Beast of Man by NO WEATHER


Young men seek salvation while learning to ride bulls at an annual christian camp in western Oklahoma.

Directed by Christopher K. Walker and Michael Beach Nichols

A recipient of the Rooftop Filmmaker’s Grant, the film had its World Premiere at the Maryland Film Festival in 2017. A co-production of No Weather and The Cinemart.

What’s so bad about the Bird? by Nate Milton


A Bird study.

Animation Directed and Designed by Nate Milton
Produced by Nate Milton and Buck St. Thomas
Music by Bessie Jones, John Davis, Willis Proctor, Joe Armstrong, Henry Morrison, Peter Davis, Jerome Davis, Ben Ramsay. Courtesy of the Alan Lomax Reasearch Center.

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THE JOHN SHOW by Julie Sokolow


Synopsis: Graphic designer Brett Yasko wanted to save his friend John’s life, so he asked every artist in their town to make a portrait of John. The result is the 2016 art show “John Riegert” – a funhouse containing 250 portraits on the titular subject, with John himself acting as tour guide. This heartfelt story chronicles the making of a singular exhibit and the mental health struggles and personal triumphs of its subject.

Directed by: Julie Sokolow
Produced by: Olivia Vaughn, Ryan Loew

Magnitude Rituals 지진영제(地震禜祭) by DONGHYUN LEE


The earthquake of M5.8, the largest on the Korean Peninsula, occurred in Korea, which was called the „Earthquake Safety Zone,“ in 2016. Gyeongju City suffered a great deal of damage due to the ineffectiveness of the Korean government and the insecurity of safety. By the year 2017, there have been about 500 aftershocks, and Koreans are living in fear of an earthquake that will happen anytime soon.

Magnitude Rituals is an image of praying that no earthquake will happen in Korea. The former Korean peninsula country, which was a farming country, had a ritual to pray for rain in the sky every drought season. In this regard, this work expresses a ritual to wish an earthquake not to happen. The image consists of two frames. The image on the left represents the progress of the ritual, and the image on the right represents the earthquake/progression of the earthquake where the value of the graph representing the earthquake converges to zero and the process of the earthquake is reversed.

What I wanted to pursue in my work was the communication of messages using the contrast of Korean traditional and shamanic images and sophisticated mathematical graphics. On the surface, it appears to be unrelated images, but as the ritual process progresses, it expresses that the figure indicating the earthquake in the graph subsides, and the audience will be able to gradually understand and appreciate the images.

‘지진안전지대’라고 불리던 한국에 2016년 경주에서 한반도 최대 규모 M5.8의 지진이 발생하였다. 한국 정부의 미숙한 대처와 안전불감증의 분위기 속에 경주시는 큰 피해를 보았다. 2017년 현재까지 500여 차례의 여진이 발생하면서, 한국 국민은 언제 일어날지 모르는 지진을 두려워하며 살고 있다.

지진영제(地震禜祭)는 대한민국에서 더는 지진이 일어나지 않길 기원하는 제사를 그린 영상이다. 농본 국가였던 대한민국 이전 한반도 국가는 가뭄 시기마다 하늘에 비를 기원하는 제사를 지냈다. 이에 착안하여 이 작업은 지진이 일어나지 않기를 기원하는 제사를 표현하였다. 영상은 두 개의 프레임으로 구성된다. 왼쪽 영상은 제사의 진행 과정을 표현하고, 오른쪽 영상은 지진을 나타내는 그래프의 값이 0으로 수렴하는 모습과 지진이 발생하는 과정이 거꾸로 진행되는 모습을 표현했다.

작업하면서 가장 추구하고 싶었던 것은 한국 전통과 무속 이미지와 정교한 수학적 그래픽 간의 대조 속에서의 메시지 전달이었다. 겉으로 보기에는 서로 간에 연관성이 없어 보이는 이미지이지만, 제사가 진행되면서 그래프 속의 지진을 나타내는 수치가 멎어 들고 있음을 표현하여 관객이 영상을 감상하면서 천천히 이해할 수 있기를 바랐다.

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Director | Dong Hyun Lee
Advisor | Daryn Wakasa · Carsten Becker · William Salas

BACKSTROKE by Robbie Barclay


Two runaway teens steal a car with dreams of heading down to Florida, but things take a dark turn after a dangerous game.

Written and Directed by Robbie Barclay
Starring Josefine Christofferson, Shemar Jonas and Tom Frank
Director of Photography – Daniel April
Camera Operator – John Kopec
AC – Quinton Brogan
Gaffer – Chris Husta
AD – Conrad Sokolowski
HMU – Elvira Gonzalez
Location Sound – Aaron Sandler
Boom Operators – Carmen Sanchez, Jack Bradley
Sound Designer – Billy Feldman
Voice Over – Lynn Sher
Editor – Robbie Barclay
Creative Consultant – Sean Gradwell
Original Score – Dylan Glatthorn
Music – Waylon Thorton and the Heavy Hands http://ift.tt/2pF1Vg3
Colorist – Kath Raisch
Title Design – Paul Tuorto
Producer – Ryan Biazon
Associate Producer – Luke Wright

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Illustration of an Earth-Sized ‚Tatooine‘ Planet

Illustration of an Earth-Sized ‚Tatooine‘ Planet This illustration shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in „Star Wars“ looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets. via NASA http://ift.tt/2p9yXmD