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Monster
BY DEREK SISOUPHONE
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From fashion and dance, to music and acting, the Arts is an amazing and moving world. Yet, it is important to know how dangerous and scary it can be behind the curtains. The different forms of abuse, the silent voices, it is a perpetuating journey and battle in the industry. Through the mental abuse and psychological trauma Derek has suffered and overcome growing up, this is a metaphoric story of an abuse he's lived and battled.
RUN TIME: (03:00)
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Symbolic facial expressions
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Physical movements paralleling abuse
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Setting of abandoned locations - dirt, broken glass, graffiti, dirty, unsafe, rugged, trashy, broken and torn-down
En mi hogar
BY PIPER BOCKSTAHLER
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I want to tattoo you on my skin as a forever reminder of home, your passion, your importance, your love. I struggle to maintain the intensity of connection. Frustrated with life, with myself, as I see it slip through my fingers, fighting to find myself by unpacking the roots of my culture.
RUN TIME: (06:19)
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dream
BY SOPHIA METCALF
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Dream explores themes of gender expression and sexuality. As José Esteban Muñoz wrote, "We may never touch queerness, but we can feelit as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.” Dream pays homage to this, and imagines a world beyond the here and now.
RUN TIME: (01:53)
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ZU SEIN
BY JESÚS LÓPEZ VARGAS, PAN-PAN GOU & ERIKA CLARK
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I tell stories because it's the only thing I've ever known to do. Is it that which keeps me strong or that which keeps me tethered and unstable? Why is it that each time I tell a story, it takes a toll on me? A piece of me that gets torn away and played with. Made with. And how do I know which part comes next.... through this ritual of making, doing & sharing? All I know is that today, another piece of me has died.
RUN TIME: (05:11)
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The Giants You Came From
BY HEATHER LEE ECHEVERRIA
RUN TIME: (03:52)
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Almost American
BY STEPHANIE CARILLO
RUN TIME: (04:00)
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