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Along the Lines of Connectivity: Please Mind the Gap
Directed by Karen Forhan / Experimental
While creating lines of connection through communications technology, we can simultaneously create gaps leading to alienation.

An Encounter
Directed by Sean Braune / Drama
An adaptation of James Joyce's coming-of-age tale of two boys skipping school yearning adventure.

Blood Water
Directed by Caine Chow / Drama
A journalist discovers something dire and must try to make it out alive with the secrets he discovered.

Death of a Puppet
Directed by ​Lena Chun / Animation
Analyzing the human obsession for papparazzi and celebrity

Escape
Directed by Elaine Poon / Experimental
An exploration into the depths of humanity's most primal fears

Ext. 5683 (l-o-v-e)
Directed by Elaine Poon / Musical
Can two depressed office workers find love in the strangest places?

Fading into the Darkness
Directed by Caine Chow / Drama
Two people running in a world where humans are no longer the dominant race

Folding City
Directed by Lena Chun / Animation
Examining the intricacies and effects of of modern urban infrastructure on nature

Gamer: Origin of Guitarman
Directed by Alex Watts Barnett / Comedy
Witness the rise and crash of a video game addict

Look Closer
Directed by Joel George / Drama
Examining the hidden beauty that no one gives credit to

March of the Clocks
Directed by Agnes Jankiewicz / Experimental
A piece inspired by Ballet Mecanique (1924) using pocket watches

Ordinary Thoughts
Directed by Elaine Poon / Experimental
Going through the repetitious path of one without his muse

Silent
Directed by Agnes Jankiewicz / Comedy
What would happen if everyone stopped talking?

Stand
Directed by Ashley Bowes / Drama
A hotdog stand operator confronts a wrong-doer one night leading to disastrous results

The Highwayman
Directed by Jessica Adams / Drama
An adaptation of Alfred Noyes' poem of the highwayman who vows to return to his lover who is being held hostage by the royal guard

Till Death
Directed by Elaine Poon / Experimental
Taking the famous marriage vow a little too literally

To the Moon
Directed by Lena Chun / Animation
An "invisible" thread bounds a couple together despite breaking up
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