We are thrilled to invite you to participate in our annual Nonesuch Film Challenge! Create a film based on select songs and poems by CCS students and faculty, and showcase your creativity. Collaborate with peers and faculty, challenge yourself, and make an unforgettable film. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to unleash your artistic talent. We can't wait to see what you create!

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The Film Challenge Rules

• Write and film a music video for a song or poem (listed below) 
• Video must be between 1-5 minutes
• Can be animated or filmed 
• Upload your film to Youtube or Vimeo and submit through our Submissions Page→‍
• Submit by April 21, 2023

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List of possible works:

Songs: Any from this playlist

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A Puzzle That Doesn’t Fit

By Isabelle Schremp

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Compare

Compare

Comparing is all I can do

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Taking pieces of others

Their looks

Their heart

Their wisdom

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I try to replace theirs for mine

For I cannot compete with theirs

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Scrolling through the never ending cycle

I add to my insecurities like making a grocery list

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I have become a puzzle that doesn’t fit

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Jesus, My Peace

By Ella Green

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Help me to trust You

And make the fog of worry clear

Help me to be still and know You are near

Help me feel peace when I am without it

Guide me on my journey bit by bit

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Help me to know You’re there when I feel alone

So that Your Love and Light would be through me shone

Renew my strength when I am weak

So I may reach the glorious peak

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Where Heaven will shine

And there will be joy divine

And worry no more 

When I reach the wonderful shore

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There with You, I will remain

Forever with You Jesus, no more pain

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Your mercies never cease

You are my Peace‍

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God’s Little Craft

By Jacob Davick

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The year is far from now

And the world has gone far

Astronauts are common

I can join them where they are

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I go up in a ship

The journey is long

We go far far away

I become the new Armstrong

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My shuttle stops

We have arrived 

The window opens

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As my body floats weightless

To the window I fly

I see God’s little craft

And all I can do is cry

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It would be much less like a cry

A lot More like a sob

While pain can't make me cry

God makes my heart throb

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I don’t bother to cry at pain

Or the stress in my life

But I think I’ll cry one day

When I marry my wife

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Maybe it’s because

Life is full of depression

So I can save my tears

For glimpses of heaven

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Tiny Dancer  

By Mac Kropff 

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Atop a shelf she lay

She dare not make a sound

For if she makes a peep

Her life comes crashing down

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A tiny ballet dancer

A perfectionist in her art

She dances without flaw

Lives, yet without a heart

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If only I could be so flawless

If I could never fail

Life would be scores easier

For I would burn a trail

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An clumsy dancer I would be

One that would never do right

Never will I be Perfect

So I shall put up a fight

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For I am not fit for a shelf

Nor will I conform

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Submit by April 21, 2023

Upload your film to Youtube or Vimeo and submit through our Submissions Page→

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