FVNM First-Year Graduate Student Screening
December 17th, 2005

In December, ten first-year FVNM graduate students screened work from their inaugural semester at the School of the Art Institute. The work featured was indicative of the wide variety of work being produced in the department: direct animation on film, found footage manipulation, experimental narrative explorations, rhetorical survey films, documentary essays on social identity, and more. The event took place at Busker, a Chicago screening and exhibition space run by two SAIC students. Click here for profiles of the individual artists involved. Listed below is the evening's program of works.

Jodie Mack. FVNM Grad.
Jodie Mack cuts things out, sticks them to film, and puts them through the projector. 16mm, 2005.

Adebukola Bodunrin. FVNM Grad.
“Even though life is sad, People still have a good time.” 16mm, 2005.
Found Footage + the Color Yellow = a Good Time.

Kenny Reed. FVNM Grad.
“A Sad State of Affairs.” 16mm transferred to mini-DV, 2005.
An updated remake of that beloved treasure Charles in Charge. When little Adam starts smashing baby turtles with a hammer, how will Charles deal with the situation? Find out tonight.

Lori Felker. FVNM Grad.
“101.” Film and video on mini-DV, 2005.
“101” is a survey film designed to instigate audience response on a variety of levels. It's also a circus, a compendium, and slightly less wild than Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

Jared Larson. FVNM Undergrad.
“Untitled Animation.” Mini-DV, 2005.
“Fifty States.” Mini-DV, 2005.
This work is about my dad taking a 2-3 year road trip in the late 70's.

Kyung Woo Han. FVNM Grad.
“Red Cabinet.” Mini-DV, 2005.

Samuel Chow, FVNM Grad.
“Confessions.” Super-8 transferred to mini-DV, 2003.
A visual meditation on love, pain, fear, and forgiveness, this experimental video explores the authenticity and authorship of love and self-love, identity, culture, gender, media, divinity and spirituality as we struggle to find peace and serenity in our day-to-day existence.

Chelsea Knight. Photography Grad.
"Diptych.” Mini-DV, 2005.
My video work experiments with the boundaries of fiction and deals with fraternal culture and self-myth.

Ben Popp. FVNM Grad.
“Helmut.” 16mm transferred to mini-DV, 2005.
I like to work with the imagination and the ideas that come out of it. I like to try and place the real into these Ideas and create a flow. This flow should be pieces strung together to create an ordered whole made up of smaller ideas.

Chris Royalty. FVNM Grad.
“Interruption Series.” Mini-DV, 2005.
My work investigates the construction of mass-media forms through the disruption of narratives, dislocation of parts, and messy replacement of contextual elements, using television footage from thrift-store VHS tapes.

Ernest Ramon. FVNM Grad.
“Invisible Starecase.” Mini-DV, 2005.
Who will survive the invisible staircase?