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Noite de Lamentações (Night of Wails)

Grappling with the burden of loss, a drifter becomes engulfed in the reckless lifestyle of a group of bohemians. Through a series of events, he is forced to confront his trauma as his haunted past and unconventional present collide.

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering.

"After chasing sunsets, one of life's simple joys is playing with the boys." - Kenneth Clark Loggins

Ulterran is a short visual experimentation that follows two women through a pagan ritual to connect to the versions of themselves that exist in another spiritual dimension.

Ravaged by a debilitating illness, the Toxic Man sets out to stop the cabal of scientists and bureaucrats responsible for his metamorphosis in a surreal stab at vengeance.

After Charlie takes an unknown psychotropic drug, she and her secret lover are transported to a strangely sinister paradise.

To prevent himself from going insane in isolation, a young filmmaker conjures up an idea about a demented experimental director who tries to convince his harshest critic to enjoy his work.

A young man experiences his last few minutes of singular consciousness while examining a wild falcon he has studied for months.

“…a series of ellipses linked by a restless camera in search of diverse characters who appear not only as outsiders but as refugees from other films, from other constructs! An experimental musical/thriller. The body of the film is set in “Europe” and consists of a number of isolated passages using a variety of cast, locations and languages.” (from: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6d993b6a)

The image pans slowly around a coastal moor, a neighborhood of silent villas and empty streets, a forest path in fading summer light. There are no witnesses to tell the stories of how it all ended. All manifestations of human activity have ceased, giving way to the crackling and bustling of nature. In this world, which at first seems only to reflect a recent emptying, black things move about, as if dying echoes of a cataclysm too terrifying to narrate.

Ion is a seemingly normal guy whose life goes by without a hitch. A phone call; a meeting with a friend; small, unimportant everyday situations. One day he gets into a car with two other people. They cross the border between Spain and France. The next morning, their lives will change forever.

A gang of women wreak havoc in the city, killing various men who have treated women poorly. And sometimes they do it just for fun.

In the future, a second great flood covers most of the known world. Country borders collapse and language barrier disappear. All salvageable books are taken to a deep underground vault facility for protection. Run by priests, the facility is called The Stacks. As Olivia wanders the facility she discovers that she may not be alone and that a dark part of her past may have followed her into the narrow corridors of this inescapable purgatory.

A Los Angeles detective discovers the unbelievable while searching for a missing child and in the aftermath his life begins to unravel.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Seeking fulfillment, a young drifter forgoes isolation to embark on a year-long murder spree.

Created for the LA Guild of Puppetry's 48hr Puppet Film Project 2021, A Game of Fate is a short puppetry film that utilizes the project's theme (gratitude), object (wood), and action (laugh) to show the unique challenge Ernest faces and the game he must play to keep his life with the help of an unexpected ally.

When the strongest earthquake in a century hit Mexico in 2017, everyone had eyes on the rescue of 12-year old Frida - until the story took a very strange twist.

Beneath towering Brutalist architecture, a man is driven to do what must be done.