Visions Hits the Road: Screening Tour Schedule

This semester, Visions is excited to announce that we're hitting the pavement and taking undergraduate film to the streets—and we're coming to a campus near you.


The undergraduate films featured at the Visions Film Festival & Conference each year are more than just "student films." From Jing Niu's stark experimentation in "Man Is Always On the Stairs" (UNC-Chapel Hill), to Grant Reed's sleek crowd favorite, "Incest! The Musical" (Chapman University), these films are each remarkable feats in undergraduate filmmaking—sparking discussion, commentary, and the exchange of idea among film students young and old.

Even the best undergraduate films sometimes aren't seen outside of festival and conference circuits. As we begin to launch our festival year and a new call for entries, Visions is going on tour to showcase last year's official film selections at select Southeastern regional universities and undergraduate film programs. At each destination, we'll also give young filmmakers and film scholars information on how to submit their films and papers for consideration in the 2013 Visions Film Festival & Conference. Go to www.visionsfilm.org/tour to find dates and schools where you can catch exclusive screenings of these must-see undergraduate films.

The program and line-up of films is as follows:


Hindsight
Emerson College, 14 minutes

A portrait of the seasonal rituals of a small town in New England that blends experimental and documentary filmmaking. Shot over the course of a year, this film acts as a visual and aural eulogy for the place director Sean Hanley once called home.  Winner of the Excellence in Experimental Award at the 2012 Visions Film Festival and Conference.


Coup Savage
L'Institut national de l'image et du son, 7 minutes 20 seconds

After a traumatic accident, a mother's grief alters her perception of her surroundings.  This dark and cerebral film earned Visions' Excellence in Narrative Award in 2012.



Dissonance
Rochester Institute of Technology, 4 minutes

“There is music in perfection." A wonderfully harmonious 3D animated film, Dissonance features a robot in a room full of clocks, trying to maintain order. Winner of the Excellence in Animation Award at Visions 2012.


The Elect
Notre Dame, 19 minutes 25 seconds

A short cinema-verite-style documentary that follows members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church as they go about their everyday lives.


Man Is Always On the Stairs
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 8 minutes 15 seconds

A child climbs a staircase to find a vast field inhabited by humans whose roaming, naked bodies appear and disappear within the shadows of tall hay stalks.  A poetic rhythm of light, celluloid and nihilism.


The Birds Upstairs
New York University, 8 minutes 34 seconds

Frustrated attempts to conceive children overwhelm the lives of an aristocratic, avian couple in the early nineteenth century.  Director Chris Jarvis' brilliantly twisted tale was granted the top honor of the festival in 2012 -- the Visionary Award.


Incest!  The Musical
Dodge College of Film & Media Arts, 23 minutes

As prom night approaches, Alex and Katie confess their love for each other.  The only problem is... they're siblings.  This raunchy high school musical, a crowd favorite at Visions 2012, goes to hilarious extremes the likes of which you couldn't imagine, or would even want to.