Film Categories: comedy

  • Rude Roll

    How-to-dance-ska in one easy lesson or three. Best Animation, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2003

  • Deadpan

    Described as “the jauntiest meat-is-murder movie ever made” and “irrational,” “Deadpan” deals with dinner-table angst from the fifties. Laughter is forbidden. Anxiety reigns. Cow tongue is served. What to do? Awards: Funniest Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2002; Jutra Nominee, Best Animation, 2001

  • All the Great Operas (in 10 Minutes)

    Using Monty-Pythonesque animation, this film serves up the stripped-down essence of the most famous operas in a quick and painless manner, and reveals once and for all that opera has more in common with soap opera and pulp fiction than anyone likes to admit.

  • Fifty Feet that Shook the World

    This stop-motion homage to the silent, Russian classics takes a twisted look at the on-going war between film and video (imagine Jan Svankmajer remaking Potemkin!). Originally made for LA Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (one roll of Super 8 film, edited in camera, sound created without seeing the footage). Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival 2004, Best Animation; Athens Independent Film Festival 2004, 2nd Place Animation; Humboldt Film Festival 2004, Honorable Mention

  • Gulliver’s Travels

    Held hostage by her dolls, a girl is forced into a showdown between good and evil in this offbeat stop-motion film. Originally made for LA Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (one roll of Super 8 film, edited in camera, sound created without seeing the footage).

  • 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?

  • 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…