Content from Columbia University School of the Arts

21-year-old Keith Blauschild, formally trained in the culinary arts, is also a self-taught ice carver. Together with his fiancee Angela Boone, Keith sculpts intricate but impermanent artworks for catered affairs, hotels, cruise ships and for advertising promotions. In this short documentary profile, Keith is filmed as he fashions a prototype (a sword-bearing warrior fighting a dragon) for an upcoming ice carving competition. At the contest site, the young man joins scores of other chainsaw-wielding sculptors busily freeing their creations from blocks of ice. Although Keith does not win a prize, his devotion to ice-carving remains intact. Moving from his home in New Jersey to a new life in Florida, Keith is featured as the "Person of the Week" on a Florida news broadcast

A comic story of a maestro

It's a revenge scheme. It's a dessert topping! It's a revenge scheme. It's a dessert topping! Gosh darn it, it's both! Puffy, the world's most vengeful cat tries to break up its owner's marriage.

During a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, a young Wall Street investment banker and an old shoeshine man begin chatting and discussing their life philosophies.

A thief in Lvov, Poland, during the German occupation who uses his knowledge of the sewer system to help a Jewish family escape.

A boy on the verge of his first time is approached by the ghost of his old Italian grandfather who wants one more shot - at his grandson's expense.

A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.

Wall Street business executives Bowers and his assistant Lisa get stuck in an elevator where the lingo of commerce is transformed into the language of love.

A concert pianist falls in love with himself in this modern retelling of the Narcissus myth.

Boy has a scary visit to the barber

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.

Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends the afternoon at Central Park's Sailboat lake and retrieves a remote control device left behind by a pair of sailboat racers. Back in the schoolyard, Tony pretends that he has a car to go with the remote control. When another boy tries to take the control from him, it falls on the ground and a red remote-control sports car miraculously appears. The car "dances" to rap music and even brings Tony a can of soda. One day, a sinister-looking man with a briefcase steals the car and flees into the subway. Tony and his classmates pursue the thief to the Wall Street area and ask to inspect the briefcases of passing businessmen. Eluding the students, the crook hails a taxi and hurls the briefcase from the window. Next morning, Tony hears the sound of a sports car during a church service. Returning to its rightful owner, the magical car mysteriously reappears at the end of the processional.

Fiction short. Drama about a voice-over actress proficient in making noises which imitate household appliances in television advertisements. Seeking recognition as an artist she auditions for Hamlet but gives a recitation of the ‘to be or not to be’ to a roomful of household appliances which applaud her.

Deals with the efforts of Native Americans to preserve their culture in the face of that of the majority and the trials that often accompany the intersection of these two cultures.

A stand-up comic goes in a convenience store and tries to make the cashier laugh

A young man is obssessed with a goldfish

A neurotic love story about a woman obsessed with a man who doesn’t love her.

This short film encompasses a man's Summertime courtship of Anne, from love at first sight, through tumultuous romance, to the disillusionment upon discovering her terrible secret.

Shows a suburban party from the point of view of a 6-year-old.

A quirky urban parable about a faithful pigeon feeder led into temptation on his way to offer the daily bread. Well served by its cast of two off-Broadway actors and a flock of pigeons trained by the 'The Birdmen of Harlem', this low-budget B&W student film has a gritty, high contrast look, achieved by shooting and pro­cessing the film entirely on reversal stock.