Raven Moffett

Marrow Mourning

Marrow Mourning is meant to disturb and inform its audience about the painful rending of bodily connections to land, community, ceremony, and each other that Indigenous womxn must constantly struggle against settler colonial oppression to maintain. Illustrated through interactions of a mother and daughter literally carving space for themselves within the land and found footage from the ongoing Wet’suwet’en land crisis, Marrow Mourning is a painful meditation on Indigneous resilience against continued occupation of Native land.

Tehan Ketema

Mimbirkakh

Mimbirkakh (to kneel with one’s hands in the air) is understood as an act of dedicated devotion. In an ode to the diaspora, I subvert a traditional act of discipline from my homeland into an enduring,committed, and laborious act of love. The physical body becomes a metaphor for the internalized experiences of yearning for fulfillment and belonging. Mimbirkakh explores the way that land and sky become sites of refuge, grounding and connecting the body in habitual moments of meditation.

Bella Maria Varela

Triathlon

Inspired by my family’s competitive sporting spirit, Triathlon tracks the rhythms and terrains of American immigration and confronts the absurd constructs of US patriotism and exceptionalism.

Anna Brody

this is the only thing we’ve got

These conjoined video pieces address love relationships and the internalized values that mediate them. They are intended to be viewed in the same moment or space, inviting consideration of how different types of relationships intersect within and reciprocally inform our individual experiences.The long-take format requires investment and faith on the part of the viewer that gestures towards the commitment and conviction required to build love. The performances engage repetition, in its capacity to build both consistency and redundancy – to communicate patterning whether healthy or destructive, and the balance between fulfillment and/or refusal of desires. They ask about stillness, waiting, breathing, and allowing. They tell about grasping, yearning, making, and learning. They explore what we learned love was as children, and what we can allow it to be now if we try very hard to grow.

Nick Smallwood

Quarantine

Quarantine is a personal piece that reflects the inner feelings of the artist during the novel COVID-19 shutdown. It is meant to evoke the feelings of anxiety, entrapment, and frustration, while showing how two generations deal with the same isolation. Playing on the concept of monotony and the contrast between useful and uselessness, the two subjects engage in one individual task throughout the entire film. Through the piece, the artist hopes to make the viewer contemplate their own experience and feelings during this period of time. 

Kenni Dankert

Baptism

“I got it from you and built a home with it”

Turning away from nostalgia and into the self is a healthy and necessary rite of passage to becoming.

Souvenirs of the family both define and limit our perceptions of being. This normalized marriage between distance and intimacy disorients our psychological landscapes, while the subconscious embraces the disoriented and gives us access to otherwise unknowable truths. When objects that serve as reminders transform into navigational tools, a new place where walls become linings is born.