MFA-EDA Thesis Show Encore Screening

The 2022 Duke MFA|EDA thesis season comes to a close with this special encore presentation of transporting new films by Emily MacDiarmid and Taoyuan Jin.

sequence
(Taoyuan Jin 金 桃 源, 2022, 18:12 min, color, sound, digital video)

sequence is a short film about being in transit and moving through the illegible American landscapes. The film leaps through abstractions of travel time and space by exploring the perception of being in motion. Essentially a travel film, it is a filmic representation of the banality of contemporary travel – where an array of images arranged into a suitably attractive package. Integrating sources from the digital and natural worlds, the film is an account of fragmented memories, momentary spectacles, and the personal journeys of a directionless traveler and narrator.

For my parents who sponsored all my travels that have no returns. It will be a different tale if every journey has a return.
 

Approved for Release
(Emily MacDiarmid, 2022, 22:13 min, stereo, digital video)

Approved for Release is a short film visualizing psychological experimentation conducted by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency. The main participant attempted to explore a distant place without ever physically traveling there. Transporting his mind through time and space, he detailed a collapsing environment in geologic turmoil. Through the visual presentation of the now released government transcripts, a series of open-ended questions on existence and the consequences of human impact arise.
 

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