Projects & Media

Www�ؿ�50�Ȼ� students create an impressive variety of media projects. You can check out a few of them here:

Fantastical Traumatic Feminism - a video essay by Emma Tiedemann

</p><p>Emma Tiedemann '25 produced this video essay as her Critical Media Senior Comprehensives project. This piece explores how <em>Russian Doll</em>, <em>Pan’s Labyrinth</em>, and <em>Everything Everywhere all at Once</em>, excavate buried realities and subvert gendered tropes by way of magical feminism.</p><p> </p><h2><em>FRUIT - </em>a short film by Ella Espiritu</h2><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="c47676da-7308-44be-a39b-ccf780034b91" data-view-mode="wysiwyg_500w"/><p> </p><p>Ella Espiritu '25 produced this short as his Media Production Senior Comprehensives project. It's an experiment in self-expression through fruit, told in seven bite-sized parts (plus a prologue). Ella is currently showing the film in festivals, so check back soon for screening updates and a future link to the project!</p><p> </p><h2><em>These Hands Lay Open</em> - a visual meditation by Tatiana Garnett</h2><p><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/834955130?h=50dfd14829" width="640"/></p><p>Tatiana Garnett '21 produced this piece as her Media Production Senior Comprehensives project. <em>These Hands Lay Open</em> is a visual meditation exploring the role of emotional vulnerability in Black selfhood and liberation. You can read more about the project and Tatiana's work here: </p><p> </p><h2><em>Unfreezing the Chola Image</em> - a video essay by Leslie Torres</h2><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/880390048?h=f1a2f7192b" title="vimeo-player" width="640"/></p><p>Leslie Torres '21 produced this video essay as her Critical Media Senior Comprehensives project. Using<i> </i>bell hooks' "Eating the Other," <i>Unfreezing the Chola Image</i> explores the concepts of cultural appropriation vs cultural appreciation within the world of Cholas, a counter-culture group of Latina gangsters. The project examines how niche counter-cultures such as Cholas are absorbed into the mainstream in ways that preserve the essence of the movement or corrupt pieces of the culture, ultimately disassociating it from their originators.</p><p> </p><h2><em>At Last Deserted</em> - a fictional short by Dana Dveris</h2><p><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/700617901?h=eba052c632" width="640"/></p><p>Dana Dveris '22 produced this short as her Media Production Senior Comprehensives project. Synopsis: Taylor confronts grief, regret, and the unrelenting march of time as she grapples with the death of her best friend Olivia by having a picnic in the desert in her memory.</p><p> </p><h2><em>Inside(s) Out: Being Trans, Be(com)ing Monstrous</em> - a video essay by Ada Rosen</h2><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/880390095?h=47c34e3aa7" title="vimeo-player" width="640"/></p><p>Ada Rosen '22 produced this video essay as her Critical Media Comprehensives project. <i>Inside(s) Out: Being Trans, Be(com)ing Monstrous</i> combines trans theory and body horror to explore the representational capacity of monstrosity as an alternative to mainstream trans narratives. No longer something to fear, the monster becomes a figure of aspiration for all who exist on the margins of intelligibility.</p>

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