SFU Film Archive #2: Whispering Echoes

Shoelace (2024) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Mason Flint (He/Him)

12-year-old Emma drifts through the process of a challenging family loss, struggling with understanding the realities of a loved one’s passing. This film follows Emma at seven key moments throughout the 48-hour period of her grandmother's passing.

Groove, Slam, Work It Back (2023) | 4th Year Project
Dir. Amélia Simard (They/Them)

Amélia is a French-Canadian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist based in so-called Vancouver. They have written and directed short films, amongst other visual art projects. In their practice, Amélia explores themes of queerness, language through metaphors based in memory, nostalgia and the fantastical.

Closure (2024) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Jack Hogg (He/Him)

Documentarian Pet Jives interviews community members on an ongoing sidewalk closure, which slowly reveals itself to be the source of everyone's problems.

They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glistening World of the Salmon (2024) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Göran Arenas (He/Him)

This is a film I developed in my first year at SFU as an exploration of my growing interest in environmentalism and the different approaches to it. While this film critiques acts of extremism as a form of environmental protest, the story also talks about two broken boys and the complex dynamics of their one-sided relationship.

Clementine (2022) | Smallfile Project (1st Year)
Dir. Natalie Turnbull (She/Her)

A sweet film about a very, very old cat.

Stay (2023) | 3rd Year Project
Dir. Sofi Badzio (They/Them)

Experimental, 16mm, b&w. Processed & spliced at SFU.

Philling In The Blanks (2022) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Ezra Franky (She/Her)

A philm for everyone.

Diplopia (2022) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Yousif Kairee (Any Pronouns) & Ethan Ukrainetz (He/Him)

A socially inept kid dissociates into another person that’s the life of the party. When this version of himself gets out of control, he
struggles to contain him.

Bus Stop (2024) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Mikayla Luchinski (She/Her)

A strange conversation between two strangers at a bus stop.

Reverie
Dir. Sabrina Badyal & Raeanne Cummings

Juliet, a young ballet dancer, pushes herself harder than ever in hopes of getting her dream principal role.

Leave? (2024) | 1st Year Project
Dir. Akhil J. Narayanan (He/Him)

Five people weave their way through a seemingly normal art gallery exhibition, until someone disrupts the preexisting structure, plunging them into a dilemma they must overcome.