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With her quaint suburban existence on the slow road to ruin, Sarah mutilates herself in the bathroom mirror while her husband sits downstairs watching TV.

An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003.

Voodoo dolls are feared and mysterious. The title character in this film short starts out with the same mystique even if, like a doll, he is strangely docile. The lawless gang he is peripherally part of engages in various acts of crime and self-abasement arranged and instigated by the leader, Pope, who implies that the real rainmaker is Voodoo Doll. Tagging along with this ragtag collection of aimless, drug-addled minions is the sardonically named, Joy, who is by default attached to one thug, Dex, but who is intrigued by Voodoo Doll. The scarecrow-like wool ski mask he wears creates most if not all the foreboding mystery until the flashbacks begin. Here we learn that Voodoo Doll is in fact the Verso-Voodoo Doll - stick a pin in him and all the horror stays and boils within. The ending can go one of two ways and it matters greatly to the overall success of what is a simple story of sadness and repressed trauma. It appears that the correct choice is made. Like the scarecrow (and the verso-voodoo doll) looks and street cred can be deceiving.

Trapped and isolated in a troubled marriage, Emilia finds a new way to get her power back and reveal her reality.

Rachael who gets her period on this particular day runs to the school bathroom. She later discovers she has no tampons. While having a brief conversation with the lady in the next stall she comes to find out it's a cross-dresser.

After a young guy decides that his life has become monotonous, he starts an internal monologue that romanticizes his own loneliness and his attachment to his fears at the south shore of Coney Island.

Examples printed by the students of the Optical Printing Workshop taking place in Spring 2015 at the Film-Makers' Cooperative in partnership with the Film Department at The New School's School of Media Studies.