Gems, An Outdoor Screening with the Film & Electronic Arts Department & School of Art Animation Program

Gems

Friday | October 18th | 7:00PM - 10:00PM

Hosted by CSULB Film & Electronic Arts Department and CSULB School of Art, Animation

Films in screening order

TRT 2 hour 29 min

Documentary / Narrative / Animation

 

Part 1 TRT 54 min. 

Inside the Screen | Taiki Satake | 2021 | 1 min.   

Discomfort Zone | Lulu Castaneda | 2020 | 3 min.   

My Grandma | Hyunsuh Paik | 2022 | 2 min.  

A loving conversation between a young man and his grandma, touching on the humor and pathos of fading memory 

Things I Would Never Tell My Mother | Paula Kiley | 2020 | 3.5 min.  

A Filipina-American daughter examines her relationship with her mother by exploring things left unsaid. 

Reflection | Chelsea Keene | 2019 | 3.5 min.  

Mythos of Stratus by Yi Jiang (2020) 4 min.  

Mood | Aspen Ramsdell  | 2019 | 10 min  

When a new device detects and posts genuine emotions on social media, a group of teenage friends is forced to face the truth.  

Target Panic | Madelene Braun | 2020 | 11 min.  

Former Olympic archer Madeleine Braun delves into the mysterious phenomenon of "target panic", how it wreaked havoc on her own career, and why it is rarely talked about. 

Detective O’Mega | John Motter | 2016 | 6 min  

The unorthodox methods of a hot-shot cowboy-cop on the edge land him in hot water with his no-nonsense, hot-headed Chief, who must try to reign him in while they combat the mob, save President’s Day, and teach a robot how to love.  

Intermission  

Part 2 TRT 45 min. 

Nose | Ida Moselei | 2022 | 1 min  

We Are Gods | Genesis Lugo | 2021 | 3.5 min 

The Founding Wolf | Christopher E. Leon | 2022 | 2.5 min  

Creating a local youth  football team isn’t as easy as it sounds. 

72 | Valor Aguilar| 2021 | 3 min.  

Tent City | Camille Romero | 2022 | 3 min.  

Lurker | Charles Watson | 2018 | 10.5 min   

Using the streets as his canvas, photographer Billy "Captain Soncho" Williams explores what it means to be an aspiring young artist in Southern California. 

Greyscale | Nicole Sim | 2018 | 11 min   

When naive, subservient Ava falls into a tub of colored paint in a dystopian future where color is outlawed, she must fight off officers and find her way to The Color Experts to remove the stains or face horrifying consequences.  

Feed My Piggy | Tabo Tang | 2020 |  3.5 min  

Pit of the Pitmaster | Blaine Turner | 2021 | 6 min   

Trailer for a faux ‘70s Italian horror movie: Four college-aged friends traveling through rural Arkansas stumble upon a barbeque restaurant and run into cannibalistic hillbillies, a cow demon, and a hard-boiled detective karate master. 

Dead Dog In the Summer | Chloe Pitko | 2022 | 3.5 min