Hold the Sun is a film about our ability and inability to connect. It is about loneliness, magic and politics all existing simultaneously within the fabric of our everyday lives. Gwennie (Nicole Mills- Novoa) is a 20-something taxidermist who spends just as much time in her head as she does in reality. Bonnie (Ching-Yi Tseng) is a painter having trouble coming up with ideas of her own and Ellen (Maya Mahrer) is a travel writer who spends most of her time in the confines of her apartment. Through these characters and the many people they encounter, the film portrays a community of queer women overcoming the self-doubt and fear that haunts them.

This debut feature film by Laura Zaylea and David Yun moves beyond traditional identity politics and instead depicts queer lives that are nuanced, complex and full of the same emotions and desires that drive us all. In exploring these themes, Hold the Sun puts forth a visual lexicon where intonation, body language, and gesture are just as important as words. One that acknowledges how technology has transformed the way we communicate and where traditional ideas about what “queer” looks like is challenged.

Part travelogue, part diary film, part fiction, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? tells the story of an unnamed individual finding himself through brief, fleeting glimpses at his reflection in the world around him.

In A Taste of Home filmmaker David Yun attempts to reconcile the feelings of alienation he experienced while growing up in a suburban Detroit town with the emotions felt after returning home to care for his terminally ill mother. Combining landscape cinematography with a highly personal voiceover, A Taste of Home documents the filmmaker's changing relationship with his hometown under these new sets of circumstances while relating to larger questions of identity and our always changing relationships to our familial and communal histories.

A film that juxtaposes found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by Babar Ahmad, a Muslim prisoner accused of running Al-Qaeda websites who was once slated for extradition to Guantanamo Bay and remains in prision. In linking the two, the film traces a connection between the way Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how Muslims in the U.S. and abroad are being treated in a post-9/11 world while raising larger questions about the fragility of our own freedoms.

Digital Scratch Films are a series of works that explore the aesthetic possibilities of digital video. The name refers to a practice by experimental filmmakers in which they physically manipulate a film by painting, scratching, and hand procesing film stock producing a "scratch film". The idea is to think about video in the same frame-by-frame manner and perfecting digital "scratching" techniques in software such as Photoshop and Final Cut Pro.