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In review: The 2017 Notre Dame Pupil Film Festival
and Owen Lane | Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Lindsey Meyers
This by weekend, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center hosted the 28th annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival, showcasing the works of some of Notre Matriarch's most promising undergraduate pic makers. Scene writers Charlie Kenney and Owen Lane attended this year'southward festival and had a discussion almost the lineup.
Owen Lane: My favorite film was "Prayer Associate." I found every aspect of that pic to be extraordinarily polished. The film told the story of Woody, a bureaucrat from sky's department of Prayer Relations, who is charged with approving or denying prayers from Earth. Creators Ryan Taylor and Ben Vasquez both did an excellent job of depicting a concept of virtually artless innocence with emotional maturity and depth. I think the reason "Prayer Associate" appealed to me was my appreciation of detail. The film's score was a cute, simple motif that pervaded each scene, and it was a clever selection to use varying instrumentation. I particularly liked the elevator-music version that played as Woody rode an lift to Earth. Despite the film's lack of dialogue, the silent acting was superb. I also had great respect for the writer's conclusion to veer away from the predictable "happily ever afterwards" ending.
Charlie Kenney: "Null to be Done" was definitely one of my favorite films featured. I was really fatigued to information technology because of how real the film-makers — Colton Williamson, Moira Hamilton and Cody Mason — were able to make the film. It doesn't really take a singular or concrete plot, just instead it'southward an intersection of several plots. This makes perfect sense because the picture show is about a student at Notre Dame, and we all know our lives are not only one plot, but a myriad of things meeting and somehow not imploding. The principal graphic symbol deals with his parents' divorce, falling in love with his best friend, questioning his major and getting a casual hookup pregnant. All real bug, all bug that students deal with, simply all issues that aren't easy to talk virtually.
The dazzler in the film though, in my stance, was in their ability to capture the feeling of what college is truly like, an expanse where almost all other collegiate films fall flat. "Nothing to be Washed" shows what parties with a real, close group of friends expect like. Information technology shows how college romance is ofttimes more devastating than it is romantic and it shows how pay and passion are constantly butting heads when students are choosing what to study. The flick isn't an "Animal House" or an "American Pie" that depicts college every bit a perfect iv years of life during which real decisions aren't made. It shows what really goes on behind all the smoke and mirrors, which I plant impressive.
O.50.: I thought the documentaries were all very well-made and extremely informative. Every documentary told extremely intriguing stories and I was delighted by their diversity in scope. While "Filtrado" and "Peace At The Pipeline" offered glimpses into the pressing problems of clean water in Republic of guatemala and the Dakota Admission Pipeline, respectively, "Old Friends" and "Improv on the Rez" depicted far more personal, quirky stories. Visually stunning, sweeping shots of North Dakota and Guatemala were strengths in "Pipeline" and "Filtrado." But every bit a dog owner, I establish "Old Friends" particularly heartwarming. "Former Friends" was a poignant display of the efforts a few kind souls take to help some under-appreciated, vulnerable members of gild.
No documentary at the festival was able to advisedly rest true events and life's poetic beauty quite like "Debajo de los A rboles (Beneath the Trees)." It is non surprising to me that "Debajo" won the audience choice honor at the end of the festival. Crystal Avila'due south story about her grandpa had humor, historical intrigue and political relevance. Information technology was and then satisfying to watch a motion-picture show that was a very personal story about Avila's grandfather and his struggles with his retention, while too having such a large scale. The juxtaposition of Avila'southward journeying to the identify in Arizona where her Mexican immigrant grandfather kickoff arrived in America with her tender interviews of her hilarious grandparents made the film worthy of this weekend'due south award.
C.K.: I completely agree with you on the documentaries. "Peace at the Pipeline", "Filtrado" and the other documentaries were all about important problems that people definitely need to be informed about, only "Debajo" engaged the job of informing people in a completely different — and in my opinion more effective — way. "Debajo" not only informs on the e'er-pressing result of immigration and immigration reform, but information technology does and then in a personal way that pulls at the heartstrings of the audience. It takes abroad the numbers and facts that so oft dominate the conversation on immigration, and instead focuses on one real person and his real story. This method does more a panoramic shot of North Dakota or a ceramic pot how-to. The film makes its subject imminent rather than a distant affair that volition never affect anyone in the audience. The old man in the documentary is a real person, and many people can probably relate him to a goofy grandad back at home.
O.Fifty.: I must say that I constitute the array of brusk animations to be a very interesting addition to the festival. I especially enjoyed Anna Poltrack'south "Schattenvolk," which is German for "shadow people." The wry depiction of a teenage girl's reluctant all the same dedicated shadow was a clever meditation on emotion and inner fortitude. The cute drawing was accompanied perfectly past a sweet, unceasing ukulele score. "Horse Play" was a foreign, daring work. I requite great credit to Tanner Cipriano simply for making the cartoon. It was unsettling, yet also surprisingly funny, and the audience seemed to love information technology.
C.Thousand.: I completely agree with you regarding the animations. They added a dissimilar element and a different step to the festival with their average length of two minutes and their lack of dialogue. My personal favorite was the evocative "Equus caballus Play," which delivered rough sense of humor through the simple plot of a little boy trying to go onto a horse. "Schattenvolk" and "Who's Hoo" were as interesting, and both played with unusual concepts such every bit the function of personal shadows and the formation of relationships, which I idea was really benign to the array of films.
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