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Worldbuilding Professional Portfolio

Direction

Here you find an abbreviated collection of short films and media pieces directed or co-directed by Laura Cechanowicz. Please see resume for full list.

"Bernie + Bernice,"
Interactive Installation utilizing Kinect and Touch Designer, 2015
Co-Directed with Lemi B. Nessa
This interactive experience is designed around flow to encourage movement and visualize force. Exploring wonder, it seeks to provoke an investigation of the invisible particles in our lives.

"Rollover," 2014
Short Film

"Exceptional Minds," 2013
Short Film

"Glass Heart," 2012
Co-Director

"Paint Punches," 2012
Co-Director, Interactive Kinect Installation featuring animated paint with a punching action from the viewer, a moving, interactive painting.

"Silent Secrets: The Body Language of the Confessor," 2009-ongoing
Last shown as an 11-projector installation in the USC Gallery. This collaborative documentary database involves recording body language and nonverbal communication as a historic artifact on video.

"A Letter to You," 2011
Projection mapping mixed media installation exploring the filmmaker's memory of her grandmother and the process of healing.

"They Had Horses," 2009
An animated documentary reflecting the Iowa flood of 2008.

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This video presents documentation of my installation "A Letter to You," as well as the full footage of the installation - which is a loop. This is an autobiographical installation investigating my memory of my grandma before she died from cancer. It explores the intense pain and beauty of life and death, including the process of healing through immersive experience in water and sound. The piece was initially designed to fit the architecture of the original installation space, but as it is shown in other spaces, I am interested in seeing it develop in the context of other architectural elements. It can now create arches, opening doors of possibility, where there once stood walls.