Alex Wong and Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students take part in the Boston Festival
An animated film made by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Alex Wong and a team of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students has been accepted to the Boston International Film Festival.
"AlieNation - Radio Boy" was made by FASS Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students Alicem Batmansuyu, Arda İnceoğlu, Ayşe Aydoğan, Defne Kayserilioğlu, Gülşah Cansever, Muhammed Muvaffak Onus, Meha Shahid, Pelin Doğrul and Pelin Maravent, and was directed by their professor Alex Wong.
The festival will be held between March 9th and 12th, featuring 28 independent films from the US to Israel, China, Palestine, and the Philippines. Alex Wong and his students' film "AlieNation - Radio Boy" will be screened on March 10. In addition to Radio Boy, there are three competitors in the animated film category from the US, New Zealand and Cyprus. Seeking to draw attention to the work of filmmakers around the world, the Boston International Film Festival's motto is "the lens of a filmmaker is the best witness to the state of humanity."
Synopsis:
AlieNation is a short film depicting radical and absurd relationship between different form of beings in a distance planet. Nevertheless, being bullied and cast off for being different happens in every corner of the world...even in far-far away planets in the galaxy. Alienation attitude is intolerable as we condemn it as an improper and bigoted conduct. Try to imagine yourself being such different in physical appearance that the sight of you makes everyone around you cringe, ignore and make fun of you. This is the tragic case of Radio boy.
Radio boy is a strange, mechanical creature created into an alien world far away from Earth. This planet and its inhabitants, the AlieNation, are bizarre fictional creatures. They are composed of organic and peculiar forms, like a pair of lungs with feet, or a creature with a huge tongue as his face. To these creatures, the mechanic form of the Radio boy is completely alien. After Radio boy is created as the result of an accident in the factory, Radio boy finds himself hard to fit into the world of the AlieNation. After a series of unfortunate events, Radio boy discovers his one ability that truly amazes everyone around him is his power to receive and play music in a planet that is without melody. Nonetheless everything return to the original state once Radio boy loses his ability.
Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5vqUoEDVw