艺术+行动实验室 Summer 2023 - MSU 丹佛-太阳城娱乐

During the Summer 2023 艺术+行动实验室 internship, the teens were tasked with creating experimental films for their final project. Divided into five teams, each team compiled a 3-5 minute film using 动画, 发现画面, 真人, 粘土动画, open source images/videos, 木偶, 切纸, 绘制照片, or a combination of these techniques. Unique scores were then composed for each film by students from MSU 丹佛’s Department of Music. The final short-films were screened for the public at CVA and will have another screening with 丹佛 Digerati in September. All five films are available for you to view below.

艺术+行动实验室 Summer 2023 Video Projects

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作者:德鲁·海格

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空间流行

For our short film “空间流行” we wanted to write a story that included aliens, 一个市场, 闪光, 和苏打水. Combining these words with seemingly no connection, we came up with a starting point for our creation: a story about soda (pop) in space. The 动画 process itself was very spontaneous: we experimented with many styles including stop-motion, 二维动画, and image manipulation, anything we could get our hands on. After some mistakes and many setbacks, we finally ended up with a multimedia project unlike any other that we call 空间流行.

Filmmakers: Maggie, Dannis, Olivia

Musical Composer: Tyler Treadway

代理

The film “代理” was created by Mia, Ella, and Eli. The idea was to create a story about an alien invasion where human fears are collected by bugs through their nightmares. Each of us made nightmares with separate mediums and experimented to show how surreal dreams can be. Mia used 2D stop motion with a collage to represent a fear of being stalked. Ella used digital 动画 to represent a fear of clowns and teeth. The nightmares are meant to be unique, similar to how wide the range of real-life dreams can be.

Filmmakers: Mia, Ella, Eli

Musical Composer: Esai Falcon

进入光明

“进入光明” is a multimedia short film produced by Finn C.朱诺·R.露丝·D. With our main inspiration being “Across the Spider-Verse,” this film incorporates live-action video and still frames, 二维动画, 还有纸工艺. Our film follows the main character (portrayed by Ruth) on her viewing of an Art Gallery. After having a connection to a certain piece, a portal to another world opens. Chaos ensues as we see our main character, and new friends, band together to defeat a new foe. We invite you to sit back and enjoy our short, fun adventure.

Filmmakers: Finn, Juno, Ruth

Musical Composers: Esai Falcon and Tyler Treadway

日复一日

We all have been affected by mental health in one way or another, each year over 8 million people die due to mental disorders worldwide. 通过这部电影, we wanted to bring light to how impactful mental illness can be, as well as break the stigma surrounding mental illness. Because mental disorders affect people in so many different ways, finding a way to powerfully depict this was quite tedious, we wanted to illustrate mental illness in a macabre way while still having a “happy ending.” To accurately present mental illness as a physical being we used 二维动画 top of 真人 to represent the difference between the two worlds as well as embodying the “otherworldly” and “misplaced” feeling many people struggle with. Although our film contains a darker theme we really wanted to emphasize how small acts of kindness can make a huge difference in people’s lives. We want people walking out of here today striving to be the person that can give someone their happy ending.

Filmmakers: Izzie, Ev

Musical Composer: Tyler Treadway

不是在这里

For “不是在这里” we wanted an old-style live-action film. We understand some might not understand most of the jokes and acting in the movie, but it was made that way. The laughs and memories made during the creation of this movie are enough for us, and we hope that people can see those happy memories and enjoy them with us. To film the movie we used an iPhone 13 and a tripod. For props, we used paper, drawing, felt for blood and we also made the knife from felt. For the editing process, we chose to put it in black and white for a more classical feel We wanted to make the editing witty and stick to a theme.

Filmmakers: Akira, Anthony, Jazz

Musical Composers: Esai Falcon