2019 MFA THESIS FILMS
Mash Note
Director Justin Brown
A bisexual woman slips a love letter under her crush’s door but, realizing she’s not ready to express herself, schemes to retrieve it.
12:15 Min
We Be The Same
Director Imani Leigh
Two sisters, grieving after their mother’s death, continually fight, but a neighborhood girl in her own predicament forces them to care, together, for someone else.
11:46 Min
The Negative
Director Haoran Luo
12:01 Min
Cheshire Dreams
Director Makare Saunders
Trapped in a toxic relationship, Alexa turns to her meddling grandmother, who thrusts her into a vision quest to face her grim reality.
7:35 Min
After Sertar
Director Jade
No one can predict the region’s future when a national party takes a hard line to transform the country’s largest buddhist shrine.
22:00 Min
Evasion
Director Yunbing Li
Disoriented and with a gap in memory, a young woman awakes in a hospital confronted with flashes of seeing through the eyes of two others in the same situation.
11:33 Min
Golden Apple
Director Qianhui Zhang
Chased into an abandoned house, an elusive thief encounters a mad man trapped in a mirror world, with each tantalized by the promise of the other’s world.
26:30 Min
Keep Me At Bay
Director Jingyi Hu
Finding her father’s old coat in a storage box, Snow remembers the day her father came home from military service and the childhood trauma that led her to emotional distance from others.
17:10 Min
Paradise Program
Director Shanshan Zhang
Traveling between digital consciousness and reality to spend time with his fiancé, Cyan must face the choice of sacrificing one of these worlds.
10:05 Min
Director Samantha Mitchell
After throwing herself a twenty-sixth birthday party that no one attends, a filmmaker documents her search for connection as she gains insight from other eclectic party hosts.
14:00 Min
Blue Youth
Director JY Wang
This hybrid documentary follows a young gay man in Beijing as he escapes the pressures of his new job on a sojourn with his lover in Shenzhen.
17:00 Min
The Ache
Director Jordan Loux
Capitalizing on a game of one-upmanship, a woman hustles two men for drinks, not realizing they are serial killers competing to murder her.
14:49 Min
Vision
Director Li Zhang
In the throes of an argument, a daughter damages her father’s beloved camera. Years after his death, she develops the film and comes to understand his secret.
10:50 Min
Remedy
Director Xiaoyu Wang
Cursed in a time loop, an abused wife seeks out medicine to heal her dying alcoholic husband, but breaking out of her pattern requires a more drastic remedy.
11:00 Min