{"id":18635,"date":"2022-08-26T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ue.edu.ph\/cal\/?p=18635"},"modified":"2022-08-26T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:32:59","slug":"ue-visual-communication-students-earn-accolades-in-film-and-art-residencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ue.edu.ph\/cal\/ue-visual-communication-students-earn-accolades-in-film-and-art-residencies\/","title":{"rendered":"UE Visual Communication Students Earn Accolades in Film and Art Residencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Students of the University of the East College of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design (CFAD) continue to make waves in the local and international art scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jericho Cedric Maravilla, a third-year Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) major in Visual Communication student, won 2nd Place in the Animation Category of the Cultural Center of the Philippines\u2019 34th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibo Pelikula at Video 2022\u2014touted as the oldest independent film festival in Asia\u2014for his film \u2018Black and White Road\u2019. The festival\u2019s jury also awarded Mr. Maravilla a special citation for Experimental Animation for the said film, which depicts sensitive topics such as self-harm and suicide. It tells a story about an artist’s journey, of how he wanted to escape reality through the \u201cBlack and White Road\u201d of illusions, the surreal, and his imagination because at the end of the road is where he finds peace, happiness and freedom. The surreal visuals along the Black and White Road are based on his artworks, which are parallel to the real events and situations of his life that shows how he fell out of love with himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Gawad Alternatibo awardee is James Benedict Calleja, a Yearend 2022 graduate with the UE degree of BFA major in Visual Communication, Magna Cum Laude. He who won the Honorable Mention Award for his short experimental film \u2018I Wanna Be a Tutubi\u2019 (\u2018I Wanna Be a Dragonfly\u2019) under the Experimental Category. The film is based on the \u201ctutubi\u201d Filipino children\u2019s game that involves hiding a small object, such as a stone, in the players’ palms. The game\u2019s mechanics and chant are a metaphor for how it feels to be queer hiding in the closet for a very long time, and the feeling of longing for freedom\u2014hiding their true sexuality hindering them from living their lives to the fullest and be free. Mr. Calleja\u2019s film wants to show how someone\u2019s awareness of their sexuality for a long time carries this feeling of longing to be free from the closet and the feeling of relief after they have the chance to finally release the \u201cstone\u201d or the fear that they have been holding on to their whole life. Before its Gawad CCP Alternatibo selection, the film had its world premiere at the historic city center of the 18th Athens Digital Art Festival in Greece on May 25, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I Wanna be a Tutubi\u2019 was also part of the curated International Art Exhibition for Solidarity at the Alphabet Art Centre, the New Museum of Networked Art, Agricola de Cologne at artvideoKOELN, together with four other experimental shorts: \u2018The Loud Quietude\u2019 by fourth-year UE BFA major in Visual Communication student Anjella Gieneena Cruz; \u2018Station of Anxiety\u2019 by Maria Ysabela Santos, a Yearend 2022 UE BFA major in Visual Communication graduate, Magna Cum Laude; \u2018Painting the Light\u2019 by Yssa Marie Flores, a Yearend 2022 UE BFA Visual Communication graduate, Cum Laude; and \u2018First to Turn, Last to Arrive\u2019 by Timothy Tatel, likewise a Yearend 2022 UE BFA major in Visual Communication graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Flores\u2019s \u2018Painting with Light\u2019 had a United States premiere, at the VisArts Center Rockville. Meanwhile, Mr. Tatel’s \u2018First to Turn, Last to Arrive\u2019 was also screened as part of the official exhibition program of India\u2019s M3:G3 Cross Encounters Film Festival 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other UE CFAD Visual Communication students are on a roll in festivals both here and abroad. Third-year BFA major in Visual Communication student Angelo Miguel \u201cUlap\u201d Chua is representing the Philippines in the Tokyo Festival Farm Lab, a three-month performance art camp. He was selected out of hundreds of applicants through a rigorous screening process, from project application to panel interviews. Tokyo Festival Farm is a framework for education outreach and creative talent development. It was launched in 2021 by combining Asian Performing Arts Farm (APAF), a platform promoting exchange and growth among young artists in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Chua is part of the \u201cLab\u201d program that aims to cultivate young professionals who can freely navigate the many increasingly fluid borders of our world. In his proposed project titled Performing Hybridity\u2013Photojournalism as a tool for theater making, the creative work is inspired by the concept and ideals of \u201cwabi sabi\u201d or, in traditional Japanese aesthetics, a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Mr. Chua\u2019s theater background and photography obsession over the symmetry, the perfection of a shot, and composition brought him to encounter the ideals and philosophy of wabi sabi. To see the beauty in impermanence, and imperfection, in turn seeing flawed things as beautiful, appreciating the melancholy that time evokes, and a strong respect for life\u2019s fragility and withering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three-month hybrid art residency started last August 3, 2022, and Mr. Chua needs to present a project on October 16, for the open sharing session. He is the first UE student accepted into this comprehensive urban arts festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations and kudos, Warrior Artists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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