24 FRAMES PER DAY Director: Sonali Gulati - USA - 7 minutes Conceived by combining 24 photographs taken each day over a period of 9 months combined with a conversation with a taxicab driver while returning from the airport , the film raises important questions around immigration, cultural stereotypes, and the meaning of home from a transnational perspective. A CONVOLUTION OF IMAGINED HISTORIES Director: Micah Stansell - USA – 9 minutes This film is comprised of four chapters, telling four separate stories that make up a meta-narrative. The works are the result of imagining the visual track to the story of someone else's memories. They focus on the small, mundanemoments that surround the dramatic (or traumatic) moments. DEAR BILL GATES Director: Sarah J. Christman - USA - 17 minutes A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video, and images from the internet, the film draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft. DOXOLOGY Director: Michael Langan - USA – 7 minutes An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars, and God. drop Director: Bryan Leister - USA – 4 minutes The aesthetic journey of a drop of water - animation sound and image are combined to create a zen-like exploration of fluidity and nature. OFFICE MOBIUS Director: Seung Hyung Lee - USA - 6 minutes An abstract story demonstrating the relationships of people working in generic whose behavior is confined to an infinite reiteration in time in a circular and seamless mobius strip series of actions. passage Director: Peter Byrne - USA – 7 minutes A reflection on the peripheral - An inquiry into memory, landscape, and departure, this work visually catches sight of experience, as it moves past. In this work, the artists create a layered encounter with streams of imagery and sound. rewind Director: Atul Taishete - India – 9 minutes Three thieves have managed to crack a safe full of diamonds worth millions, but then greed takes over as they decide to play Russian roulette with the last one alive getting the diamonds. The film moves in reverse towards the beginning as the opening of the film evolves as the climax. SHAKE OFF Director: Hans Beenhakker - Netherlands – 10 minutes A perspiring boy dances magically across borders. True street scenes combined with animation and studio recordings flow smoothly into each other. His dance is a climax of fast and spectacular moves consisting of a mix of classical ballet technique with street dance. SUCH AS IT IS Director: Walter Ungerer - USA - 12 minutes The film is divided into four parts and four themes: the underground in the city; above ground in the city; a field in the country; and fog and the ocean. Each theme has its separate identity, yet they are not separate. Through manipulation and abstraction of imagery the four parts are joined, as the land, and the air, and the oceans are joined by the earth.