SAFAII
CREATIIVE
PORTFOLIO
MY STORY
I blame filmmaking for the reason why I've become so compulsively obsessed with my crafts. Why is my mother tearing up over watching Mrs. Doubtfire? Is there a reason for checking my blinds after watching Exorcist? Why do I always get chills down my spine when Luke Skywalker pulls out his lightsaber? It was these questions that had created such an immense interest.
From there I knew it had something to do with the writing. So at the age of fifteen years old and two hundred pages in, I attempted to write my first novel. Realizing just how trash it was, I had lost it years ago.
But I didn't stop there.
From that point, I wanted to learn how they put the movies together, so I began learning how to edit with the easiest way I could possibly access footage: Playing video games and re-scripting them to make them comedic. I had done this for a while until I turned eighteen from there I went to college with the goal of taking any course I possibly could that would help me solidify my knowledge of filmmaking. I had taken nearly every literature course at Edmonds College and graduated with my associate. From that point I transferred to the University of Washington with a new goal: To learn every possible aspect of production I could.
During my time at the University of Washington, I was part of a total of 3 professional productions. It doesn't sound like a lot because it wasn't. Unfortunately due to the school's lack of art department, I was forced to turn to something else. It was at this point I invested my time into creating something very, very special: The truest form of horror non-fiction; My series titled Existence in Silence where I travel around the country documenting and vlogging torturously dangerous locations all conspiratorially, spiritually, and physically. It was this series that gave me new knowledge about production: videography, photography, producing, directing, researching, media identifying, and helped solidify the concept of who Anthony Safai was.
I am not an artist, I am Safaii Creatiive.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Degree in Media and Communications
"The Media & Communication Studies (MCS) major at the University of Washington Bothell offers students the opportunity to think critically about access, use, and control of communication and media on the local, national, and global level. The major combines hands-on production with a rich grounding in media and communication theory and history that focuses on power, difference, and injustice." (University of Washington's Definition)
Degree in Culture, Literature, and Arts
"Students in the major study written and visual texts, interactive and performative modes of practice, and philosophical and theoretical accounts of those texts and practices. Students gain an understanding of the complex relations among lived, represented, and speculated existence. CLA courses focus on the historical, social, and aesthetic dimensions of arts and culture, with special attention to the intersections among gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, disability, and other vectors of power and privilege." (University of Washington's Definition)
