Esconde-Esconde

The director offers a rare glimpse of the actor and fashion muse Chloë Sevigny in the late 90s when she as an emerging ingénue. Shot on 16mm black and white, Sevigny plays air guitar and dress-up in a film that beautifully captures the spirit of the time.

A young woman uses a strange telephone service to leave messages for her departed brother.

In 1960s Nagaland, a proud Konyak chief struggles to protect his dying traditions when an American missionary arrives with promises of aid that threaten his people’s identity. As his wife’s health deteriorates and famine looms, he and his mute son must make an impossible choice between survival and staying true to their ancestral ways.

A dancer falls. Can she get back up?

Short film based on Stephen King's short story 'All That You Love Will be Carried Away'.

When a cinephilic line cook, Hogan, meets Sierra, the girl of his dreams, he must navigate his past trauma and deal with the truth behind his father’s absence.

A short film shot on 16mm about memory, grieving, and siblinghood.

Time-traveling anthropologists document the heartbreak of an aspiring entrepreneur in Los Angeles. In ir/reverent homage to mid-20th century documentary films, this fictional documentary turns a comically “objective” lens on the shadows of trauma lurking behind American masculinity.

A compilation of non-narrative, mischievous, fictional tableaux vivants featuring two young women on a dreamlike, summer-like quest for self-discovery, written in the glittery language of music videos, fashion shoots, and meandering streams of consciousness, set to a nostalgic mood track that evokes universal, bittersweet sentiments.

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.

Jack's life (and kitchen) is turned upside down when his fridge begins to talk to him.

On October 25 1984, an afternoon for three girls takes a thrilling and rather mystical turn after following a peculiar boy into the surrounding forest of their college town.

La otra muerte

Images from 2000s music videos are transferred onto the film strip, torn and abstracted until the visuals convulse and shift—a tactile, poetic exploration of materiality, memory, and medium.

A reject teenager follows a stranger to the woods, in this ecologically-focused, queer spin of a classic tale.

DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.

In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.

Knucklebones follows the course of hysterical outburst to instances of alienation and isolation. From a 1903 newspaper, "While fifteen hundred persons looked on in breathless excitement, an electric bolt sent the man-killing elephant staggering to the ground. With her own life, she paid for the lives of the three men she had killed." The film combines archival with Super8 and 16mm original footage and intertext in an experiential exploration of gender, sexuality and identity. Featuring Katherine Crockett, prior to becoming a Martha Graham Dance Company soloist. "A haunting evocation of the body under stress."-Kathy Geritz, Pacific Film Archive

Sunlight in a winter forest.

A golden sunrise brings light to the foggy hills and meadows of late summer.