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From Paintbrush To Screen: Intermediality In Luchino Visconti And Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinematic Worlds, Zoey Pather

Senior Projects Spring 2024

An exploration of role of intermediality and pictorial citations within two prominent post-war Italian directors, Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" (1963) and "Senso" (1954), and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "La Ricotta" (1963) and "Teorema" (1968).

Andy & Edie, Warhol & Sedgwick, Sabine Paris

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Realm Of Remembrance, Brandon Vanbach

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

In September of 2021, I turned 21 years old. During that time I also discovered a 8mm video tape in my childhood home. Unbeknownst to me, this tape, which hadn’t seen the light of day since its conception, would end up consuming my life.

The tape was a home movie filmed by my mother and her partner at the time during an outing to Vietnam in 2005. The footage consisted mostly of landscapes and claustrophobic close-ups of distant relatives. Rarely would I enter the frame. But I wasn't interested …

Getting Under Your Skin Until You Jump Out Of It: The Psychological Effects Of Music On The Experience Of Film, Clare Ellen Herzog

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Music is like magic. It can sweep you off your feet and spirit you away to places you never thought possible: it can serve as a teleportation device, achieve time travel, and let us read minds. Some pieces of music exist for their own sake, like Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead, while others accompany different forms of media: ballets such as The Nutcracker and operas like La Bohème are instantly recognizable for their grandiose and immersive scores. For a moment in time, audiences can really believe that they are traveling to a magical world with Clara, and even without the …

Sensing Space In Cinema: Widescreen And Sound As Immersive Offerings, Eloise Colette Schiffman-Eller

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

"I Love You 3000": Marvel Studios, Fandom, And Their Symbiotic Relationship, Katrina Carmen Aronovsky

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Persistence, Sacrifice, And Resistance: Life In Occupied Palestine In Three Films By Hany Abu-Assad, Hudson Hart Hooton

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Reflection On Kurosawa Akira’S Movies, Tian (Tim) Huang

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This senior project is a reflection of Kurosawa Akira’s movies. I discussed the film techniques he used and his cultural confidence. In addition, I talked about the connection between his movies and my adaption of Spring Bird.

Indecent Desires: Constructing Deviance And Morality In Doris Wishman’S Wide World Of Sleaze, Emily Ahn

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

No Sentiments, Peter Cheung

Senior Projects Fall 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Mysterious Proposal, Henry Berger

Senior Projects Fall 2021

This is a mysterious proposal regarding a trio of films which harness an ‘energizing vision’ that lingers beyond the movie theatre. There is a focus on travel, memory, landscape and the internal world. I was interested in the ways in which the ephemeral experience of film may alter the way we take in the world around us; the way we process each other.

The Auteur As Adapter: From Literature To Film In Rossellini, Godard, And Pasolini, Sundar S. Pratt

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Who's Afraid Of Peppa Pig: A Transition From Stage To Screen Acting, Timothy Steven Halvorsen

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

A Survey Of Surveillance: Reworking The Male Gaze And The Surveillance Gaze Through Art And Technology, Phoebe Rae O'Connell

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

An Echo Of Light, Anaka Marie Wetch

Senior Projects Spring 2020

My senior project film an Echo of Light is an experimental 16mm film exploring light as both a metaphysical and physical process. I became interested in light during my studies in holography, which is a medium revolving around the interference of light. I studied holography independently and with the guidance of professionals in the field. My holographic work is oriented around the natural world and its micro-constituents. I examined and photographed substances, such as salt, pyrite, and quartz with the scanning electron microscope at Bard. These materials have striking crystalline geometry which I intend to explore through the light dependent …

Our Grandparents/旧识, Yibin Wang

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A Theater and Performance senior project centering on the question of "how can we be more connected to our grandparents through playing them in front of a camera on stage?" Through exploring this question, the actor would present real stories about their grandparents on stage.

(Gardesh) گردش, Peymaan Motevalli-Aliabadi

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Mellow Night For Memories, Angelo Ilya Raphael Chammah

Senior Projects Fall 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Muse, Bettina L. Campomanes

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Artist’s Satement:

Bettina Campomanes is a Filmmaker and Music Producer specializing in online content creation and short form narrative film. Her films and music videos have garnered viral success and have earned multiple festival selections for categories such as best student director, best short, and best music video. As an electronic producer, she performs under the stage name “Valiant Vermin” and continues to mix or produce for other musical acts.

Muse is a short film about a writer who is unable to live in the present when his authorial …

#Representationmatters: A Study Of Masculinity In The Avengers Movies, Lauren F. Cooke

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

"Poetry Is Not A Luxury:" Dis-Ing Self, Dis-Ing Archive, Ehm West

Senior Projects Spring 2018

‘Poetry Is Not a Luxury:’ Dis-ing Self, Dis-sing Archive,” is divided into three separate interrogations of such rts institutions, archives, and constructions of identity. Each chapter explores how these related categories are challenged by curators, artists and artists’ respective styles or forms. My central focus investigates the use of paraficition and disidentification in Cheryl Dunye's work. In both her early video works and first feature-length film The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye investigates the complexity of her own Black lesbian identity and the constructedness of identity as a whole. She begins her practice as a moving image artist during a …

A Dream Of Nothing In 10 Chapters, William Hardt Wrubel

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Type Z, Zazie Elena Ray-Trapido

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Fire To Keep Me Warm, Hannah Isabel Sparagana

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Artist Statement - A Fire to Keep me Warm

The process of creating this film was in many respects non-linear and highly organic in its evolution. I cannot pinpoint an exact moment when the project was solely decided upon and its structure formed, whether it was to be a dramatic narrative, a visual poem, an experimental essay. Even in its final stages I have discovered this labeling to be non-essential. Rather, I would have the viewer interpret the work, navigating the piece solely through the montage of images, sound and rhythm. In my experience, this is what meaningful and inspired …

Achieving Attunement: The Evolution Of The Musical Film Toward A Total Work Of Art, Elena Catherine Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Burden, Alexa Michelle Wolf

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Burden

A Short Film by Alexa Wolf – Artist’s Statement

“So many winters, hundreds and hundreds of winters, and a gray man…walking from settlement to settlement…staring in through windows at the firelight and a joy and a burning life he would never be able to touch, never even be able to feel…”

- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

It is humbling to remember the beginning. A vague memory of a subplot in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, with no clear reason as to why it chose that moment, almost precisely a year ago, to return to my conscious thoughts. …

A Violent Reconciliation: Exploring The Rule Of Law, Violence, And States Of Exception Through John Ford’S The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance And Christopher Nolan’S The Dark Knight, Nathan Donarum

Senior Projects Fall 2011

Is it possible for extralegal action, or violence, to be reconciled with the rule of law? This is a question that intrudes upon the idea that, as Aristotle stated, “Law should govern.” In essence, the rule of law is supposed to exist to prevent, or to transition from, the arbitrary use of power and deployment of force. If the rule of law exists, then there need not be arbitrary action. But if the transition to, or re-instating of, an ordered state requires a lawless act, or acts, inherently, then no stark dichotomy between the rule of law and violence can …