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Intimate Realities: Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation
A series of films exploring identity from haptic, surreal, and digital vantage points. Honors Theses in Cinematic Arts Production are year-long projects that offer undergraduate students the opportunity to engage with their passions in filmmaking as a culmination of their time in the Cinematic Arts Department.
Virtual reality experience available in FilmScene's lobby from 1:00PM to 1:30PM and again following the film presentation and Q&A with filmmakers.
froot loops (pictured), dir. jess m. roy
froot loops is a haptic and subjective exploration of gender performance as a transmasc non-binary person goes through one day in their life.
jess m. roy (they/them) is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose work focuses on subjective reality and haptic cinema, often exploring intimate portrayals of human emotion. https://vimeo.com/jessmroy
PANOPSCURA, dir. Aaron Longoria
PANOPSCURA is a virtual reality experience that interrogates digital identity and mediated social persona through the construction of the INFERNET.
Aaron Longoria (he/him) is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores themes of identity, memory and the body in an ever-changing digital landscape. https://aaronlongoria.format.com/
I Left Something on the Stove, dir. Vilte Vaitkute
A surreal film about growth and stagnation, I Left Something on the Stove follows a young woman as she learns to love and let go.
Vilte Vaitkute (she/her) finds her voice through filmmaking and photography, often telling stories of women in complex contexts. https://vimeo.com/viletea / Instagram: @viletea