Documentaries
1:30-3:00 PM WVU Mountainlair Gluck Theater
La Marelle
Laura De Baudringhien
Year: 2022
Synopsis: What happens if you bring all your diverse neighbors together on a common ground? In all their differences the neighbors from Residence Clemenceau (Brussels) try to rethink their gardens in a black box studio. With the studio as an experimental and radically different context, they are encouraged to have a conversation through questions. What can this experiment teach us about the way we live together in big cities?
Bio: Laura De Baudringhien
studies documentary at RITCS School of Arts in Brussels and previously obtained a master’s degrees in social and cultural anthropology. This interesting combination of audiovisual arts and anthropology can be felt in her self-reflective approach and the way she engages with certain societal issues.
Through her work and by involving diverse voices, she often explores how time and transience can be captured through audiovisual tools.
Run Time: 13:05
Country: Belgium
Fortune Cook Me
Yang Ni
Year: 2022
Synopsis: There are no fortune cookies in Asia. “Fortune Cook Me" is a design report about fortune cookies and an intercultural cooking workshop. The fortune cookie, which has existed for over a century, is considered a symbol of Asia, but is completely unknown there. The fortune cookie is like a pair of binoculars through which people look to the East and narrow their perspective. With fortune cookies as props and humor as dressing, the three-course workshop will bring people from different cultures to understand each other and enrich the semantics of fortune cookies.
Bio: Yang Ni interrupted his painting studies and moved from China to Germany. He understands design as a language of human communication with which he can express himself from a different perspective than painting and at the same time achieve an impact on society. He tries to use the only ten grams of humor he has as an icebreaker for dialogue and dressing for his artistic practice.
Run Time: 7:02
Country: Germany
Hazelwood Alive
Synopsis: A young, Black, neighborhood historian reflects on his quest to preserve a Rust Belt own's rich history, and through his life's work, steers the community towards revitalization.
Bio: Bálint Oltvai is a Pittsburgh-based filmmaker and producer. Bálint has worked as a freelance director and cinematographer for over seven years. A graduate of Point Park’s cinema production program, his works include short films, documentaries, promotional videos, and commercials. Bálint is also a travel enthusiast, routinely visiting his extended family in Hungary, and is fluent in the Hungarian language.
Bálint Oltvai
Year: 2022
Run Time: 14:32
Country: USA
Extended presences
Synopsis: 'Extended presences' follows several women in their seasonal work as fire watchers in Portugal. The film comes close to their breathing, to the passing of time and to solitude, from within.
Margaux Anne Ali Dauby
Year: 2023
Run Time: 12:30
Country: Belgium
Nature boy
Synopsis: Nature Boy introduces Ruperto and Emilia Udenburgh, who emigrated to New York from Puerto Rico in 1927, and their six daughters who were raised on Prospect Avenue in the Bronx. It includes conversations with two of the daughters, now in their 70s and 80s, as they recount their childhood in the Bronx, and memories of their parents Ruperto and Emilia. Ruperto and Emilia are the filmmaker's grandparents.
Bio: Darice Polo is a multi-disciplinary artist. For the past two decades, she has exhibited drawings, paintings, prints and video that explore the intersection of personal and collective history. These multi-disciplinary works have been exhibited singularly, and in dialogue with one another in a range of national and international venues.
Darice Polo
Year: 2022
Run Time: 8:13
Country: USA
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Dimitri Lavallée &
Philippe Vanasse-Paquet
Year: 2022
Urbex abounds in Montreal. To taste it is to get addicted. And we took that risk.
Bio: DIMITRI LAVALLÉE: After a few years in a theater program, I haphazardly tasted cinema. I took a liking at the back of the camera and this passion permitted me to get a collegial diploma in cinema. I directed a few short films, and I would like to use this art to continue to express my intense feelings and bring it to life for my spectators.
PHILIPPE VANASSE-PAQUET: Intuitive, highly curious, creatively starved… That would describe at best the 19 years old young director, acting on film sets for 11 years now. After less than a decade of working in acting and dubbing (french voice of Spider, Avatar 2), the call of film directing happened four years ago when he directed his first short film, Captive (where he played the lead role). Since then, he accumulated two short films, a documentary, seven prizes, a dozen of nominations, and started his production company in 2022, “Non Applicable”.
Run Time: 14:02
Country: Canada
Through my mother’s eyes
Synopsis: "Through My Mother's Eyes" is a short story of unconditional love and reminiscence. Mother, wife and daughter Kristen Burns' gift for photographic scrapbooking was more than just that, it became her legacy for her remaining family. Follow Cally Hogsett, mother of Kristen Burns as she shares the story of Kristen's photography journey, and the impact of the familial moments that are embedded within the pages of her daughters life's work.
Bio: Drew Burns is a student filmmaker based in Huntington, West Virginia. She is a sophomore at Marshall University studying Video Production and is focused on documentary filmmaking. Drew's first short documentary, Through My Mother's Eyes (2022) was recently screened as an official selection at the Marshall University Student Film Festival. Burns aims to center her filmmaking career around telling the powerful, untold and often overlooked stories of local Huntingtonians, along with telling some of her own stories through this medium. She hopes to inspire other young women who aspire to pursue a career in the film industry and to further engage herself in Huntington’s film community.
Natalie Drew Burns
Year: 2023
Run Time: 3:07
Country: USA
