Schedule

friday, April 14

WVU media innovation Center
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

62 Morrill Way, Morgantown, WV 26506 (4th floor)

Filmmaker/Artist Meet and Greet

Informal Meet-and-Greet. All participating artists, filmmakers and students welcome!

Friday, April 14
WVU mountainlair Green

1550 University Ave, Morgantown, WV 26505

8:00 pm - 11:45 pm

Student Works!

Bring your friends, bring some snacks and BYOB (bring your own blanket) for a film festival under the stars and on the Mountainlair Green! Come see films from fellow WVU classmates and students from around the world projected on the Mountainlair Green Friday, April 14th, from 8-11:45 p.m.
(In the event of rain the student screening will be moved to the WVU media innovation Center, 4th Floor)

LOG: C.U  |  Caroline Lidwina
Chasing the Bag  |  Aaron Benjamin Garcia, Jackson Zirith
Face Off  |  Edward Morin & Students
Hitman Hotel  |  Seth Nardo
BREAKOUT  |  Caroline Murphy
MINE | Esabella Anna Karena Strickland
The Missing Piece  |  Luis Madrid
Groves  |  Helena Harman
The Stranger  |  Jonah Manibusan
The Letter T  |  Kersten Paulsen
A Day In the Life  |  Sophia Winters
FOMO  |  Trinity Rollins
Solitude and Spirits  |  Finn Bell
Aspect | Abdulaziz Alasfour

Intermission

Venom | Alexa Richardson
White Elephant  |  Nick Evan Johnson
Agnes' Dog |  Kennedy Kacik
Strange Taste  |  Bailey McCord
Through My Mother's Eyes | Natalie Drew Burns
No Homecoming  |   Spencer Lee Hawkins
Petunia  |  Ekaterina Ulyanova
Sometin Deadlock  |  Batuhan Tüzün
Graphic Designer's Guide to Failure |  Nathan Windom
School Drills |  Sophia Hudanich
Rachel in Vacationland |  James Freda
Dave Washersmith's The Knifeman |  Jake Tay
Grown |  Emily Kennel
BACHelor In Paradise |  Ethan Maxwell
The Everyday Deerman |  Madison Roy
LEGO Seinfeld - The Eviction |  James Sullenberger
Creative Block and Design |  Kenny Farmer
Uber? |  Thomas Abrusico
A Night at the Opera |  Lara Bonatesta
The Art of Ski |  Isaiah Forsyth
76 Days After the Fallout |  Egon Mamboleo
Feeling Hope |  Tess Barnhart
FINAL FINAL | Paul Lilyea

Saturday, April 15
WVU canady creative arts Center

1436 Evansdale Drive. Morgantown, WV 26506-6111

Bloch Hall Theater
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Connections and Separations: Personal,
Psychological, Environmental, and Otherwise

The Silent Garden | Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson
snails | Dorothea Braemer
Swalesong | Nick Jordan & Jacob Cartwright
Profound Connection | Emily Taehee Kim
Beneath | Beth Walker
Inventor Crazybrains & the Girl called Bird
 | Jefferson E. Crawford
Miles & Kilometres | Sonali Gulati
The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms | Eloise Sherrid, Lauryn Welch
Coalescence | João Pedro Oliveira
There, Where She is Not | Sarah Ballard
Circuit
| Mats Landström
Sun Coming and Casting a Shadow | Daniel Robin
Pottero | Lindsey Martin
electric moonlight & the language within the leaves | Takahiro Suzuki
Two Cancers
 | Josh Weissbach

Falbo Theater
10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Performance Videos

Boundaries and Thresholds | Cheryl Pagurek
The Heart Is An Organ That Pumps Blood
| Laura Paolini
The Rehearsal
| Kate Walker

the slab
10:00 am - 7:00 PM

Land Translations and Mindscapes - Micro, Macro & Mental

Make Sure the Sea Is Still There | Gloria Chung
Re:Peat Burn
 | Anne Yoncha
Kinhin | Lydia Moyer

Bloch Hall Theater
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Gender & Identity

comme tous les garçons | Morisha Moodley
Für Lilith / ლილიტს | Mariam Elene Gomelauri
second born son: a transsexual documentary | Merit Thursday
Shield Ambiance | Gia Abucejo
Have Her Cake and Eat It Too | Belle Irwin
Brides and Monsters | Neil Ira Needleman
Three Pride Flags | Tom Bessoir

Falbo Theater
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Virtual Performance

Clever at Seeing Without Being Seen | Lee Campbell

Falbo Theater
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Video Projections: AI & Art

Faces in the Wild | Magdalena Bermudez
A Random Walk Through the Latent Space | David Witzling

Bloch Hall Theater
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Experimental Works:
Indeterminate Self Theme

LOST | Masoud Moein
Skinned
| Mike Hoolboom
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 | Clare Chong, Sonia Kwek
Light Leak
| Nate Dorr
women
| Tracy Miller-Robbins
Know No Now
| Karl Erickson
The End of the World
| Ali Aschman
Time Crystals
| Abinadi Meza
OilMoonNight
| Anna Malina Zemlianski
Invisible
World | Kym McDaniel

Artist Q&A Session

Falbo Theater
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Performance

A Final Elegant Gesture | Thomas Pickarski

Bloch Hall Theater
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Short Narratives and Animated Stories

The Wallflower Pact | Rikki Stinnette
Charged | Richard Sperry, J.J. Handley
The long rain
| Cassandre Léonard
Back Again | Jeff Madzia
Distant Conscience | Sam Henselijn
Resurrection under the Ocean
| Serkan Aktaş
THE SPRAYER
  | Farnoosh Abedi
Landmark
| Hunter La Salle
Back in the Saddle
| Ronda Suder
KUUMBA UMBO
/ Birth of Form | Ekaterina Ogorodnikova
YABÁ
  | Rodrigo Sena
An Old Barn
| Caleb Aaron
She's Mine Now
| Dalton Okolo

Artist Q&A Session

Falbo Theater
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Experimental Projections

Silence Is Deathly Painful | F. C. Zuke
Condensated
| Jacob Courington

The Slab
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Video Installation

Slow Light Shadow Matter: Reality, Another Country
Dennis Summers

Bloch Hall Theater
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Awards Ceremony

Bloch Hall Theater
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Experimental Works

Natura Artis Magistra | Katherine Balsley
Commun | jonathan rochier
Bangkok Hangover | Rew
Epoch isn't big deal
| Ignacio Tamarit, Tomás Maglione
Hypnoxenu | Scott Turri
What is Design?
| Mark Franz
Nobody Wants to Fix Things Anymore
| Joseph Wilcox
Mushroom Water
  | Roger Horn
Poppies Will Put Them To Sleep
| Jeffrey Steven Moser
they rise, these sponge fortresses
| Guillaume Vallée
realigning the forward back
| Dee Hood
The Moon Rises During the Day
| Na Li
SKYSCRAPER FILM
| Federica Foglia
Swimmer
| Nik Liguori

Falbo Theater
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

WVU Graduate Art Student Projections

9-CARBOXYMETHOXYMETHYLGUANINE | Tim Butcher
The Wheel | Asha Cabaca

Bloch Hall Theater
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Surreal, Offbeat, Sci-fi and Horror

The Night Before New Year's | Garrett Johnson
The Voice in Isabel Fleiss's Office
| Jim Haverkamp
EYE SCREAM
| Philipp Ramspeck
CJ
| Alden Wallace
Blonde Game Show
| Anton Burek, Meghan Martin
balaena
| Alessia Cecchet
PORTENT OMISSION
| Taylor Nice
I Am Of You
| Holly Mollohan
Joan Jonas of Arc
| Anya Liftig
Welcome to the Enclave
| Sarah Lasley
The Way The Stars Started
| Jami Dent
SHOWTIME!
| Michael Fleming
The Mirror Neuron (poetry mix)
| Tommy Becker

Sunday, April 16
WVU mountainlair

1550 University Ave, Morgantown, WV 26505

Gluck Theater
12:00 pm  -  1:00 pm

Stories from Around the World

YABÁ  | Rodrigo Sena
Falta Manuel
| Ro Olivares
Gap/Seam
| Jun-Yuan Hong
Distant Conscience | Sam Henselijn
This Is Not a Film
| Mahdi Hassanieh
Statistic
| Millene Avelar, Ana Stella Cunha, Rodrigo Sena
Before the Dreams
| Şehmus Özek
Resurrection under the Ocean | Serkan Aktaş

1:30 pm  - 3:00 pm

Documentaries

La Marelle | Laura De Baudringhien
Fortune Cook Me
| Yang Ni
Hazelwood Alive
| Bálint Oltvai
Extended Presences
| Margaux Anne Ali Dauby
Nature Boy
| Darice Polo
NO ENTRY
| Philippe Vanasse-Paquet, Dimitri Lavallée
Through My Mother's Eyes
| Natalie Drew Burns

3:30 pm  - 5:00 pm

Landscapes and Cityscapes,
and the Evolving Worlds In-Between

Resonance | Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Merrill Shatzman & Jonathan Henderson
Roger's Eye | Daniele Grosso
Pushing Through | Geneviève Bélanger Genest
Reservoir (Seven Fragments)
| John Winn
The Lost Garden
| Jeremy Newman
Central Park/New York
|  Nick Twardus
Unnamed Road | Songkai Zhou
Milwaukee Night and Day
| Dick Blau
Moonlight, Milorganite, and You |  Natasha Woods
Swalesong | Nick Jordan & Jacob Cartwright
Pressure & Release
| Kent Tate

 

A WVU Electronic Media / School of Art and Design Event

Founded in 2010, the WVMSFF has been a hub for narrative and experimental filmmakers worldwide, bringing diverse cultural and artistic perspectives to West Virginia and the Appalachian region.