"This ridge of landscape, always struck me, ever-changing by the season and the light of day. It looks like a spine and/ or a gentle hill to climb, a ridge to dance upon and a hill to tumble down. Somewhat analogous to life itself. It also makes me think of facing fear, and the merits of falling down. Things in your head, put to physical form. Strength and vulnerability in one. Elements of this film I have wanted to make for a long time, or at least attempt, but maybe I was afraid." - Cheryl Dunn 2010

"Life Coach is a stream of consciousness collection of film, stop motion and traditional animation elements that were created in Los Angeles and Chicago (with stops in Virginia, Wisconsin, Salt Lake City and London) over a period of a few weeks. Using geometric shapes, quiet outdoor scenes and a minimal color palette, we experimented with abstract and sometimes absurdist ways of delving into themes of hope vs. doom, euphoria, boredom, solitude, anxiety, apocalypse and rapture." - Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt

"This video is a short time laps video of legendary graffiti artist RISK freestyling a wall at Art Basel in Miami. There were many talented artists from around the world at Art basel. Many legendary artists congregated in the Wynwood Arts District., In typical RISK fashion, RISK grabbed some cans and impressed the crowd with an incredible impromptu piece." - David Choe 2010

"When I first decided what I was going to make for this project, I wanted to go dig through old footage that I'd filmed when I attended high school in Okinawa, Japan in 1996 and make a dedication to that moment in time. Upon going through the old footage I discovered something totally unexpected and haunting that not only reshaped this project entirely, but challenged my memories. Could these 'Lost Moments' and 'Ghosts of the Past' have always been there? And are they still following me today? I'm not sure, but I invite you to take this journey with me." - Franki Chan

"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own." - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

"Stormy night, stars, scary flowers, strong winds, red trees and a pink beastie. Lightning strikes, there's a charge in the air, crickets chirp, and loons call beware, a faint sound of bag pipes drifting on a draft and mysterious rumbling a way off, glowworms glimmer and soar through the stratosphere, pinkness and redness together in the fracas, falling or flying, there is magic afoot." – Mackie Osborne

"Air Dancers was conceived on the first day of a college 3D animation course I would eventually drop a week later. At the time, I was also enrolled in a video class and both were such a heavy load that they couldn't possibly taken simultaneously. Forced to choose, I shelved the 3D class and Air Dancers with it only to bring it back 8 years later, predictably, as a live-action video. Both parodying and critiquing a (somewhat) bygone pre-recession era of over-produced, low concept music videos, this was a great opportunity to create something fun that glorified limited resources. Embracing the childhood notion that whenever you're not watching inanimate objects they take on a life of their own, this video is an exploration of what these civic fixtures must all be doing on the holidays when every tire shop, mechanic, and linen outlet is closed and observing." - Matt Goldman

"The typewriter footage created in my piece represents the ongoing tension in creating a captivating work. It is a struggle to produce potent works and sometimes overworking a piece can lead you into a tailspin of writer's block. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" - SSUR

"I went outside to play around with some animation tests on a beautiful day when there was a little break in the rainy weather. A small stray cat I had recently adopted, named Popcorn, kept invading and investigating everything I tried to do, so I eventually gave in and decided to follow him around instead. He was so restless that I thought it would be funny if his curiosity was never satisfied, and he ended up narrowly missing each little magic moment as he explored the wild backyard. The music is a lost classic by guitarist Don R. Auten, that I became obsessed with listening to during this same stretch of rainy days." - Souther Salazar

"Concentrating on things that "pop!" in a variety of ways– our video highlights acts of presentation and interaction using a simplified vocabulary, repetition and bright colors. Aesthetically somewhere between instructional video and infomercial, this work follows our interest in clichés by employing a range of popular video tricks. We were also interested creating a "still life" that moves... ever so slightly." - Gluekit