Student Film Shown at International Film Festival
Undergraduate student Marina McKay recently had a film shown at the international Haikurts Microfilm Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
Her film was one of 100 selected. The Haikurts format is modeled after haiku, which are short poems with three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, thereby totaling 17 syllables. The Haikurts film submissions were required to have three shots, lasting 5, 7, and 5 seconds, for a total of 17 seconds. The challenge for the filmmaker was to tell a story within those 17 seconds.
Ms. McKay’s film is entitled “A Game of Chess” and stars fellow Media & Communications student John Persolus, who plays both characters in the film. The action is centered around a chess move and a counter move that perplexes one of the competitors.
The film can be viewed on YouTube or by pressing the “play” button on the video at the beginning of this blog post.
Jim Karpen is a writer by trade, with a special focus on technology. He has a Ph.D. in English and studied the impact of the computerization of language. In addition to writing for iPhone Life magazine, he has also been writing a column about the Internet for the Iowa Source since 1994. He also edits and publishes the MUM Review.