Programs and Screenings from SEFF Binghamton 2010

Programs and Screenings from SEFF Binghamton 2010

SEFF Binghamton 2010 consisted of four programs. Each of which was curated and presented by Binghamton University students.

Inside and Out -- Curated by Brad Baumes

Inside and Out is a program devoted to the idea of using cinema as a language to define ourselves, our surroundings, and our feelings. Issues such as identity, personal vs public space, and explorations of various forms of media are presented for your consideration.

• This Kind of Town by Marcy Saude, UC at Boulder
• Manifested Destiny by David Oonk, UC at Boulder
• Reflect by Tsen-Chu Hsu, SF Art Institute
• Nuke ‘Em, Duke by LJ Frezza, Emerson College
• Hangman’s Tree by Catie Eller, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
• Einsamkeit by Sang Bum Heo, SAIC
• Thembi’s Diary by Jisoo Kim, CalArts
• One Over Wanderlust by Brendon Kingsbury, UCF

New Weird America -- Curated by Mac Cosselman

New Weird America explores new currents in experimental documentary, specifically that nebulous crossing place at which documentary and fiction meet.

• The Donut Tree by Lorena De Miranda Marques, City College of New York
• The Vagrant of Ephemera by Charles Chadwick, San Francisco Art Institute
• Old Man, Can I Have Your Daughter by Melissa Rogers, Emerson College
• Rebeast by Sally Van Meter, UC at Boulder
• Phases of Sacrifice by Ivan Kotevski, City College of New York
• I want to forget everything bad that ever happened ever by Benji Sayed, Ithaca College
• The Barbie Box by Sally Van Meter, UC at Boulder
• Yes, No, Maybe, Go! by Joe Fuller, Kansas City Art Institute
• Wyoming by Jason Georgiades, University of Pittsburgh
• I am Mrs. Archie Brownlee by Lindsay Laven, San Francisco Art Institute
• The Hills Have Houses by Bayley Sweitzer, Bard College

ReRun -- Curated by Rory Hayes

ReRun is a program that aims to show how repetition can play a major role in cinema. Repetition helps to convey an idea to the viewer, as well as emphasize a point that the filmmaker is making. This program focuses on the repetitiveness of images, sounds, a combination of the two and how this effects the viewer.

• (Don’t) Blink by Alexander Cunningham, Ithaca College
• Autopista Del Sur by Ingrid Echeverry, UC at Boulder
• One Man’s Garbage...Another’s Treasure by Lorena De Miranda Marques, City College of New York
• Sample Fiend by Elliot Bamberger, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• Kiss Me, I Love You by Daniel Bida, SUNY Purchase
• Window by Isaac Brooks, Emerson College
• Tourist by Jon Dorn, Emerson College
• Sofra by Deniz Tortum, Bard College
• Abstract Symphony by Lorena De Miranda Marques, City College of New York
• Tetrameter by Katherine Giguere, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• Washes by Norbert Shieh, California Institute of the Arts

The Ghost Who Walks: Lying Between the Real and Imagined -- Curated by Shanshan Wang

By using fragmentations, unusual camera angles, innovative manipulations, and montage editing, the eleven artistic visions in The Ghost Who Walks blur the distinction between imagination and reality, reveling in paradox and contradiction. The essence of these films reveal the subjective sensibility of cinema as witness.

• Seance by Seth Fragomen, San Francisco Art Institute
• Infitar by Deniz Tortum, Bard College
• Transsubstantiation by Charles Chadwick, San Francisco Art Institute
• Ghost Bird by Sally Van Meter, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Spitting Feathers by Ian Mcdade, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• Debul Wubman by Lindsay Laven, San Francisco Art Institute
• Dünya/Earth by Deniz Tortum, Bard College
• Dance With Me by Catie Eller, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• The Eternal Recurrence by Charles Chadwick, San Francisco Art Institute
• Smear City by Greg Hanson, San Francisco Art Institute
• H1CAZ by Seth Fragomen, San Francisco Art Institute