Storyville: Experimental Short Films Include Leeway Grantee and Board Member
Marie Alarcón (WOO '18, ACG '18, '09) will be screening her film Witness as part of Storyville: Experimental Short Films on June 21 at Scibe Video Center (3908 Lancaster Avenue) starting at 7:00PM. Other shorts include Squirrel Hill Falls directed by Hilary Brashear and Recurrence Plot: Family Circle directed by Bryan Oliver Green adapted from a short story written by Leeway Board Member Rasheedah Phillips. Please note there is a $5.00 entrance fee.
About the films:
Squirrel Hill Falls (USA, 2019, 20 mins) directed by Hilary Brashear
Squirrel Hill Falls is a short docu-fiction film about an abandoned park with an identity crisis. Part history of this gated community space and part story of an enchanted park figuring out who they are, this film wrestles with the purpose of ownership and value of protecting natural spaces.
Witness (USA, 2017, 36 mins) directed by Marie Alarcon
An experimental documentary about Bartram Village and Gardens, this contemplative collage of audio interviews and slowmotion video explores relationships between place and self, and the multifaceted narratives of home, joy, and struggle.
Recurrence Plot: Family Circle (USA, 2018, 16 mins) directed by Bryan Oliver Green
Adapted from a short story written by Rasheedah Phillips, it is the story of a crystal, memory-storing bracelet that transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother’s death.
Scribe Video Center was founded in 1982 as a place where emerging and experienced media artists could gain access to the tools and knowledge of video making and work together in a supportive environment. Scribe provides training in all aspects of film, video and audio production. They also offer classes in computer-based interactive media to individuals and community organizations as well. They give emerging and mid-level video makers the skills and opportunity to use video and film as tools for self-expression and for representing and supporting their communities. In the three decades since its inception, Scribe has established eight ongoing programs designed to meet the needs of the general public and media artists.
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