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Pre-Professional, Sophia C. Doctoroff
Pre-Professional, Sophia C. Doctoroff
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Sonya Sternberg, a former pre-professional ballet student, must navigate a new life and a shattered sense of self after an emotional breakdown forces her to leave the dance world in this eight-hour semi-autobiographical limited drama series. The action toggles back and forth between periods of Sonya’s life: her darkly eccentric and at times endearingly quirky childhood in suburban upstate New York, her deliriously joyous year as a ballet student in New York City, her tortured teenage years, and her soul-searching time at a rural New York college.
Fell Awake, Caleb M A Short
Fell Awake, Caleb M A Short
Senior Projects Spring 2020
“My birthday was yesterday, was it not?”
In my senior thesis film I explore the transience of life, of time, and interpersonal relationship.
We follow our central character, Elias, during the night of his 21st birthday party and the day to follow. In this new day, time, space, and the relationships with those closest to him have changed.
“All time is immemorial. The present is the future ignored, the past not remembered; but how can you hold on to thin air?”