Invention of Love

Parallel Chords (overture) is the true story of a young violinist struggling to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her pianist father and the formidable weight of her own musical ability.

Carls the eldest of three brothers and is expected to be a role model for the family. He wants to show his family that he made the right choice to move away. However, youngest brother Adam's unexpected hostility reveals the problems with Carls choices.

TRY AGAIN brings us into the mind of Walt Eichner, a middle-aged failure on the verge of ending it all. However, it turns out Walt isn’t any better at ending his life than he is at living it. Each attempt to formulate his grand demise is stymied by circumstance and bad planning, leading Walt to consider that suicide isn’t the neat solution he thought it would be.

A microscopic tale of epic tragedy. One pea-sized pirate quests to slay his golden nemesis in this surrealistic, stop-motion animated retelling of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. A fully realized animation, full of conflict and tension, that makes perfect narrative sense while defying all common sense.

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Monster mayhem from Sticky Monster Lab with freedom brigades and secret spaceships.

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Short animated film by Kenjo Tada

A 3D character run through the streets with waffle shoes

The last conscious moments of Stalin, the solitary tyrant who believes himself immortal. An evocation of the mental chaos of the Little Father of the People who was suffering from delusions of persecution and untold power during the three days of his death throes. And, in fact, is he really dead? In the limbo of the Soviet past, the ghosts from the gulag dream of settling some old scores.

Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.

A streetlight that breaks and falls to the ground due to a blizzard causes a flower to bloom from the warmth of its light. In the harsh coldness of winter, a sympathetic connection is formed as they try desperately to survive.

In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.

"Unfinished animated bit I did in my spare time while working at a studio using the characters from the short "Worker and Parasite" from the Krusty the Clown sequence from The Simpsons".

A tense psychological drama.

When her bionic boyfriend Ethan proposes, Jackie finally feels like she has found her happily ever after— until a chance encounter with another human shows her how messy love can really be.

When a fatherless 12-year-old boy attempts to put an end to his abuse from his brotherly neighbor, he's later confronted by his own mother about her suspicion next door, and he must quickly decide who he's willing to protect at the end.

Stop motion animation film using clay, originally shot in 16mm for San Diego radio station 91X.

Stop motion cereal commercial parody using 16mm. Foam and clay puppet, with found objects as props. Don't you want some Raunchies Cereal?!

Two lovers meet in a place between life and death. Experimental student short film based on the poem: "Amar está en los Huesos" (Loving is in the Bones) that recounts the romance and tragedy of two strangers.