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sum of its parts (2023)

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sum of its parts (2023)

film assignment: internal landscapes
controversy: school administration did not like the "collecting thoughts from students" bitthis film was a 2024 youngarts winner!

created as a film assignment and inspired by the works of gillian wearing. gillian is a conceptual artist who's most well known series of works asks strangers to write down what they're currently thinking and hold it up for a photo. in a similar fashion, i asked strangers what they were currently thinking and asked them to write it down. the responses were then collected, scanned, and digitally collaged with my own assortment of images and videos. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

done as a film assignment after watching the tv show, pen15--primarily directed by sam zvibleman. the dreamlike feeling of the show, taking place in the early 2000s and based on the creators'--maya erskine and anna konkle--childhoods was of major inspiration when choosing my documentary topic and editing this intro. while the full documentary is currently scrapped, this short introduction sets up the topic at hand--my hometown and childhood. the photo collage element was brought back during sum of its parts.

21117 (2023)

film assignment: documentary
controversy: internal conflict, at best

wrong number (2023)

film assignment: scriptwriting + acting collab
controversy: none! (i hope)

group film assignment created with an assortment of other students in a collaboration between the scriptwriting, junior film, and senior acting classes. while our film class had the greatest creative control, it was a very large effort, as evidenced by the ending credits. i was camera operator, assistant editor, and our group passed around directing roles. it was a project with a lot of moving parts but it was incredibly rewarding to see the final result and learn what it's like to work on a large team.

one of my least favorite films and definitely the weakest, but I felt an obligation to include it purely because of how long i used it. while created in the beginning of 2022, i submitted this to places through the beginning of 2023. this film was created in my sophomore year, as one of the few projects i felt passionate enough about to finish. the prompt was to simply treat an environment as a character and provide an introduction for it. for the prompt, i think it works well, but standalone, it's underwhelming.

the green revolution (2022)

film assignment: environment as character
controversy: reused for way too longthis film received an honorable mention at the 2023 scholastics art & writing awards

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