One more round of Fresh Perspective, a rainbow of student (from high school to graduate) works from around New England.

BY MAT YAPCHAIAN 3min, 16mm on video, 2002
Director: Mat Yapchaian (Rhode School of Design)

Two characters attempt to communicate without a common language. A dialog is discovered and they become overwhelmed within the dialog. Mat Yapchaian graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999 and is currently working on a cartoon pilot with Providence animator Chris Ricci.

How Far Will the Sweetbread Go? 10min, video, 2002
Director: Jared Medeiros (School of Museum of Fine Arts)

How Far Will the Sweetbread Go? documents the baking of a Portuguese Sweetbread. The predominately matriarchal tradition is passed down from my grandmother to my father, and from him to me. The video is an example of how things change through generations.

"I just graduated from Tufts/ Museum School with an MFA concentrating in film/video. My video HI AVO was an official selection of the 2000 Rhode Island International Film Festival. DOOMED was screened last year at the Balagan Experimental Film and Video Series." -Jared Medeiros

Black and White with Red All Over 3min, video, 2002
Director: Corey Corcoran, Alison MIller, John Gay (Swampscott High School)

Corey Corcoran, a junior at Swampscott High School, is an aspiring filmmaker and artist. This is his second year making films.

Alison Miller is a 16 year old sophmore in Lynn Ma, her other interests include writing and art. This is her first year making films.

John Gay is a student at Lynn Tech, in Lynn, MA. John is an avid skateboarder, but also loves making films and listening to music. Black and White with Red All Over is his first film as an actor.

 

A-DA-DA 20min, video, 2002
Director: Sung Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"In Korea, A-DA-DA is an onomatopoetic name given to a person who stutters. A-DA-DA is conceived as a stuttering film, not a film about stuttering. The film endeavors to tell of the relationship between a Korean-born foreigner in America and his father in Korea, separated both culturally and generationally by the communication gap between them. The film assumes multiplicity in its filmic style and concept, similar to the way in which a stutterer repeatedly stops the speech that he has started. The multiple aspects of the film put the audience through a series of different modes in terms of their engagement with the story, from total detachment to forced emotional involvement; it delays the viewer's definition of the film's identity. I cast two Asian American non-professional actors in their youth in order to portray difference within sameness. The film is often interrupted by a voice, or I, that speaks different languages in the film: English, Korean with English subtitles, and plain text in English. This third character, I, eventually assumes a role, or a persona that exists as yet another foreigner to the audience within the film culture." - Sung Kim

Sung Kim is born in Seoul, Korea. He works in performance, video, and film on alienation of youth and foreigners. His single channel video piece "J Story" was shown in Harvard Film Archive, MIT, and Stuttgart in Germany. His installation pieces were shown in Williams College Museum of Art and Boston Cyber Arts Festival. A-DA-DA has recently been shown at the "Utility Slug" show in Cambridge. His award includes Korea Foundation Scholarship and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. A-DA-DA is made possible by the MIT Council for the Arts Grant.

Alphabet 9min, s8on video, 2002
Director: Chelsea Spear (Suffolk University)

A neo-realistic, Truffaut-inspired response to the children's book "The Phantom Tollbooth", Alphabet looks at math and music as alternate languages and forms of communication from the perspective of Emily, a twelve-year-old math genius who plays the French horn.

CHELSEA SPEAR made her filmmaking bow to the world at the Terrastock psychedelic music festival, where she premiered her installation piece "Films About Water". Since then, she has made three short films -- "She's the Sculler", "The Valentine's Day Massacre", and "Alphabet" -- that have screened everywhere from the MIT Electronic Research Society in Boston to the side of a large building in Switzerland. Additionally, Spear has worked in postproduction on the acclaimed documentary "My Father The Genius" and on Alexandre Rockwell's DV feature "13 Moons". For her script for "Alphabet" Spear received the first Flicker NYC grant for small-gauge filmmakers.

Self-Portrait 6min, s8mm on video, 2002
Director: Asma Kazmi (Massachusetts College of Art)

In the contemporary western society Islam is associated with force and aggression. Muslim women are viewed as suppressed people with a subconscious desire to shed their veils. Yet in most Arab, Muslim countries the veil is a cultural norm, accepted and embraced. There is a feeling of attachment to the idea of concealment of the body. Muslim women believe that the veil gives them distinction and power in situations dominated by men. In this work I am trying to explore ways to humanize Muslim women by placing myself as an example of one.

I grew up in Pakistan and moved to the United States of America at the age of 19. In Pakistan I studied at the Indus Valley School of Art and
Architecture for a year. I am graduating from Mass College of Art. -Asma Kazmi

Axis of Evil 1.5min, video, 2002
Director: Mike Piso (Massachusetts College of Art)

Axis of Evil reads between the lines and decrypts the subtleties of the Presidents State of the Union Address. Mike Piso has been studying Film at Mass College of Art Since August 1997. He is still working to get his Bachelors Degree.

The London Virus 3.5min, video, 2002
Director: Shiller Diny (Massachusetts College of Art)

The London Virus is a response to the jargon, rather than the help, pharmaceutical companies offer patients too poor to afford medicine. Schiller Diny is currently graduating from the Mass College of Art with BFA in Film.

Potence 6.5min 16mm on video, 2001
Director: Lawrence Kline (Fitchburg State College)

"Pithus, the last barbarian, is haunted by Grenlac The Perverter, and by his own sexual confusions in this rage-filled tale." Lawrence Kelin's films have been shown in the Visions Festival (2001 & 2002, juror's choice in 2001); F4 Film Festival (Most Original film Award 2002); The Rhode Island Film Festival (2001); The Boston Undeerground film Festival (2002); the New Hampshire Film Expo. (2001).

Chester and Grumpus Eats a Moth 2.5 min, video, 2001.
Director: Alex Curtin, Nick Curtin, and Robert Liscombe (Fitchburg State College)

Chester Grumpus sits down to enjoy a delicious salad, but a pesky moth has other plans. Wacky Comedy ensues.