SFU Film Archive: #1 – GENESIS
Online + Live Screening
Room 4365 (Soundstage)
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Featuring films (in order of the evening's programming) by SCA student filmmakers Kai MacDonnell, Colleen Bayati, Mimi Huszti & Carlo Marchet, Audrey Kerridge, Tawan Ploydee, Anastasia Shatska, Quinn Masselink, Sophia English, Yousif Kairee, Riordan Huenemann, and Taya Van Dyke.
Organized by Yousif Kairee, SFU Film Archive: #1 – GENESIS is the first in a (hopefully!) continuing series of screenings organized by the SCA Film Student Union. An important goal of the series is to also make available films by SCA student filmmakers for prospective applicants to the SCA Film area, as well.
1. OPHANIM (2022)
Dir. Kai MacDonnell (He/Him) | 1st Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: N/A
RUNTIME: 00:08:00
CONTENT WARNING: Moderately suitable for general audiences
BIO: “An experimental film where Kai wanted to mess with camera perspective and movement.”
2. BIRDS I VIEW (2023)
Dir. Colleen Bayati (She/Her) | 3rd Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Instagram | YouTube
RUNTIME: 00:06:08
CONTENT WARNING: Suitable for all audiences
BIO: “Born in Vancouver, BC, Colleen Bayati is currently finishing her studies in Film Production at SFU. She has worked in community and commercial productions in production management, set dec, lighting, and projection design. In her individual films, she enjoys animation, movement, and colouring. Birds I View is an experimental hybrid film. Utilizing found footage and alternative imagery to craft a narrative, the film discusses the boundaries of observation and violation in media and real life through the lens of the narrator’s hatred of birds and their annual Bird Circus.”
3. BREAKING THE SILENCE (2022)
Dir. Mimi Huszti (She/Her) & Carlo Marchet (He/Him) | 1st Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Carlo: Instagram | Mimi: YouTube + Instagram
RUNTIME: 00:03:43
CONTENT WARNING: Suitable for all audiences
BIO: “As he starts his morning routine, a man becomes increasingly disturbed with the sounds in his environment.”
4. DESYNCHRONOSIS (2021)
Dir. Audrey Kerridge (She/Her) | 2nd Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: YouTube
RUNTIME: 00:09:08
CONTENT WARNING: Suitable for all audiences
BIO: “Audrey Kerridge is a 4th year film student at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts. DESYNCHRONOSIS is a short live-action/animated film created during her second year at SFU.”
5. VHS CHASE (2022)
Dir. Tawan Ploydee (He/Him) | 2nd Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: YouTube
RUNTIME: 00:06:28
CONTENT WARNING: Not suitable for very young audiences
BIO: “A creative montage of bloody slasher chases curated by Tawan Ploydee”
6. A SIGHT TO SEE (2022)
Dir. Anastasia Shatska (She/Her) | 1st Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Instagram
RUNTIME: 00:06:30
CONTENT WARNING: Moderately suitable for general audiences
BIO: “My name is Anastasia Shatska, I was born and raised in Odesa, Ukraine. As a director, my creative practice is centred around exploring the inherent beauty and melancholy of the female experience through an experimental approach, with a special focus on cinematography and production design.”
7. JUST MARRIED (2022)
Dir. Quinn Masselink (They/Them) | 1st Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Instagram
RUNTIME: 00:06:13
CONTENT WARNING: Not suitable for very young audiences
BIO: "A recently wedded girl tries to cover her tracks before the police arrive."
8. BONES (2023)
Dir. Sophia English (She/They) | 3rd Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Instagram
RUNTIME: 00:09:59
CONTENT WARNING: Not suitable for very young audiences.
BIO: “Sophia Santos English is a Filipino-Canadian filmmaker based in ‘Vancouver, BC’ working on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her body of work blends poetry and the moving image while pursuing themes of decolonization, cosmic embodiment, and sexuality. Her work centers on bi-racial identity, specifically within the Filipino diaspora.”
10. SEE THE FOREST (2023)
Dir. Riordan Huenemann (He/Him) | 4th Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Instagram
RUNTIME: 00:08:51
CONTENT WARNING: Suitable for all audiences
BIO: “Upon moving to a new town, Mia's parents notice that her mood has been… not great. Together, they hatch a series of increasingly elaborate, invasive, and inappropriate schemes to make her happy. The schemes all inevitably lead to failure. Mia's parents decide to try one big last-ditch effort. Through their efforts, they realize that the answer may have been simpler than they thought.”
11. FOR THE TREES (2023)
Dir. Taya Van Dyke (She/Her) | 4th Year Film
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG: Instagram
RUNTIME: 00:12:58
CONTENT WARNING: Suitable for all audiences
BIO: “Taya Van Dyke has lived in Edmonton most of her life where she attended an Arts School and fell in love with the behind-the-scenes processes of making art through her theater tech programme and was inspired to try her hand at filmmaking. She graduated from SFU in 2023. Through her work and often through a queer and neurodivergent lens, (and often with a little taste of Camp) Taya seeks to explore how the mundanity of ordinary and personal life can interact with elements of the fantastical and otherworldly, and how that mundanity is altered or preserved through encountering otherness.”