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About
I am passionate about all aspects of media production including film, animation, and new forms of storytelling. With a wide range of interests in the arts, I’m always eager to learn new things and promote collaboration. My heart lies in capturing the essence of life, and I am driven to share it through my photography and narratives. In my works, I aspire to promote person-to-person connection and highlight the beauty of life within a technology driven future.As an undergraduate at New York University, I am experimenting with creative coding and enhancing my storytelling through interactive and non-linear forms.Feel free to reach out for collabs, photography, or any other questions!kyrareilley@gmail.com
Interactive Storytelling
My adaption of the Red Thread of Fate folklore is an animated, interactive story that immerses the users into connecting with each other through their experience of reaching the end of the tale. By having two plays press buttons that slowly get closer, they represent the characters that also get gradually closer to each other, finding that love is based on choice rather than fate.
As an adaptation of Octavia Butler's Bloodchild, this interactive prose story explores new structures in storytelling, while spiraling around truths of love in Butler's created world of Bloodchild. We can understand how love plays a bigger part through many different aspects of our lives and at its core holds us together to those around us.
All Roads is a choose your own adventure game, exploring the concept of fate versus free will. While given the illusion of choice, All Roads reveals how our world is crafted so that the most ethical option is often a luxury, not a choice.
Film & Animation
Everything, Cervantes is an intimate portrait documentary of an in-home childcare.
Under the stars, pieces of reality are connected and ever flowing.
"Blindside" music video for The Swell
Best Music Video Nominee for All American High School Film Festival (2023)
A young boy with an immersive mind dreams of the day he can go to space, while his mother learns to open her eyes to his world of imagination. Created for the 2023 MiniCine Film Festival, which required us to complete it in 48 hours.
A woman taking care of her elderly father looks back upon their memories, struggling to decide whether or not to keep taking care of him alone.
"Slam Song" music video for The Swell
Photography
Little Island, New York
Freaky Friday Concert in Washington Square Park
San Diego County Fair
Full Sunshine
Moonlight Beach, San Diego
Diana Cervantes' In-Home Childcare
Del Mar Beach, San Diego
Canyon Crest Academy's Productions of Puffs, RENT, The Lightning Thief, and Chasing Fear
Design
Zines
Featuring the bands Babe City, Blush Boy, and Sample Size, I made a mini zine out of the Freaky Friday concert in Washington Square Park. This zine was dedicated to experimenting with combining my own photos with different textures, colors, and styles.
Using Illustrator for my class Typography and Technology, our project was to trace letterforms and print them out in a zine that additionally unfolds into a poster. My zine reads "find joy" with a smile, a continuation of my Words of Love project.
Journal Spreads
Words of Love Project
