Beauty and Brains

Inspired by powerfully beautiful women, she can get any man wrapped around her delicate fingers.

Facing the Monster

A man on a downward spiral spends his morning drinking. The woman he has abused and wrong has come for a final confrontation. I will be using the concept of women's ability to gaze in horror movies and being punished by the monster, in this case her abuser. The woman in my still uses her gaze to punish her abuser, instead of asking to be punished.

Holiday Horror Show

My film is a comedy horror where Santa (Rayn Suttan) who has been dealing with life long manic depressive tendencies has finally lost his losing battle for sanity. Santa believes that the Easter Bunny (Kaila Arriaga) has stolen his medication, and is distributing it to the children of the world in her Easter eggs. However, the Easter Bunny isn't easily found forcing Santa to turn to the corrupting influence of chaos. Attaining the relic axe of Oriax Santa hunts down the Easter Bunny striving to kill her. He's making a list, checking it twice; gonna find out who's been naughty or nice.

Never Knowing What Could Have Been

"Never Knowing What Could Have Been" A girl finds an engagement ring from her boyfriend who was killed in a hit and run accident and it brings back so many memories that she had tried to bury to move past that time in her life. My still has to do with different aspects of Elsaesser's domestic melodrama including emotional identity and the structure of life based off of a personal experience. Model: Maddie Sutter

Dress Up

When she is home alone, she likes to play dress up and put on her husband's clothes. What she doesn't realize is that someone is always watching her. I focused on the close-up and visual pleasure/scopophilia.

Silent Moment

My film centers around the depiction of a professional ballerina who had an accidental pregnancy and chose to have an abortion in order to continue working within the physically demanding aesthetics of her career. This still is of the dancer, post operation, who has danced herself into exhaustion due to her extreme emotions and is clinging to a baby blanket. I focused on melodramatic characteristics as well as the feminist theory of Haskell's "superfemale/superwoman."  Model: Rebecca Simons  

Revelation

I decided to keep this still very simple. It features no editing and props I just found laying around my house. It is supposed to capture both reality and foregrounding as outlined by Wollen in his article on Counter Cinema. The main character has just found out his older brother has enlisted in the Army, and now he has to care for their ill mother on his own. In his frustration he threw on whatever he could find and drove off, coincidentally ending up in a park featuring a memorial for veterans of World War II.