Samuel Wright Smith
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Biography
Sam Smith is a photographer, filmmaker, cinematographer and visual artist located in Cincinnati, Ohio and New York, New York. Smith was surrounded by visual art from a young age, and it quickly became a basis of his identity. He has made it his goal to share images that are both personal and universal. Smith is attending the prestigious New York University Tisch Film/TV program.
Known For
A lonely man’s obsession with an online mukbang livestreamer leads to a tense confrontation with an unsuspecting dinner guest.
Supper
Alfie Zimmer, a traveling salesman, pulls into a motel for the night. He settles in and pulls out a revolver, ready to commit suicide. Alfie has a hobby of recording, into a notebook, random bathroom graffiti which he has discovered on his long, lonely travels.
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
A high school senior girl finds that there's more value to her than meets the eye after being photographed by one of her classmates.
Images
Thomas Clark, a screenwriter known for his B-movies, struggles to remain relevant while fighting to get his name off of the Hollywood Blacklist.
Red Ink
Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley of Vermont.
The Balloonist
A man slowly loses his mind as a strange ticking noise destroys his life.
Tick
The story of a young man struggling with the loss of his mother, and the added responsibility of caring for his brother while battling drug addiction.
Viceroy
Circuit bent gain controller run into a CRT TV
Transmissions
When a 10-year-old girl is forced to spend the weekend with her older sister, she becomes drawn to a pendant, and the night takes a deadly turn.
Crimson Ties
An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather
Our Lady of Loreto
This experimental animated short shows the life of a forest through storms, seasons, and a variety of art forms.
Life Eternal
The watercolor-painted animated short depicts an Ancient Aztec human sacrifice.
Eztli
A neo-noir short film about three kids who get caught up in a night of chaos and violence after accidentally killing their drug dealer in a game of Russian roulette. The film explores the themes of substance abuse, peer pressure and the effects of bad decisions in a style reminiscent of intense thrillers like "Green Room" or "Good Time."
Good Kids
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. An ecstatic, pineal voyage into an ocean of bliss made from cutouts of old magazines, stencils, yearbooks, lace patterns, etc.
That Gives/That Takes
A collective oil pastel-animated reflection on death, as shared by individuals facing the end of life aided by psychedelic-assisted care.
Embodied
A heartrending expression of mortality and loss through animated collage.