Search results for VideoArtsSFOM

NOW PLAYING: "Stevie’s Aliens" by Austin S. Harris (@austinsharris). A writer is forced to question his understanding of the world when he sees what he thinks is a #UFO and meets Stevie, a fellow high school student with a peculiar insight. https://t.co/h8CRjASmQJ #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/XPuFhDH2yK This tweet was posted on June 03, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "Sweetheart Dancers" by Ben-Alex Dupris. Sean and Adrian, a #Ute and #Navajo #twospirit couple challenge perceptions of identity through their participation in Sweetheart Dance competitions at #powwows across the United States. https://t.co/mxbnUykr0O #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/1LW43r9IR9 This tweet was posted on November 26, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "Swindon: A Portrait of Youth" by Robin Mason. Mason’s snapshot of multiple perspectives on growing up in the #UK was created from telephone interviews conducted in 2017 with #teenagers in #Swindon, a town in Southwest #England. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/FUzUjl8PRr This tweet was posted on July 23, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "TURF Fever" by Kevin Gordon. Michael Chicago, the son of a #Filipino immigrant mother and an alcoholic father, finds an escape from a difficult home life through #Turfing, a form of street dancing with roots in #Oakland. https://t.co/x8A4XtXbB2 #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/Wn1hS2tdYY This tweet was posted on December 09, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "Tau Seru" by Rodd Rathjen. The only distractions for a young shepherd working in the vast and lonely landscape of the Indian Himalayas are the vehicles that cut through the desert on their way to somewhere else. https://t.co/V0qH9OiqiH #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/fmznhz9y3W This tweet was posted on October 22, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "Tend" by Tom Judd and Ed Barrett. The increasing demands of a father’s daily routine demonstrate how easy it is to lose sight of what, and who, our original tasks and responsibilities were intended to serve. https://t.co/K8V1AyrkWN #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/UUdxfaykT4 This tweet was posted on August 27, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "The Afghan Bruce Lee" by Jayga Rayn. Kabul native Abbas Alizada hopes to inspire his fellow Afghans to realize their dreams and help transform the prevailing image of Afghanistan. https://t.co/lPfMAEW7wo #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/hGnbCKOGI7 This tweet was posted on September 05, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "The Art of Flying" by Jan van IJken. van IJken filmed one of the most spectacular natural phenomena on earth, when, during a particularly warm summer, thousands of #starlings stayed in the #Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/61J7RQiyQf This tweet was posted on July 30, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "The Backseat" by Joe Stankus and Ashley Connor. Have you asked your folks for a ride somewhere? "The Backseat" reveals recognizable family dynamics and draws viewers into a world that feels honest, personal, and familiar. https://t.co/Um5Wd00iUK #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/0YKOhRwfcD This tweet was posted on April 19, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "The Christmas Light Killer". With deadpan humor, filmmaker James P. Gannon profiles his friend, a decidedly grinchy Jimmy Cochran, whose seasonal job is to turn out lights along a two-mile stretch of “winter wonderland” in a suburb of Philadelphia. #VideoArtsSFOM This tweet was posted on December 24, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "The Monolith" by Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr. As the perspective from the window of #GwynethLeech’s studio shifts with the construction of a high-rise hotel, so too do the artist’s point of view and her art. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/ny97qmMFXe This tweet was posted on July 02, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "The Moon’s Milk" by Ri Crawford. Captain Millipede and his crew embark on a final expedition to the Moon to harvest its milk in Oakland-based filmmaker Ri Crawford’s stop-motion animated short. https://t.co/5WXnwP4Nwx #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/YnC3cVFAnc This tweet was posted on December 23, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "The Queen of My Dreams" by #RyanLogan (@thatryanlogan) and #FawziaMirza (@thefawz) In this film made with Logan, Mirza reimagines the plot of the classic film Aradhana with a distinctively #queer take on the epic #romance. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/koah8hUByd https://t.co/8vWpf7AMgA This tweet was posted on June 25, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "Traveling Through Brush and Ink" by Annlin Chao. Chao’s stop-motion animated short features a shapeshifting character who journeys through the landscape of four Chinese paintings held in Taiwan’s National Palace Museum. https://t.co/NUYbVFARw2 #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/VocO6lfPIE This tweet was posted on May 20, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "Under the Viaduct" by Norm Li. Filmmaker Li takes viewers on a brief journey along the margins of modern society. While Li presents no human subjects, his film is clearly concerned with humanity and how we live together. https://t.co/0mcoPuNKCd #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/JCE759NqWN This tweet was posted on November 19, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "Welcome to my Life" by #ElizabethIto (@kikutowne). This animated short features a soft-spoken teenage monster named T-Kesh who is forced to navigate the drama of being different. #VideoArtsSFOM This tweet was posted on September 10, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: "Yosemite" by Michael Fletcher. With long holds, deliberate pacing, and stunning cinematography, "Yosemite" delivers an outsider’s perspective on Yosemite National Park that affords a deep connection to the grandeur of its landscape. #VideoArtsSFOM #EarthDay https://t.co/wPGxbwYjJo This tweet was posted on April 22, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: '"SOWLE" Tribute' BY AG Rojas and Corbett Jones. This documentary profiles a trio of sisters as they find their solace in the concrete bowls and half pipes of Houston's #skate parks. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/vrQYJH7S3B This tweet was posted on April 09, 2018.

NOW PLAYING: A streetlamp, traffic signal, and stoplight perform a choreography at a lonely intersection of rural byways in San Pasqual High School student Howard Kung’s award-winning film for Walt Disney Family Museum’s 2019 Teen Animation International Festival. This image was posted on July 05, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #illustration #thelonelystreetlight #streetlight #disney #howardkung #waltdisney #waltdisneyfamilymuseum

NOW PLAYING: A young woman and an Anishinaabe shapeshifter are guided by the spirits of displaced animals in this dreamlike stop-motion film by Michif artist Amanda Strong that raises the issues of land development and reclamation of indigenous practices. This video was posted on November 18, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #animation #stopmotion #thecontinuousthread #biidaaban #amandastrong #firstnations #michif #anishinaabe #nativefilm

NOW PLAYING: An introverted young man finds comfort, confidence, and freedom while dressing in women’s clothing until coming upon his father in a chance encounter on a busy street in this beautifully composed and restrained film by Yuchao Feng. This video was posted on June 10, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #documentary #yuchaofeng #pride #pridemonth #red

NOW PLAYING: Berkeley-based filmmaker Kevin Gordon profiles Stockton, California’s Michael Chicago, the son of a Filipino immigrant mother and an alcoholic father, who escaped a difficult home life through Turfing, a form of street dancing with roots in Oakland. This video was posted on December 09, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #sub64films #michaelchicago #turfdancing #stocktonproud #turfinc #stockton #california #dance #dancing

NOW PLAYING: Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Imad Khachan, an immigrant without a family, found a way to create his own while operating New York City’s last remaining chess shop as a welcoming place to sit, converse, and create community. This video was posted on August 01, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #newyorkcity #newyork #chess #community #kingofthenight #lonelyleap

NOW PLAYING: Colorful line drawings morph from one posture to another in this animated short, which was created by filmmaker Alex Moy as an exercise to find perspective and embrace change during a particularly anxious period after graduating from film school. This video was posted on May 13, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #animation #illustration

NOW PLAYING: Experimental animator Emily Scaife imagines the sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon them in Attraction, her graduate film for London’s Royal College of Art. This video was posted on July 19, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #illustration #animation #experimental #emilyscaife #london #royalcollegeofart

NOW PLAYING: Filmmaker Anthony Florez examines native identity through the eyes of self-professed cowgirl Kellie Harry, a fellow member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe who returned to Northern Nevada to raise her children in their traditional lifestyle. This video was posted on November 06, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #thecontinuousthread #anthonyflorez #pyramidlakepaiute #nativepride #indigenouspride #nativefilm

NOW PLAYING: Filmmaker Kristian Melom’s poetic approach matches the writing style of his subject, rising literary star Jason Reynolds, whose enthusiastic embrace of Young Adult Fiction and use of realism demonstrate the power and limitlessness of the genre. This video was posted on September 03, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #portrait #jasonreynolds #writer #yabooks #yafiction

NOW PLAYING: Filmmaker Paloma Martinez sensitively captures a bittersweet moment in the life of wide-eyed, eight-year-old Geovany Cesario, who documents his final day in the Crisanto Street neighborhood that is home to many who work in the shadows of Silicon Valley. This video was posted on May 28, 2019. #videoartssfom #film #video #documentary #palomamartinez #crisantostreet #siliconvalley #bayarea