OU School of Film: Winter Showcase

Viewing: January 24,2026

Join us Saturday, January 24th at 7:00 p.m. for a special event showcasing the work of students in the OHIO College of Fine Arts School of Film!

Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required

The Ohio University School of Film is proud to present the annual Winter Showcase, featuring 20 original short films created by undergraduate and graduate film students.

The showcase highlights the work of filmmakers at various stages of their academic careers as they refine their craft and expand their approaches to visual storytelling. Through experimentation with form, structure, and voice, students create films that are bold, imaginative, and emotionally resonant. These works reflect the development of their emerging artistic identities and a commitment to creative and personal expression.

The program features a mix of narrative and experimental films that explore themes of friendship, love, loss, nostalgia, transition, beauty standards, and creative burnout. Many projects were created in collaboration with students from the School of Theater and members of the Ohio University and Athens communities.

Films and Filmmakers

Our Hero, Cadet – Directed by Cam Smith. Narrative. Runtime: 9 min

Synopsis: Little Miss Head-in-the-Clouds

Open Mic – Directed by Caden Layne. Experimental. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: This is about you.

Styrophome – Directed by Emmy Williams. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: An audio-visual experience tied to a feeling of opening up and harsh recovery.

Eva – Directed by Megan Young. Animation. Runtime: 1 min

Synopsis: My first mixed media animation project, portraying my dear friend Eva, surrounded by nature and colors.

Poser – Directed by Jack Nyerges. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: Understanding the end of a friendship while slipping into an unceasing cycle of nostalgia.

Élan Vital – Directed by Andrew Bowman. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: An exploration of light, movement and body.

Canon In D – Directed by Robin Oldaker. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: Reflection, growth, transition.

The Fly of Theseus – Directed by Zinn Rogers. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: If a fly eats a plant, does the fly become the plant..?

My Thumbs Are Not Green And Neither Are My Plants – Directed by Sydney Kalafut. Animation. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: Mourning the loss of the only plant I have ever loved.

Emotional Female – Directed by Becca Harlan. Experimental. Runtime: 2 min

Synopsis: An experimental portrait of how women express emotions and how societal expectations of beauty, femininity, aging, and performance shape the perception of these emotions across generations.

Medicated – Directed by Win Yoder. Experimental. Runtime: 2 min

Synopsis: A short movement-based expression about the battle of discovering who you are and the role of medication in that journey.

My Body Is A Constellation – Directed by Sophia Alleman. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: A cosmic exploration of self.

My Side of The Creek – Directed by Emily Kinney. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: The impressions of grief.

The Tape I Found in The Woods – Directed by Julian Fahl Matlack. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: What’s up with all that abandoned infrastructure in Washington County..?

Deperson – Directed by Colin Wheeler. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: A guy opens up to his significant other while an unseen cameraman directs how his emotions should look.

DeerHunter Delta – Directed by Damario Thompson. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: After being called crazy by everyone, a passionate man who hates deer posts a video online to try to make a movement against them.

Lipstick Manifesto – Stacy Pindell. Narrative. Runtime: 13 min

Synopsis: What do you think of lipstick..?

Burnout – Directed by Wes Donnelly. Experimental. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: A representation of the creative exhaustion I experienced this semester.

Uncle Jimmy – Directed by Alaa Al-Shameri. Narrative. Runtime: 24 min

Synopsis: In the shadow of a looming pandemic, a shared home becomes a closed world, where fear redraws boundaries, reality blurs, and two lives drift apart, revealing how easily protection can become punishment.

Reverie – Directed by M.J. Golzari. Narrative. Runtime: 25 min

Synopsis: In a remote cabin, a dying woodcarver confronts his grief as reflections, memories, and longing slowly collapse into one irreversible presence.

This event is made possible through the support of the Ohio University School of Film, the Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts, and Arts for Ohio