of the film and video competition, and to Andrea Bonifacio, Assistant Director, Financial Aid and Scholarships Office, UC Berkeley.
Films in this Screening
in a hurry
Mei Zhang, Caleb Murray-Bozeman, United States, 2024
Based on a series of WeChat messages between the codirector Mei Zhang and her friend, in a hurry explores alienation and attachment on the American college campus.
FILM DETAILS
Language
- Mandarin
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 5 mins
source
- Mei Zhang
source
- Caleb Murray-Bozeman
Additional Info
- Honorable Mention
yours, olive
Jiaru Liang, United States, 2024
FEATURING
Madison Shochet
gui zhiyou
Ella Savelson
An individual goes on a heartfelt journey with their partner, only to realize it was all a vivid dream.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Jiaru Liang
Cinematographer
- Jiaru Liang
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 9 mins
source
- Jiaru Liang
Additional Info
- Honorable Mention
Parole
Lázaro González, United States, 2024
FEATURING
Lázaro González
Elena González
Amidst the bustling streets of San Francisco, WhatsApp audio messages become my sole connection to my mother after several years of exile. Now, her yearning for reunion hinges on the fragile hope of the Biden administration’s Humanitarian Parole for Cubans. Despite everybody around her leaving, she urges me to listen to what I left behind. As I wrestle with the dissonance of academic challenges and the relentless hum of rent worries, my response takes the form of a love letter that echoes my present.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Lázaro González
Cinematographer
- Lázaro González
Language
- Spanish
- English
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 23 mins
source
- Lázaro González
Additional Info
- Honorable Mention
Somewhere Only We Know
Min Thu Ta, United States, 2024
FEATURING
Min Thu Ta
Spencer Tsang
the Yang Family
What starts as a heist film turns into a surreal romantic comedy/drama as one of the robbers falls in love with the home they are robbing.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Min Thu Ta
Cinematographer
- Bridgette Yang
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 5 mins
source
- Min Thu Ta
Additional Info
- Honorable Mention
As Menstrual Blood Flows in Borderland
Qiyue Zhao, United States, 2023
A documentary about the menstrual body, the diasporic body, the marginalized body, and the body in action—my and many others’ bodies.
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Qiyue Zhao
Language
- Mandarin
- English
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 7 mins
source
- Qiyue Zhao
Additional Info
- Honorable Mention
All About My Father
Andrey Kapustin, Kirana Rafli, Yeonhee Choi, Madison Shochet, United States, 2024
FEATURING
Andrey Kapustin
Kirana Rafli
Valentina Kapustina
Anton Kapustin
A docufiction film that begins as an epistolary film with the filmmaker Andrey Kapustin’s sister as the subject becomes a portrait of his relationship with his father.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Andrey Kapustin
Cinematographer
- Kirana Rafli
Language
- Russian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 8 mins
source
- Andrey Kapustin
source
- Kirana Rafli
source
- Yeonhee Choi
source
- Madison Shochet
Additional Info
- Prize Winner
FORETUNE TELLING 10$/1Q
gui zhiyou, United States, 2023
FEATURING
gui zhiyou
Ella Savelson
An artist enters a fortune teller’s tent with an expectation to sort life out better but turns skeptical at the exchange.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- gui zhiyou
Cinematographer
- Jiaru Liang
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 8 mins
source
- gui zhiyou
Additional Info
- Prize Winner
(In)Between Spaces
Eli Perloff, United States, 2023
(In)Between Spaces is an observational portrait of a commuter parking lot in Oakland. Attuned to the shifts in light, shadow, and sound, the film highlights the interconnectedness between the built environment and those engaging with it.
FILM DETAILS
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 8 mins
source
- Eli Perloff
Additional Info
- Prize Winner
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