The Department of Performing and Media Arts presents:

Student Film Screening

Spring 2026 

Day 1: Thursday, May 7, 6:30 p.m.

PMA 4585: Film and Video Production II

Day 2: Friday, May 8, 5:00 p.m.

PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I
PMA 3508: Material Filmmaking
PMA 1410: Media Production Laboratory

The Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
430 College Avenue

Content Warning: For mature audiences only. Films contain material that may be triggering to some audience members.

Directed by Christian Stefan Amadeo 

A young Hispanic woman is forced to decide if she can exist without her family and the environment that's defined her upbringing when a looming danger gives her one night to pack her life away or stay in the country forever.

Directed by Jessie Jia

A boy who sees a crying zebra and a girl who needs to be seen.

Directed by Emma Alexander

A young man accepts a job offer to serve as a night janitor for a mysterious ever-expanding office overflowing with items.

Directed by Sofia Kornelia Echaniz

A young artist living in fear of inheriting Alzheimers, obsessively tries and fails to preserve the experience of being alive before she loses her memories. With help from a friend, she soon discovers that perhaps the perfect painting already exists.

Directed by Kate Thorpe

A struggling artist with recurring dreams of the same place begins to create work mapped out for her by a mysterious figure who lives there, leading to mass critical acclaim. Convinced the place and the figure are real, the artist and her skeptical best friend track them down– only to discover what they were missing.

Directed by Mia Sofia Orengo

When a retired ballroom dancer’s pristine performance shoes confront a life of waiting, a final dance in the rain forces both woman and shoe to reckon with perfection, loss, and what it truly means to have lived.

Directed by Eric Han

A forager's protest for the right to roam in a desolate collegetown catches the attention of a dysfunctional punk band and two bumbling federal officers. 

Directed by Bixby Piccolo Hill

A young man's life is upended when he's given a sinister ultimatum: it's up to him to decide whether his best friend David Gilmore is ontologically good or evil. 

Directed by Emma May

A woman has an abortion right before her baby shower and tries to hide it from her husband. 

By Grace Beck, Gus Dupin, Sasha Gadalov, Amaranthe Lirenman, Sylvan Martin, Adam Schaban

Directed by Andy Lasson

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Andy Lasson

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Dahyun (Roo) Ryu

Living under her overprotective mother’s care, a young woman begins to transform into a houseplant until an unexpected flesh friend disrupts her slow green mossy decay.

Directed by Jonah Kim

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Jonah Kim

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Samantha Miculinich

In a distant future where creative expression is forbidden, the last artist makes a desperate escape through a forest overtaken by hysterical art and memory, which urges her to leave the world one final masterpiece before her death.

Directed by Laurel Thun

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Laurel Thun

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Annie Yeonwon Park

After moving to Earth, an alien named “Man-Moth” deals with judgement and comparison due to their unique appearance and behavior. After a horrible first day, he decides to escape our world through the moon. 

By Julia Cho, Katelynn Han, Andy Kim, Ethan Kwok, Adam Lease, Renee Lee

Directed by Hamza Ayad

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Hamza Ayad

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Nika Lalic

After a single phone call disrupts his ordinary routine, a devoted husband has to decide whether he can continue playing the role everyone expects from him.

Directed by Cesaire Jose Carroll-Dominguez

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Cesaire Jose Carroll-Dominguez

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Jess Yao

Told through a series of flashbacks and deconstructed timelines, three college students find commonality in their struggle for artistry.

Directed by Judah Garlic

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Judah Garlic

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Emily Lee

A young woman begins to feel out of place in her relationship as ordinary moments blur into distorted memories. The "we" they once were belong to the past, and she must let it go to return to herself. 

By Nathan Bo, Grace Downing, Arhant Gupta, Olivie Kim, Suri Li, Kian Pixton

Directed by Sanya Goenka

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Sanya Goenka

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Tanmaey Gupta

After a conflicted hitman decides to abandon his violent life and return to his family, he unexpectedly discovers the man responsible for his son’s death, forcing him into a final confrontation where he must choose between revenge and the life he is trying to reclaim.

Directed by Brian Michael

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Brian Michael

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Zikora Nwankwo

Littermates tells the story of a young ostracized girl reconnecting with her brother, who is a cannibal, over a nostalgic game night.

Directed by Ajay Josyula

A 16mm experimental film about a dream

Directed by Ajay Josyula

An animation about the first memory of a movie

Directed by Yin Dai

A graduate student helping build a fully automated AI farm stands on the eve of a great change. Quietly, repeatedly, she slips away: to the ocean, the forest, the last light of the day.