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- Short2389: Coming Home is a sci-fi short film. Two humans, a scientist and a soldier from Martian colony, come to Earth destroyed by climate change and resource wars, to find out if it is livable once again; during the research they decide to alter their findings and prevent re-population.
- TV SeriesThe Resentful Angel is a dark comedy about a veteran Chicago actress bitter about not getting the roles she deserves, who finds herself enrolled in a mysterious acting class.
- A precocious teen explores her sexuality, she baits her love interests by giving out her algebra homework answers, the plan would have worked if not for her meddling older brother that barges in with an ulterior motive.
- An homage to 50's horror films about a woman who sees visions in her television and her therapist who happens to be a werewolf.
- TOWING is a film about a female veteran's struggle to make the adjustment to civilian life, one fateful night her experiences in the war come back to challenge her as she's yet again forced to face meaningless death. Towing explores themes of gender, race and class with a feminine perspective on the emotional effects of war.
- For over 80 years, Merle Hayden has crusaded to recruit members to the utopian movement Lawsonomy. Founded by aircraft pioneer Alfred Lawson, Lawsonomy advocates for economic reform and clean, communal living that transforms followers into a "New Species" that will benefit the human race either in this life or the next. Merle joined Lawson as a teenager and never looked back. His high school sweetheart Betty Kasch, however, is tired of Lawson coming between them. Reunited after over 60 years apart, non-believer Betty wants Merle to join her in Florida. Merle's commitment to preserving Lawson's legacy, artifacts currently rotting in a barn alongside a Wisconsin highway, has Betty worried Merle may leave her for Lawson once again.
- NOVA is a short film investigates the building of genetically modified and scientifically improve human and its ethical impact. Jin, an ailing old geneticist and biochemist, created the heroin of the story Nova to serve his personal need, a daughter to love him.
- Rheya wants to make sure that her mom, who is a Personal Chef, won't use her pet goat for a new recipe.
- A mother says goodbye to her adopted Asian daughter who is leaving on a journey to find her maternal mother. As the daughter leaving becomes a reality, the mother learns that the right thing to do is send her daughter on her way with total support instead of worrying whether she will ever see her child again. Dumplings is a hopeful tale that examines the parental separation between a mother and a daughter.
- When friendship becomes a burden.
- Wonton is a story about a young Chinese woman and her witty escape during an Immigration Customs Enforcement raid of the US restaurant where she is illegally employed. Not only does Grace get away, she helps Armando, an underage Salvadorian dishwasher, to avoid the fate of the other illegal workers, who are subjected to humiliating treatment, capture, and possible deportation. The film gives a glimpse into the microcosm of life in a restaurant, and through a simple story, magnifies the need for human beings to have the right to pursue a better life.
- During a day at the roller skating rink an awkward teen attempts to ask the beauty queen to a couples only skate. With the help of his best friend he learns to skate and discovers the truth about his dream girl.
- Against Filial Piety ponders one of the oldest Chinese beliefs; the gravest offense of filial piety is not to have offspring to carry on the family name and blood. The film also relates to feelings of failure in not being able to fulfill the filial responsibility. This five minute, single framed, 16mm experimental film includes the word "barren" from 34 different written languages, which were extracted from dictionaries. The individual word or symbol disintegrates as it being enlarged to resemble landscapes or graphic shapes. The colorful technical drawing s of human anatomy and the cycle of childbirth are combined and contrasted against the monotone enlargement of Xerox copies of the word "barren" which breaks up and converges through out the progression of film.
- Fung Tsao Theories is a funny and loving film about the filmmaker's Chinese mother's philosophy of life. In making this film, Wen Hwa attempted to preserve the memories of her family, who live over 10,000 miles away, on film. All footage was shot in Taiwan with super-8mm reversal film then transferred and edited on video.
- A timid young girl's horrific trip to the school bathroom results in an unexpected friendship.
- The story of an unconventional woman who defied gender roles and racial discrimination years before the rise of feminism and affirmative action in the United States.
- Exercise with Ching Yung is a personal, experimental documentary film that presents the filmmaker's retired father who likes to exhibit his own creation of Tai Chi in public and sings Karaoke with his friends. This film explores the internal struggle of being the daughter of an old-fashioned Chinese father, whose lifelong wish has been to have a son to carry on his family name. The film examines the father-daughter relationship and investigates the daughter's struggle with whether and how to fulfill her father's expectations.
- Several decades after leaving, May May returns to China and connects with four different women as she investigates how and why gender equality in their homeland is so hard-earned.
- Disunion with the Union of Suffering illustrates and applauds the complex design of the human form - from cells to flesh - and celebrates the amazing cognitive ability each human possesses to transfer perceptions. Using images of cells, anatomy, and butterfly metamorphosis, the film creates an atlas of the subconscious mind. The vivacious score and staccato rhythm of vibrant, single-frame images alerts us to the working of our own eyes and ears.
- Inspired by the Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo, filmmaker Paula Froehle interprets one of Varo's quintessential works, el relojero, or Revelation of the Clockmaker. Using VFX to bring the painting to live, a young clockmaker diligently focuses on her own concepts of time while clocks build up around her, revealing alternate versions of herself. The work culminated with the revelation - a spinning universe - appears int eh window. But when the clockmaker is distracted by noises in the room, the revelation disappears, and with it the world of time the clockmaker has built up around herself.