Genres: short

  • Life and the Art of Lying

    Charlie, a bubbly queer artist, heads into a new year surrounded by her closest friends. But her plans for carefree fun are dashed when she is suddenly confronted with a health crisis. Not wanting to burden those she loves with her news, Charlie lies repeatedly to cover up the severity of her situation. With no easy cures at hand, Charlie turns to her medical doctor, Dr. Simone, and chooses to secretly pursue a renegade solution for her illness. As Charlie’s feelings for her best friend Mara grow stronger, the two women are both forced to confront the painful truths they…

  • A Year

    An examination of the natural textures of the world and their changes over the course of one year.

  • Amateur Dramatics

    Two competing actors find truth in pretending.

  • When I See You

    Tired of putting her girlfriend ahead of her stifled dance career, Kira accepts an opportunity to be a featured dancer in New York City. But when her zealous girlfriend, Bea, unexpectedly opposes the change, Kira must hastily choose between her relationship or her career. Resentment and loyalty collide as Kira and Bea discover what they’re willing to sacrifice for their careers and not for each other.

  • Platform

    A hand-drawn meditation composed with charcoal on paper documented on 16mm film. “Platform” explores train metaphors: “wrong side of the track;” “end of the line;” “fast track;” “bound for Glory;” etc. The Platform in the New York City Subway provides the architecture for this imaginary contemplation of the word “platform.” Be it a set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate; a programmable infrastructure upon which software can be built; an architecture from which to speak or act; a political stage; or simply a place to board the train.

  • Cross Examination

    A short film by Lori Hiris about the Clarence A. Thomas-Anita F. Hill hearings. The camera remains fixed on the eyes of a black woman who occasionally sheds tears while portions of testimony from the hearings are heard. A statement about feminism and race accompanies the closing titles.

  • Killarney, August 11th, 2018, Scattered Showers

    “Killarney, August 11th, 2018, Scattered Showers” is a slow-moving painting depicting the passage of time in a timeless place through twelve split-screens, each corresponding to a different time of the day.

  • Beaver Lake, August 25th, 2018, Ciel Variable

    “Beaver Lake, August 25th, 2018, Ciel Variable” reimagines the length of a day in three screens, corresponding to Morning, Afternoon and Night, that are slowly revealed through zoom outs that travel from abstraction and slow motion to an ever-faster, ever-more-complicated panorama unveiling all the hours of a day.

  • How To Stop Watching a Video That Never Ends

    An abstract inquiry into the subconsciousness of an individual overloaded with the endless amount of options, possibilities and opinions of the world of digital media. Three linearly connected monologues are imitating a timeline as we know it from social media, posing a question about the possibilities of deep contemplation in the time of instant answers and ubiquitous power play of server-made content.

  • How Long?

    A strange series of events have propelled the world into an uncertain, looming future. A young woman wakes to find her partner pacing in the rain, wracked with anxiety over an unidentified yet seemingly inevitable disaster. She tries to comfort her partner amid her own escalating fear — and a cataclysmic change may be closer than either of them had imagined.