Genres: narrative

  • Critical Mass

    Shot on Super 8 and blown-up to 16mm for a dreamlike effect, “Critical Mass” is a strange, poetic vision of childhood. From its first vision sequence to its consequential conclusion, the film follows one boy’s wanderings, both internal and external, as he tries to make sense of his world. Life, death, time and place become interchangeable when he happens upon a dead crow, a barren hilltop, and a small boy who serves as a catalyst for his actions. “A low key tale of guttersnipe mysticism… ‘Critical Mass’ is heavy on mood and symbolism, with Cannizzaro drawing some beautiful compositions. What’s…

  • Muscledude 11×6

    After his initial success with on-line cruising, a newly single gay man tries to recreate the experience but finds that something is stopping him from meeting the right guy. Why do they all want to spank him, and what the hell is going on next door?

  • Ladies Room

    “Ladies Room” reveals young women in their most intimate environment – the bathroom. From sterile public schools to underground warehouse raves and glitzy hotel rooms, it takes an insightful, playful and provocative look at a group of NYC girls in a variety of situations and bathrooms. Seen through the lens of fiction, documentary and satire, the range of their experiences and emotions – straddling strength and vulnerability – defines growing up female. Special Jury Award, Arizona International Film Festival, 2004

  • Zombie Business

    Zombie business is unleashed as the “invisible hand” of voodoo economics produces disposible people. Shot in Super 8, the film evokes the silent era, while also mixing B-movie horror, experimental cinema and political satire.

  • Mad Shadows

    An unconventional psychological mystery, “Mad Shadows” unfolds into a humanistic tale about faith. When Mike, an orderly at St. Belvedere, starts suffering from hallucinations, he comes to believe that a newly admitted catatonic patient is a devine entity who must be saved.

  • The Holes Remained

    She stared out the window. The children hadn’t called for weeks. “Out of sight, out of mind…” she thought. Florence Hutton was a local newspaper advice columnist. Now she is dead and her daughters have returned to their childhood home to sort through the belongings.

  • Mercury in Retrograde

    Betsy Brick is having a bad day. On the eve of her 40th birthday, the compulsive poker player crosses the point of no return – and all debts, spiritual and earthly, demand repayment. Starring Lea De Laria as the main character.

  • Seed of a Thought

    Pearl lives a solitary life. Her time is divided between paperback romances and gardening. While weeding in her back yard, she unearths a large seed wrapped in the roots of a particularly stubborn plant. Puzzled, she takes the seed into her little house where she hopes it will sprout. What develops is a surprising story of horror, discovery and romance.

  • Man Who Loved the Bears, The

    Grady Mutzel works nine-to-five, five days a week, and gets the same bus home every day. But he doesn’t take his work home with him. Instead, Grady develops an affection for bears which becomes his obsession. He organizes candy treats in order to feed the bears at the zoo, because “we all need a treat every once in a while.”

  • Abendmahl (Last Supper)

    Nice Karl-Heinz and his good-looking lover David live together in Karl-Heinz’ apartment. David is many things but faithful, which he at one point promised to be, is a thing of the past. One day Karl-Heinz surprises David in the middle of an orgy. Frantic with anger, he plans his shrewd revenge. He cooks an elaborate dinner which David misunderstands as a conciliatory gesture, until Karl-Heinz’ clever plan unfolds…