A program of The Time of Your Life: Enhancing Student Engagement with the Arts, supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Artists in Person

The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. This year's winners in film and video are Desireé Arlette Holman and Gabriel Peters-Lazaro. Holman's The Manns in Gay Paris is a wonderfully inventive animation of a family of puppets cut from "wish books" or catalogs. Holman provides all the voices, and explores the psychosocial dynamics within families drawing on childlike play. The subtle and resonant A Franc Exchange by Peters-Lazaro is a moving portrait of an exchange student grappling with serious issues from her past. This year's judges, all members of the Film Studies faculty, were Mark Berger, Marilyn Fabe, Kathy Geritz, Mira Kopell, and Russell Merritt. They have selected a diverse sampling of animation, narrative, documentary, and experimental videos to be screened in addition to the prize-winning works. The screening will be complemented by a program containing written descriptions by the artists.

Return (Albert Park, 5 mins). Flashback (Liz Anne Harris, 5 mins). Circumstances of Life or One Thing Led to Another (Vince Navarro, 9 mins). Dear Me (Mark Nicola, 10 mins). Aperture (Corey Creasey, 17 mins). The War on Drugs: Truth or D.A.R.E.? (Eugene Choi, Yosef Girmay, Mike Hegazy, Jessica Martinez, 23 mins). Love Story 5 (Ron Eyal, Matt Gleeson, 1.5 mins). Teeth (Ian Kibbey, 3.5 mins). duAel (sArA veSSal, 5.5 mins). The Manns in Gay Paris (Desireé Arlette Holman, 7.5 mins). A Franc Exchange (Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, 10 mins).