Screenings at Razzo part of Mass. Independent Film Festival
The Clark University Screen Studies program will welcome its longtime community partner, the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival (MassIFF), to Razzo Hall tomorrow, April 3, for a screening of student films, beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Among the short films to be shown are those by students Bella Batts ’26, Ricky Jessurun ’27, and Zoe Slot ’28, and by alumni Angel Rojas ’25 and Zeke Fairley ’25 from the Clark Screen Studies program.
Rojas’ experimental documentary, Los Tres Antifaces: The First Body, had its world premiere at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) in Seattle last week. It tells the story of a family’s diasporic journey from Peru to the United States, exploring themes of indigenous identity and memory through the medium of television. Rojas describes the film as a “living collage” that was inspired by a visit to their parents’ hometown of Nazca, Peru, in 2024.
Fairley’s film, From the Cabin, is a timely meditation on the perils of isolation, paranoia, and the corrosive influence of technology, which leave a young man pondering a desperate act of violence. “What happens when you start believing everything you read on the internet and come to the conclusion that you are the solution to the things that are wrong with the world — that you can change it all with some big move?” Fairley (pictured above) said in a ClarkU News profile.
The April 3 screening schedule is as follows:
2:30 – 4 p.m.
- Blank Slate by Gaby Estabrooks
- Bound by Bella Abry
- Burnout by Angel Disla
- Criminal by Kevin Sheppard
- Dad’s Dad by Bella Batts ’26
- From the Cabin by Zeke Fairley ’25
- Herencia by Javier Barrios Acuna
- Los Tres Antifaces: The First Body by Angel Rojas ’25
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
- Monument by Allison Thompson
- Nor’easter by Ricky Jessurun ’27
- Scalae Sensus by Allison Thompson
- Shattered by Sydney Rene Gemme
- The Creature by Mir Brustenga
- Trapped Air: Life with No-Burp Syndrome by Tobin Cleary
- Unfortunate Preconceptions by Zoe Slot ’28
The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival will be in Worcester April 2–4.
Now in its 12th year, the MassIFF is dedicated to showcasing a wide variety of films from all genres by indie filmmakers in Massachusetts and all over the world.
