Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival (FVNMAS)
May 9—11
164 N. STATE ST.
May 9—11
164 N. STATE ST.
Welcome to SAIC’s 2024 FVNMAS Festival
Let me welcome you to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival featuring works by our graduating BFA and MFA students. Held annually each spring at the Gene Siskel Film Center, this showcase provides us with the chance to encounter the work of more than forty young artists across a wide range of moving-image and sonic genres, forms, and practices. Like their peers exhibiting in the Undergraduate and Graduate gallery shows, these students are engaged in a rite of passage that marks their official entry into the arena of public presentation as well as the opportunity to share their visions with an audience of friends, family members, fellow students, faculty and staff, and the general public.
Programmed by Amy Beste, FVNMA’s Director of Public Programs and curator of the screening series Conversations at the Edge, the three-day festival brings to the big screen some fifty works that represent a wide range of genres and practices: experimental media, intimate essays, rebellious animated shorts, and ambitious narrative and documentary films. We are proud to celebrate these diverse voices at the heart of our community.
I am deeply grateful to Amy Beste; Emily Eddy, our festival producer; Trevor Martin and the Department of Exhibitions; Rebecca Fons, Emily Long, Michael Wawzenek, Dan Stolley, and the entire staff at the Gene Siskel Film Center; Dan Holmes, Cameron Worden, Debs Akinlade, and the FVNMA technical staff; Gordon Fung, Graduate Assistant; all the faculty members who have worked diligently with our students over the past years; and, above all, the participating artists for their hard work and inspiring vision.
Given the ubiquity of screens in contemporary culture, there will be a multitude of destinations for the works shown in these programs. Some of them have been or will soon be festival bound or will encounter audiences in galleries or online; others will form the basis for more ambitious projects; and all of them will serve to showcase the creativity, perseverance, and commitment of these young artists.
So please join us in congratulating this remarkable group of students as they celebrate the completion of SAIC’s demanding fine arts degree programs and begin the next chapters of their lives and careers.
Bruce Jenkins, Chair
Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
May 2024
Learn more about the graduate students participating in the festival.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS:
The FVNMAS Festival is free and open to the public. To order your ticket, please visit: https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/FVNMAS24. Any tickets that are not scanned at the entrance to the theater by the start of each program will automatically be released for other people to use.
Layabout blue, Riley Brown, 1:43
The Flow, Wenwen Zhu, 4:28
Across the Field Tanks Rumbled like a Thunder (work-in-progress), Alex Esin, 16:59
Everyone I Know Is Gone, Emily Mogilner, 9:38
Tramuntana (work-in-progress), Martí Madaula Esquirol, 17:58
Small Comforts, Ben Montague, 4:00
Noon Lover, Wanlin Xia, 14:57
Chasing, Linds, 4:53
Total Running Time: 76 min
WORTH IN PROGRESS, Aida Grace Larson, 10:24
My Soul is a Cage on the Outside of My Body, Clay Mills, 25:19
Fishy Fish Fish, Andrea Guillen, 8:15
A Roaming Wind, Xinyi Zhan, 29:59
A Catastrophe, Grace Kemp, 6:00
Total Running Time: 81 min
Come to Our Assistance, Matt Alicz, 9:26
How to Say Goodbye in Yugoslavian, Patrick Offenheiser, 24:40
Fixed Odds: 10 Minutes in D Dorian, Lee, 10:00
Drifting (work-in-progress), Qinxi Yu, 25:00
Infinite, Yuxuan Hu, 8:04
Dream, Zhichao Hu, 3:06
Total Running Time: 80 min
What’s older than the hills? Jane Dunn, 4:30
Trip to Nowhere, Shangyu, 11:30
Sitting in the Middle pt. 1 (work-in-progress), Emily Maloney, 2:34
Shepherd, Bocheng Zhang, 9:49
Ritual of Spring, Lisette Coles, 5:21
Well Earned Rest, Ike Peters, 8:59
Couch (work-in-progress), Ross Chavez and Ellie Jackson, 12:22
Stagmite, Sydney Violet Gray, 13:28
Incurable, twistw00d, 6:50
Elegies Garden, Lisette Coles, 2:20
Total Running Time: 78 min
His Garden, Yezhou Zheng, 12:32
Sugar In the Water (work-in-progress), Lin Chen, 60:30
Total Running Time: 73 min
The Concern of Cosmic Pressure, Becka Erin Seifert-O’Connor, 4:55
I Don’t Need a Metaphor to Tell Me About My Life, Raymond Chen, 10:43
So You’re Telling Me, A Shrimp Fried This Rice? Kenny Nguyen, 1:41
Talus, Jazmyn Joi, 14:02
Things Outside of Our Control (work-in-progress), Miles Eden, 15:09
1032, Spencer Farrell, 9:27
Untitled, Sharmarke Ahmed, 8:50
Total Running Time: 66 min
Spring Festival / 秋枫 (work-in-progress), Kris Liu, 54:27
Ace of Hearts, Jordan Alston, 2:42
A Guest from Elsewhere, Ethan Anderson, 8:40
Boto, Ignacio Arias, 5:00
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian (work-in-progress), Carmela Murphy and AJ Dubler, 8:13
im just not having a good time right now, mads thelin, 8:31
To Make our People Dance (work-in-progress), Bella Raquel Miller, 19:23
The Pleasure Principle, Elle White, 26:42
Thread of Conscience, Sobe, 3:02
Total Running Time: 83 min
Montage of Sloan, Sloan Klusendorf, 57:00