PHIL HASTINGS
filmmaker, artist, educator
Curated Student Work
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Student Work Highlight Reel
Organized from Capstone work to foundation level classes.
Showcasing a variety of learning objectives, techniques and processes.
Capstone/Thesis Projects
Four Seasons of Winter
Capstone Project
A personal experimental essay on problematic relationships and growth.
Bound By Spring
Capstone Project
A narrative film exploring loss and troubled communication between a father and daughter through magical realism.
Please Don’t Touch
Capstone Project
Three-channel video installation exploring neurodivergence and interpersonal relationships.
The Semi-Interactive Educational Experience for Physiological Processes in the Human Body Series, Episode I The Process of Speaking
Capstone Project
A film exploring educational film parodies and interpersonal and institutional communications.
Advanced Camera Tech and Narrative Techniques
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Advanced Camera Tech, Spec Ad
A product spec ad incorporating tools and techniques learned in the Advanced Camera Tech class.
Momentary Beauty
Advanced Camera Tech, Microscopy Exercise
An introduction to microscopes, diopters and closeup rings for cinematic purposes.
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Advanced Camera Tech, Group Project
Introduction to 16mm Shooting and hand processing.
Tuesday
Narrative Techniques, Ragfodder
Finding source material in the written word of Newspapers.
Baby Shoe
Narrative Techniques, The Constructed Image
Narrative work exploring meaning through image construction and surrealism. Artist/Filmmakers discussed include Maya Deren, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Shared Hopes Fears Dreams Anxieties and Longings
Narrative Techniques, Group Project
A cathartic study on interconnectedness and isolation – A class project shot and edited remotely during the covid pandemic. Inspired by Mike Figgis' Timecode 2000.
Cinema Arts II and Cinema Arts III
Keys
Cinema Arts II, KInetic Energy Project
A single-shot performative project that explores how to build and release cinematic tension. Goals include a response of relief that the work is over or a strong desire to experience the piece again.
Away From It
Cinema Arts II, Memaphor Project
Memory/Metaphor - Use of objects as metaphor recounting personal memory. Use of voice over or direct address, discussion of truth versus fiction and ideas of an unreliable narrator. Artists/Filmmakers discussed include Bill Viola and John Smith.
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Cinema Arts II, The Phoenix Project
Creation through destruction – students are provided random footage that they must digitally destroy and transform into something completely new. Custom effects, meaning through abstraction advanced animation techniques. Artist/Filmmakers discussed include Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage.
Source Material for Untitled Phoenix Project
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Cinema Arts II, Final Obstruction
Final open project that builds on skills developed through the semester. A Personal Essay Film finding direction and reflecting on transitions and trajectories of a life.
Footprint
Cinema Arts III, Time Folding Upon Itself
Finding meaning through alternative editing techniques. Advancing ideas from Cinema Arts II Phoenix Project (see below) and nonlinear storytelling exercises in the Narrative Techniques class.
Artists/Filmmakers discussed include Martin Arnold, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler and Peter Tscherkassky.
Foundations of Time-Based Media and Cinema Arts I
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Foundation of Time-Based Media, Direct Animation
An introduction to painting on 16mm.
Insatiable
Foundations of Time-Based Media, Pixilation
A group project exploring animation techniques, group dynamics fundamentals of time-based work. Artist/Filmmakers - Norman Mclaren, Jan Švankmajer.
Exhaust
Cinema Arts I, Cinematic Moment
First project single take one minute – communicate an exchange between two subjects. Artist/Filmmakers - Lumiere & Company documentary as context and inspiration.
Memphis Corner
Cinema Arts I, Aesthetics of the Ordinary
Poetic documentary focusing on place/environment or object.
Artist/Filmmakers - Leighton Pierce, Matt McCormick, Commercials and Title Sequences.
Grounded
Cinema Arts I, Aesthetics of the Ordinary
Poetic documentary focusing on a place/environment or object.
Artist/Filmmakers - Leighton Pierce, Matt McCormick, Commercials and Title Sequences.