Mount Holyoke students showcase talent in Five College Film and Video Festival
By: Joanna Arcieri
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: Entertainment
This Friday, student filmmakers will compete in the Five College Film and Video Festival. Founded in 1994, the festival is an important venue for student filmmakers to share their work with their peers and are judged by students, not faculty.
Though sophomore Kayti Burt's film submission will be her fifth short film, it is her first time participating in the festival. Burt's film, entitled Tick Tock, was inspired by Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will. "It's a reading on time and the concept of time as a man-made construction," Burt explained. In the film's three short sequences, a girl completes mundane tasks, with a constant beating in the background that represents duration.
Also a first time participant, Marie Muir FP '07, will be both a juror and applicant. Muir's film Traversing Texture entailed outdoor shots that were "an exploration of all the different sort of textures."
"I've always been interested in film and have been more inclined toward avant-garde and experimental-things that are not plot driven and lack a definitive conclusion," said Muir.
Jurors will be comprised of two students and a professor as a representative from each college. Film categories include experimental, narrative, documentary, animation and dance on camera.
"I was really impressed by not only quality, but the imagination and talent that was exhibited as we were viewing the films. Of course, there's different levels of each [category] represented, but I think it was an overall good experience," said Muir.
Though sophomore Kayti Burt's film submission will be her fifth short film, it is her first time participating in the festival. Burt's film, entitled Tick Tock, was inspired by Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will. "It's a reading on time and the concept of time as a man-made construction," Burt explained. In the film's three short sequences, a girl completes mundane tasks, with a constant beating in the background that represents duration.
Also a first time participant, Marie Muir FP '07, will be both a juror and applicant. Muir's film Traversing Texture entailed outdoor shots that were "an exploration of all the different sort of textures."
"I've always been interested in film and have been more inclined toward avant-garde and experimental-things that are not plot driven and lack a definitive conclusion," said Muir.
Jurors will be comprised of two students and a professor as a representative from each college. Film categories include experimental, narrative, documentary, animation and dance on camera.
"I was really impressed by not only quality, but the imagination and talent that was exhibited as we were viewing the films. Of course, there's different levels of each [category] represented, but I think it was an overall good experience," said Muir.