Graduate Work

Bleach (15:02)
Winter 06

Director, Editor.

Photography: Elizabeth Leitzell

Featuring: Primela, Sergei and Alex Starosielski

Awards

First Place, 2006 Corwin Award for short film, UCSB
2006 Video Schmideo Award for Best Editing, UCSB

Screenings

DisOrient Film Festival, Portland, OR., 4/07. (Bleach on DisOrient site)

Experiments and Ethnographies: Videos on New Social Experiences, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 10/12/06

"Racing Across Borders: National and Transnational Narratives," UCSB Graduate Student Conference, 5/13/06

UCSB Film Studies Department Colloquium Screening, 5/12/06

Documentary Shorts Film Festival, UCSB, 4/28/06


TechConnect:Putting the Unity in Community (25:00)
Winter 06

Director, Editor, Co-Writer

A short mockumentary on the uses of technology to
enhance community.

Watch on Blip TV

 

Screenings

2006 Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions: Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities, UCSB, 4/10/06

Screened as part of a Guest Presentation for Ronald Rice's Internet and Society class, 2/14/07

Funded by the Center for Information, Technology and Society


Not Like That: Demystifying Feminist Studies (26:00)
Fall 06

Executive Producer/Teaching Assistant

This documentary was made through a UCSB course in Women's Studies taught by professor Mireille Miller-Young. A group of 11 graduate and undergraduate students with little to no production experience came together to create a colloborative visual history of the Women's Studies Department at UCSB.

Screenings

Multicultural Center, UCSB, 12/14/06

Participants

Genevieve Bruce, Scarlet Chan, Stacie Furia, Adam Holdren, N.L. Klein, Kori Krysh, Mallory Lass, Mireille Miller-Young, Jessie Nieblas, Nat Pyle, Joel Rodriguez-Flores, Nicole Starosielski, Channing Zayzay.

Funded by the UCSB Women's Studies Department


Undergraduate Work


The construction of identity through media

These films were produced as final projects for critical studies classes at USC and engage with theory covered in each course.

 

life/story

constructed

label this

CTPR 290

Four non-dialogue videos written, directed and edited for a USC production class, Fall 2003

Life (at a bus stop) Following Meg Dear Amy Lost Focus
A boy whose life revolves around a bus stop finds out that his friends aren't who he thought they were. When a girl visits her best friend at college; dramatic events ensue. A letter, a non-traditional goodbye. The beginning and ending of a relationship, under two minutes, one scene at one time.

Created using 3D Studio Max.

Abstract
Spring 05
When the lights go off in the museum, colors emerge from paintings and play with each other.

Shorts, all written, directed and edited.
Dissolving Boundaries
Spring 02
A Thematic Option
Spring 03

 

A documentation on sexuality within the college community. Investigation of the pros & cons of a college honors program.