April 11, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood
Update 5/10/2023: The MACS Student Showcase program is now available to
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MACS 150: Intro to Digital Media Production
00:00:18 – Alma (Ethan Hill, Kara Yoo, and Ben Shlau)
00:04:33 – The Radio Doctor (Eleni Sakas, Caroline Tadla, Roderick Carbins, and Juliana Chang)
00:11:25 – The Indelible Goodbye (Andrew Stover, Ryan Pasterz, and Raegan Gooding)
00:16:07 – Strawberry (Paul Duarte-Noe, Jiyayi Jing, Yuhan Zhou, and Nick Chan)
00:20:33 – Drink of Fate (Gavin Schroeder, Joey Chan, and Emily Kunst)
00:24:23 – Specter鈥檚 Market (Jasper Chang, Miles Gregory, Amy Bradu, and Sierra McKeiver)
MACS 199: Documentary and Social Change
00:29:21 – One Big Midwestern University: 鈥淎nti-Transgender Hate Speech鈥� (Ryan Boyd-Sharpe)
MACS 205: Introduction to Documentary
00:44:47 – Romanian Communist Propaganda – A Personal and Archival Perspective (Francesca Dumitrescu)
MACS 260: Film Production
00:55:43 – Ready Set Action (Mike Besler)
01:04:53 – The Bookkeeper (Mara Smith and Mark Magallanes)
01:13:05 – The Sharpie, the Sheet, and the Sapphic (Michelle Wang)
01:20:12 – Crumbs of Deception (Max Szykowny and Akkhiel Nambbiar)
01:26:34 – Still Damp (Jake Vanoss)
MACS 284: Animated Media from Mickey to GIFs
01:56:31 – How to Make a Song Out of Clay (Matt Fanelli)
01:58:27 – Fossils (Sam Fisher)
MACS 485: Making Video Essays
02:01:23 – Howl鈥檚 Moving Castle Moving (Nancy Jia)
02:05:21 – [Un]Framing Movement: [Non]Action Cinema of King Hu (Tingyu Chen)
MACS 370: Cinematography and Sound
02:08:49 – Time to Remember鈥ime to Forget (Cameron Taylor and Samarth Taneja)
02:19:08 – Life is No Picnic (Michelle Husain)
MACS 480: Advanced Filmmaking
02:31:49 – St. Anthony鈥檚 Fire (Michelle Husain, Mark Magallanes, Mara Smith, and Cameron Taylor)
The Department of Media & Cinema Studies presents the inaugural MACS Student Showcase, featuring faculty-curated work created by students in MACS classes throughout the academic year.
The event, which celebrates student media production, will be held on Saturday, May 6, at 7 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium of Spurlock Museum. The showcase will screen more than a dozen film projects and a podcast excerpt representing eight different MACS courses, all produced by both individual and groups of students.
Derek Long, assistant professor of media and cinema studies, said the idea for the event originated from faculty discussions about the 鈥渟heer amount of excellent student work鈥� coming out of the program.
鈥淢ACS faculty wanted to celebrate all the amazing experiential work that our students are doing in our program,鈥� Long said. 鈥淎s faculty, we wanted to put on an event showing off our students鈥� impressive work to a bigger audience than just their instructor and class.鈥�
The showcase is also an opportunity to share the world premiere of the MACS 480: Advanced Filmmaking short St. Anthony鈥檚 Fire. Advanced Filmmaking, taught by Victor Font, lecturer of media and cinema studies, is one of the capstone production courses where students work as a production team for an entire semester to produce a professional 27-minute short film.
鈥淎s you can imagine, the students who have been working on St. Anthony鈥檚 Fire for months and months are very excited about being able to share their film with friends, family, and the general public for the first time,鈥� Long said.
Faculty chose the best student-produced work received in their classes from last fall and this spring, aiming to showcase a variety of work, including projects that exemplified excellent technical and aesthetical aspects as well as a compelling subject or theme. Long said they also tried to represent a diverse range of genres, approaches, and student voices.
鈥淐utting all the work we receive in an academic year down to a selection of just over two hours was a big challenge,鈥� he said. 鈥淭here was lots of excellent student work that we just didn鈥檛 have time to include.鈥�
Long said they hope to be able to include more podcast and digital media work in future showcases.
View the trailer for the MACS Student Showcase: