2022 Submissions

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Grace by C. Graham

Calum Graham's "Grace" sounds laidback and relaxing, yet it has a strong connection to the concept of time - the way it moves continuously, like a river bending to its surroundings but also sculpting its environment.

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This Charming Man by The Smiths

My cover of "This Charming Man" is a raw and honest cover, not devoid of mistakes or room for improvement. I wanted my cover to portray the challenge it takes to play this song, and the pure musical genius that is Johnny Marr, and I feel my cover encapsulates that energy perfectly.

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Distanced

This film is inspired by my real experience of quarantine and distance learning. As getting into my dream school with excitement, I was told that I could only study online. This frustrating fact made me sad and "distanced".

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Polar

This film is about politics on social media and how teens feel about it.

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I Love Loki

At the start of my filmmaking class in high school in late `August, had my peers and I create montage films. So I took the idea of having a montage and decided to a montage of my youngest cat Loki.

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TET

"TET" is a film that demonstrates an issue that happens frequently during the new year in Vietnam, where I was born. The story is about a gambling addict's daughter stealing money from her parents during the new year to gamble and learning her lesson after she met a homeless guy.

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Memories

This was an assignment for school, and the prompt was something invisible.

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Birth Of Me

My piece addresses the effect that the realization that human kind is past the point of help has on my generation and our want to bring about further generations.

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Mother Volga

A couple years ago I stumbled across a book by John Koenig called The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, filled with words created to describe previously unnamed feelings. “Agnothesia” and “austice" jumped out at me, but most of all, "sonder" caught my eye.

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Unknown path

The collection of pictures you see are all based around the theme of things Yulieth likes to do or feels. She uses the power of shadows to enhance a deep and dark atmosphere within her pictures while also exposing her pictures to the divinity of brightness and shining light into them to portray a positive and angelic feeling.

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