Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio Shorts 2020
Run Time: 87 min. Rating: NR
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The Wexner Center for the Arts annual Ohio Shorts program showcases Ohio’s rich and diverse filmmaking culture. Last year’s program, which was moved online due to the COVID shutdown, was viewed by about 3,000 viewers in over a dozen countries.
2021 marks Ohio Shorts’ 25th anniversary and the Wex has plans to present the program, which will be curated by Cincinnati-based artist Prentiss Haney, both online and in person. To learn more about the program or to enter, visit the Wexner Center for the Arts website here.
This is a presentation of the 2020 program.
Program:
John Wick
Filmmaker: Kieran Murphy
Runtime: 01:28
Division: Youth | Athens High School
Synopsis: In a challenging situation, John Wick tries to do the right thing.
Gremulon
Filmmakers: Joseph Branderhorst and Devin Lapp
Runtime: 02:03
Division: Youth | Olentangy Liberty High School
Synopsis: An alien is interviewing for an office job while trying to not let the interviewer find out that he’s an alien.
Amber
Filmmaker: Ross Jeffers and Sean Russell
Runtime: 04:38
Division: Youth | Rutherford B. Hayes High School
Synopsis: A man witnesses himself stuck in an amber of time.
The G.O.A.T.
Filmmaker: Keisha Martin
Runtime: 07:59
Division: Adult | Atwater, OH
Synopsis: Stuck in life, a maid named Terry jams through her work shifts (holding her head high and her music even higher) until an unforeseen force stops the music.
2020 Ohio Shorts Audience Choice Award Winner ($300)
blink of an eye
Filmmaker: Maya Sophia Neyman
Runtime: 02:01
Division: Youth | The Ohio State University
Synopsis: This film explores the idea of growing up too fast; the simplicity of youth goes by in the blink of an eye.
The loop
Filmmaker: Layla Ayoub
Runtime: 00:57
Division: Youth | Hilliard Davidson High School
Synopsis: This is an animation depicting the thoughts of a girl on a loop.
2020 Ohio Shorts Jury Award Winner ($500)
MUÑE
Filmmaker: Catalina Jordan Alvarez
Runtime: 14:28
Division: Adult | Yellow Springs, OH
Synopsis: Shrink-wrapped baby-doll toes, skillet-fried roaches, salvage-yard showdowns: MUÑE is an unhinged romp through rural Tennessee, the likes of which you’ve never seen before.
Love and Family
Filmmaker: Jolie Chen
Runtime: 01:53
Division: Youth | Olentangy Liberty High School
Synopsis: Asian dramas have become increasingly popular. I’ve decided to cash in on the trend.
Hou Yi and the Ten Sons
Filmmaker: Yunze “Jet” Ni
Runtime: 01:48
Division: Adult | Fuzhou, China/Columbus, OH
Synopsis: Hou Yi and the Ten Sons reinterprets a classic Chinese tale in the context of modern-day issues such as global warming and capitalism.
Omobinrin Mi (My Daughters)
Filmmakers: Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide
Runtime: 13:46
Division: Adult | Columbus, OH
Synopsis: Modupe is the glue that holds her family together, but when times get tough, it takes the help of her daughters for her to come to terms with the truth.
Unhinged
Filmmakers: Hayden Milewsky and Simone Massis
Runtime: 03:39
Division: Youth | Rutherford B. Hayes High School
Synopsis: A man slowly becomes unhinged from himself and his reality.
Welcome to Violence!
Filmmaker: Ryan Wise
Runtime: 08:52
Division: Adult | Pataskala, OH
Synopsis: How does the soul react to abjection based on the physical attributes of its vessel? Occupy the subject position of a black male born at the turn of this century. (I made this when I was angry)
Grandma/Obāchan
Filmmaker: Cora K. Hasegawa
Runtime: 07:17
Division: Adult | Oberlin, OH
Synopsis: My whole life I have always wondered who my grandmothers really were. Through conversations with my parents, I explore my grandmother’s lives and the losses that affected my family and shaped my personal and cultural identity.
In Praise of Angela
Filmmaker: Edit Jakab
Runtime: 14:54
Division: Adult | Athens, OH
Synopsis: A satirical ode to the Midwest that addresses existential issues (like the responsibility of parenthood, the pursuit of dreams, and whether we should take ourselves all that seriously) through humorous, ironic vignettes.
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