Winter 2018 Comps Projects
- Terry Taylor, short screenplay, “Shattered Memories”
- Michael Vue, biographical photo book, “Txiv Neeb”
- Eddy Zaragoza, teleplay, “Fragile”
- Claire Tan, short fiction psychological drama film, “The State of Captivity”
- Rachel Everett, non-fiction film story of Jeff Everett’s swim across the English Channel, “Stripped Down”
- Paul Kirk-Davidoff, paper examining the history of video rental stores, “The Video Store in Local Context, 1978-2014”
- Lucy Stevens, short film screenplay and storyboards, “In My Pocket”
- Carly Dunn, short non-fiction film, “Los Xolos”
- Kayla Rudess, documentary film about In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, “Bloom Where You’re Planted”
- Alyk Kenlan, Batman photo series, “I’m Still Laughing”
- Jonathan Chow, short non-fiction film, “Body of Work”
- Alex Walker, non-fiction film detailing family’s Christmas tradition, “On Christmas Morning I Woke Up to a Blizzard”
- Scott Bown, fiction film, “Scully & Sons”
- Alexa Feeney, video installation and sound sculpture, “In the Flesh”
- Theo Morris & Peycen Ouyang, documentary film, “Analog of the Between”
Fall 2017 Comps Projects
- Amirah Ellison, photo book, “Family History”
- Audrey Kan, short film that centers on uneven power dynamics, “An Interrogation”
- Griffin Bolte, fictional narrative screen play, “Must Cop”
- Brenden Friesen, fiction film about a girl arriving on her first day of college, “Affinity”
- Harrison Keithahn, photo book, “No-Face”
Winter 2017 Comps Projects
- Alex Berlin, essay film exploring expatriate identity in Eithiopia, “Among”
- William Thorpe, photography exhibition of Chicago, “Strangers in Urban Spaces: Urban Geometry”
- Ali Reilly, feature length genre screenplay, “The Devil’s West”
- Suhail Thandi, film analysis paper, “Bollywood’s New Representations: The Changing Role of Women in Hindi Cinema”
- Madi Emenheiser, videographic essay, “The Social Horror Cycle in American Cinema”
- Zizi Li, theory paper, “Theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, Aesthetics”
- Brian Gordon, experimental animation, “Perception and Feeling, Then Meaning”
- Zach Leonard, found footage documentary film, “Cut Rate Tapes”
- Camille Sanchez, documentary film about the erosion of shoreline on Cap Ferret, France, “After the Storms”
- Tumi Akin-Deko, buddy comedy film about student-professor relationships, “An Evening with Professor Abney”
- Ibad Jari, documentary film about a musician, “Suburban Savage: The Evolution of Chan Poling”
- Joshu Creel, television pilot script and show bible for a fantasy series, “The Enemy’s Enemy”
- Ian MacEneany, fiction film about a doppelganger, “Going, Gone”
Fall 2016 Comps Projects
- Bobby Volpendesta, documentary film about a DIY space for musicians, “Licorice Beach”
- Ed Hendrickson, research paper, “Turning a Colorblind Eye: The French New Wave’s Representation of Africa and the Post-Colonial Reply”
- Jillian Banner, documentary film about female bull riders, “Frontier”
- Chris Griffin, experimental fiction film exploring topic of religious belief, “Holy Water”
Winter 2016 Comps Projects
- Nora Gregor and Jackson Hudgins, documentary film, “The Church That Jesse Built”
- Lia Seraydarian, critical analysis paper, “Photographing Place in the Digital Era: Three Representations of Los Angeles”
- Vincent DeZutti and Aaron Sala, fiction film, “Cornered”
- Takeshi Hidaka, documentary film, “Dear Admiral”
- Shaylin Nguyen, documentary film, “Change of Course”
- Jake Yanoviak, interactive installation, “Attraction”
- Emma Hughes, critical analysis paper, “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western”
- Russell Hanson, documentary film, “No Boundaries”
- Angely Guevara, photo exhibition, “Self Made”
- Brian Kremers, critical analysis paper, “Hollywood’s Political Others”
- A. Noah Harrison, sound installation, “Alex, Judy & Me: A Love Song in 3 Acts”
- Sofia Chang, video installation, “Encyclopaedia Chrysantheme”
- Mollie Wetherall, podcast, “The Soldier”
- Henry Maler, critical analysis paper, “A Small Revolution: Reconstructing Identity in Post-Financial Crisis Greek Cinema”
- Sam Frederich, animated film, “Flotsam”
Fall 2015 Comps Projects
- AJ Van Zoren and Robert Chen, pilot episodes for a multi-camera web series, “Logged In”
- Charlie Kilman, critical analysis paper, “Reel Nature: Digital Landscapes in Contemporary Fantasy Film”
- Kayla Becich, research paper on film distribution practices, “Snowpiercer and Experiments in Disruption: A Case for Closing Theatrical Windows”
- Hannah Sanchez, photobook about student style and gender identity, “Unapologetically Me”
- Cathy Lee, short film inspired by K-POP media in Korea, “Kaila Sue: Lost Fantasy”
- Theresa Heitz, critical analysis paper, “‘We Call Each Other Sister’: Melodrama, Cultural Negotiation, and Women’s Bodies in Orphan Black”
- Jack Turzillo, short fiction film exploring gendered identity, “Hunk”
- Lily Eisenthal, critical analysis paper, “Excess and the Radical Feminine Aesthetic in Věra Chytilová’s Daisies and Fruits of Paradise”
- Grace Davis, critical analysis paper, “Rhoda the Beautiful: Negotiating Gender and Proper Femininity in TV Sitcoms Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda”
- Veronica Garcia, documentary film, “Casa, Home, Leaving”
- Sarah Abdel-Jelil, experimental film, “Kerkethen: A Dance Time-Lapse”
- Roberto Nieves, photobook about national and personal identity, “Puerto Rico Suyo”
- Jonah Barry, short film about consciousness and self-actualization, “John: A Day in the Life”
- Gisell Calderon, experimental film about the mobilized gaze, “O: A Railroad Journey”
Spring 2015 Comps Projects
- Brendan Richard, auteur study, “Lucrecia Martel: Accusatory Cinema”
- Connor Einarsen, fiction film on revealing life through storytelling, “Ariadne”
- Ashanti Soldier, documentary film on global hip-hop, “Voices”
- Francina Block, 2D stop-motion animation film, “Clearwater”
- Rebecca Stimson, critical analysis paper, “The Showrunner: Hannibal and the Question of Television Authorship”
- Jhernie Evangelista, experimental documentary film on hula dance, “Haku”
- Ken Wang, experimental romance film, “Diary, Fragments, Eulogy”
- Andrew Cely, research paper, “The Cinematic Crusade: How the Catholic Church Dominated the American Cinema Industry”
Fall 2014 Comps Projects
- Vivian McNaughton, parody film, “Trevor & Janeson: Cool Learnings For Youth”
- Chris Williams, character study film, “Kickin’ It With Big J”
- Jonathon Liou, video essay, “Reimagining the Disney Melodrama”
- Charlotte Harris, photo book, “Made From Paste: A Story of Curry in Southeast Asia”
- Jordan Palacios, multi-media installation, “un(masc)ing desire: navigating gendered performance in gay social media”
- Brit Fryer, experimental autobiographical film, “trans·ience”
- Haley Ryan, essay film, “blvt”
- Robert Yeagle, research paper and graphic posters, “España Reimagined: The Struggle for Spanish National Film”
- Luke Reppe, documentary film, “Stordahl Church”