3,000 Miles

To the accompaniment of voicemail messages from his mother, filmmaker Sean Wang documents a year of living in New York City, far away from home. Deftly blending still photos with the sights and sounds of slice-of-life clips, syncopated by the steady backbeat of the maternal phone recordings, Wang confers a highly personal feel to his short piece while also evoking universal sentiments of the excitement and freedom of new adventures in a new possibility-rich environment.