Susana Pineda
MFA 2 - Music
The Mermaid
The Mermaid is a collaborative music video and one of the 6 pieces of my thesis project "Inner Creatures." "Inner Creatures" explores the development motivations, characteristics and environments of the different sub-personalities within the psyche. "The Mermaid" is the sub-personality that deals with the emergence of sexuality, sexual identity, femininity and the need for self-determination.
Susana Pineda: music composition, vocals and art direction
Camilo Ramirez, video director, video projections and video editing
Natalia Lassalle, photography director, camera
Nikki Nistal, dancer
Sky Spiegel, choreographer
Zhen Zhen Zhong, costume design and makeup
Nicolas Maldonado, production assistant
Duncan Stever, music production, mixing, synths and drum programing
Kevin Moran, world percussion
Josh Turner, electric bass
Lorelei Acuna
Indigarb Fast fashion is the world’s second largest polluter, emitting 10% of all carbon emissions and is dumped into lands and oceans all over the world. In Our compilation of video and photography come together to evoke empathetic response in our viewers. By seeing humans absorbed in plastic, we mirror the way our Earth and […]
Emmanuel Bradshaw
Cloudcast An art therapy piece that utilizes a car experience to guide the audience in an intimate experience of self
Sungjae Lee
Wind and Wave Drawings is a series of motion drawings that intrinsically shows only one piece of thread; the video describes how the shape of the thread is changed by the wave of water and wind. By gathering these diversified shapes of the original thread, this project challenges the fundamental origin of the world that […]
Jiayu Zhang
Unbuilt Door Unbuilt Door is a collaborative sound installation between Jiayu Zhang and Joana P. Cardozo during the emergency state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020. Jiayu and Joana were studio neighbors at CalArts. This piece offers an imagination practice for the participants to visualize the border of their individual space. The participants are […]
Max Harper
Apollo, Apollo! In this swift hell, firefighters wore upwards of seventy-five pounds of gear, as they walked atop a landscape rendered to burning coal. Guided only by headlights, the firefighters would soak the path in front of them. Every step released a fine silt of red embers and ash that moved weightlessly through the air, […]
Adam Peltier
home movies “sometimes i wish i was a woman, just so i could have an abortion” – john waters Connor Linnerooth "Lords and Ringz" – Last Week's Weather Tonight A celebrity guest and phone calls. What could go wrong? two jokes joke + joke = jokes
Minline Lee
Silver & Matte grey series The avatars of digital era
Jamie Naqvi
Scenes Inspired by film, memory, and collage, “Scenes” uses found and original material to recreate three scenes from its author’s life.