A Son's Sacrifice is a documentary journey of Imran, a young American Muslim who struggles to take over his father's halal slaughterhouse in New York City.
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Director: Christian Nguyen
Whitehouse is an apocalyptic, yet playful interpretation of human struggle versus environmental disaster. It is a timeless video art piece set in an identifiable locale, but eschews our interpretation of this American Icon.
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It's an alternate take on nature vs. urbanity when a plastic lawn doe finds itself lost on the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY.
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Cooking for Richard examines the relationship between food and death. It starts as a fat man washes his post-supper dishes. The meal was his final.
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Director: Casimir Nozkowski
Bodega documents Hunt's Point South Bronx where impoverished communities rely on corner stores for nourishment rather than fresh produce at the local cost restrictive "green depot".
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Before reaching spiritual enlightenment, one sweater-vested young man must face a dancing Oldsmobile, endure a boozy encounter with God on a frozen tundra, and brush his teeth, comb his hair, floss, Q-Tip, lather and shave simultaneously.
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The characters of this film cope with their dismal situation with fantasy's of food. The savory nostalgia of meals they once had motivates the group to harvest the ultimate meal.
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Director: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt
The landscape of the Congo serves as a backdrop for this tale of an aspired inheritance of a generation to come, and the transportation of packaged crops.
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Director: Laleh Khorramian
Khorramian's video art explores painting and drawing in time. She uses discarded orange peel as a creative strategy, to consider the transience of life and its cycles of depletion and plenitude.
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Oyster addresses the question of "where does our food come from?" Does our food today really come from the place of it's alleged origin?
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Director: Chanya Hetayothin
Aqualibrae shows the cycle of life through the relationship between living things and waterscape.
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These videos and preparation drawings explore the intersection of folklore, food, and comedy.
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Director: Miguel Angel Rios
Crudo is an experimental video art piece that features a man in an elegant suit twirling meat "boleadoras" tempting ferocious hungry dogs.
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