Bren Maria
Vienrich-Felling
FILMMAKER, EDUCATOR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
An inquiry into agricultural traditions, nomenclature and inherited social structures. Through interviews, personal reflections and archival material, we examine the history of farming culture, questioning if and how farming identities have changed over time.
A boy waits for his father’s return from a space mission. Meanwhile, a sect of secluded women with ritualized systems of order lead to extreme methods for survival.
7 min
Kodak EXR Film
& Found Footage
In a remote landscape, a daughter observes the tension, humor and loss that characterize her mother’s relationship with the home that has defined her.
Planted across suburban America as a symbol of ornamental beauty, the Bradford pear tree stands as a controversial relic. Through a mix of interviews, stop-motion and direct animation, the tangled legacy of this once-beloved tree species unfolds.
Challenging conventional definitions of life, the film reflects on plant communication and the belief that plants can perceive and respond to human expression.
6 min
Digital
Found Footage
Digital
Found Footage
An experimental observation of a family meal that reveals the uneasy relationship between care, consumption, and the animals we choose not to see.
4 min
Kodak EXR Film
Video produced for Duke Arts featuring backstage interviews and promotional documentation of the performance Ocean Filibuster. The piece captures performers’ reflections on their engagement with the experimental production prior to taking the stage.
1 min
Digital
Screenprints inspired by barn quilt patterns of Western North Carolina. Color and symbolism re-envision what a homestead flag could look like for a hybrid identity.
Printmaking
Web application developed in collaboration with NC State University. The responsive platform presents audio examples of Spanish dialects spoken by native speakers, including students, faculty, and staff at NCSU, supporting cultural literacy and language learning through exposure to linguistic variation across Spanish-speaking communities.
UI/ UX
Designer/ Illustrator
Website App
An adopted ten-year-old boy climbs to the top of an oak tree in hopes of catching his unborn baby brother as he falls from outer space. Blending elements of fiction and childhood imagination, the film explores themes of family, belonging and the boundary between the tangible and the cosmic.
Series developed for Goodwill of Eastern NC’s online learning YouTube channel. Animations focus on educational content on career development and contemporary technological topics, including explanations of artificial intelligence, learning strategies, and work-life considerations.
Analog and digital photographs documenting how displacement, nostalgia and cultural hybridity have influenced perceptions of the places that have become all too familiar in the American South.
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