“Requiem,” the movie that won Best Drama at the University’s Campus MovieFest was speechless. And that is how the very abstract, fully-animated film set to Chopin’s famous Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major left many of those in attendance Tuesday night.

The creators, University juniors, Adrian Cox, a painting major from Conyers, and Kyle Seaquist, a telecommunication arts major from Powder Springs, said they wanted to make a film confronting the notion of life after death and the concept of time.

“The basic idea is that the main character has recently died and is guided through the after-life … he starts encountering statues of people he met while he was alive,” Cox said. “He starts to panic when he begins to see statues he doesn’t recognize. He is looking at a memory he could have had but didn’t. It’s less about missed opportunity and more just about the way things happened.”

Cox, who painted the background and characters for the film before scanning them into Adobe After Effects, said he began designing the set over break but couldn’t begin editing until the week of CMF.

“It was all on a bunch of pieces of paper strewn all over my room until CMF started,” he said. “It took four to five days of really intense work after we started filming.”

This was Cox and Seaquist’s third year participating in CMF and their first win.

The top movies from the University are chosen to showcase at the campus finale. No one knows, however, which movies are chosen until it shows up on the big screen the night of the show.

Seaquist said they wanted to do something that was different from everyone else. Even if the meaning was unclear, it was important that it spoke to people emotionally on some level.

Audience members shouted out praise as Cox and Seaquist accepted their awards on stage. The guys won Final Cut Studio 2 and two iPod shuffles. Finale winners will go on to the Southern Regional Grand Finale on March 28-29 at the Atlanta Symphony Hall.