Friday, Oct. 5 | 7 p.m. | Glasrud Auditorium, Weld Hall As part of Homecoming festivities MSUM’s School of Media Arts & Design presents an evening of short films created by their Film alumni. The six award-winning filmmakers will screen some of their most recent projects including, Zach Wentz’s space drama, “HAM,” which just took top honors in the LA […]
Monday, July 9 | 7:30 p.m. | Glasrud Auditorium MSUM’s School of Media Arts & Design and the Red River Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society presents an evening of silent comedy shorts in honor of Dave Knutson, Monday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Glasrud Auditorium. The films will be accompanied by live pipe-organ music in honor of […]
The High Plains Reader recently featured two LA-based SoMAD Film alumni, Chris Haskell ’09 and Brent Rockswold ’06 in their cover story “The Dream Factory.” Both Chris and Brent work for trailer houses in Los Angeles, designing and editing motion picture trailers that promote some of the biggest film franchises in Hollywood including, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel Cinematic Universe […]
The Sheffield Doc/Fest will be screening Hús (House) by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson (School of Media Arts & Design). The Sheffield International Documentary Festival is an industry event celebrating the art and business of documentary and non-fiction storytelling. K-Nelson’s film Hús was shot in both Iceland and North Dakota. Icelandic noise artist AMFJ composed an original sound score for the film. The […]
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson (School of Media Arts & Design) presented her short experimental film, Hús, at the Duluth Superior Film Festival at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 2, as part of a Regional Shorts program. K-Nelson then traveled to Minneapolis to present her film at the Altered Esthetics Film Festival showcase for Creative Vision Award nominees. The Altered Esthetics curators nominated 6 […]