Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos

This Museum of the Moving Image exhibit explores the late 1980s and 1990s, and how skateboard teams harnessed inexpensive, widely accessible video equipment to record and share limit-pushing tricks performed on stairs, benches, and other skate-able elements of public architecture.


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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Nakenaghch’ sutdu’a

Nakenaghch’ sutdu’a “Our traditional legacy, stories of our history” is an exhibition curated by the Alaska Native Heritage Center. The exhibit features a virual reality experience that highlights the subsistence practices of the Dena’ina people of Dgheyey kaq’, or what is now known as Anchorage.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Thank you, mom

In "Thank you, mom" a narrative short film, the audience peers into the life story of a woman through a series of journal entries. Each entry captures a pivotal moment, as she grows up in the wake of her father's death and her mother's effort to rebuild their lives. As she navigates the emotional landscape of grief, abandonment, and admission, her words come to life and create scenes shaped by both sorrow and hope. From the innocence of childhood to the complexities of adulthood, the film poignantly explores themes of family trauma and self-healing.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Reimagined Volume III: Young Thang

Concealed within a flat world of insects where humans are forbidden, a young girl, Young Thang, must embrace her full self to save The Community she loves from a storm of her own creation.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Kapwa

Kapwa is not only a visceral representation of our struggle to understand what is truly Filipino culture but also a demonstration of the inquiry itself.

The installation uses generative AI to imagine elements of culture and history that are missing. Kapwa shows us images that feel familiar, but are ultimately false: prosthetic versions of irretrievable lost artifacts.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Reimagined Volume II: Mahal

In the wake of their all-powerful father's demise, four sibling deities must confront their underlying grief in order to save the earth and each other from a peril caused by their own anger.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Reimagined Volume I: Nyssa

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm folktale, the story follows Nyssa, a fearless yet naive young witch who leaves her whimsical village in order to find her best friend, a toy broom named...Broom.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Reimagined: A VR Animation Series

Welcome to Reimagined!  A Webby and Peabody nominated female led; written, directed, and produced VR animated anthology series in partnership with Meta.

As a Producer’s Guild of Innovation Award finalist, this series is hand drawn and animated in VR using Quill by Smoothstep. Reimagined introduces audiences to a new variety of storybook by showcasing lesser-known fables, mythology, and folklore in a gender-inclusive experience.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Lutaw

Step into Geramy’s world, a scrappy, budding inventor, who is trying to find a better way to commute to school.

Based in the Philippines, this story highlights the students that swim between the small islands in order to travel to the nearest elementary or high schools in their remote areas.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Face to Face

A shotgun blast took away Michelle’s eyes, nose, and upper palate, leaving her permanently blind and unable to smell. This inspiring woman wears a bandana around her home and a specially made facial prosthesis when she goes out and about.  

Michelle is raising two daughters as a single mother. We wanted the audience to become a guest in Michelle’s home as an intimate and human way to learn about her story.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Capturing Everest

Capturing Everest premiered in May 2017 on the LIFE VR app, on an SI.com "Capturing Everest" microsite, and on the first augmented reality cover and article of Sports Illustrated’s print magazine. This was no ordinary Everest expedition. 

The four episodes follow the harrowing journey of climbers Jeff Glasbrenner, who became the first American amputee to summit Everest on this expedition; breast cancer survivor Lisa Thompson; and Brent Bishop, son of legendary climber Barry Bishop. 

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