Genres: narrative

  • The Age of Insecurity: Bed Buds

    After a night out, two buds talk where they’re most comfortable – in bed.

  • Eyelash Wars

    Eyelash Wars is a melodramatic, expanded fiction about the rivalry between two female entrepreneurs who battle for supremacy in the false eyelash business. They compete by putting on elaborate, bizarro window displays that in time, escalate in scale and symbolism. Townspeople come and go, playing bit parts in this haunting and surreal world. In addition to screening as a single-channel film, Eyelash Wars can be presented in conjunction with installation and performance components that extend the story beyond the boundaries of the screen.

  • Talking to my Mother

    Talking to my Mother is a 17 minute film about love, acceptance, and missed opportunities. It tells the story of a young man trapped in a culture clash where traditions stunt his quest for personal happiness. The film explores the complicated relationships between Michael, a second generation Chinese American man, his mother, Mrs. Yue and Julianne, his girlfriend of two years, to whom he plans to propose. After a twist of fate, Julianne accidentally discovers Michael’s secret. One that would change their lives forever. Will Michael be able to face the truth with his loved ones – and most importantly,…

  • Evelyn, Be My Valentine

    The filmic equivalent of a comic strip, this is the old “Boy Meets Girl” story told in a novel way. His dead-pan voice-over contrasts with her “word balloons,” and with the images on screen. A witty depiction of the inevitable demise of a relationship.

  • In Passing

    A short lesbian art erotic film about a chance encounter between two women, complete strangers to each other, in the city of Belgrade. An impulsive attraction between them is driven by a strong sensual connection and the story of pursuit builds up quickly in one afternoon and enchanting night. Free of dialogue and with an original musical score, this short film can be likened to a fantasy or dream.

  • A MOOR

    A MOOR – (or a “room” inverted) synthesizes the multiple meanings of securing, uncultivated land, and an ethnic population in its portraits of Caucasian sex tourists who blur into one another through the POV of an unheard and unseen Asian escort. The dynamics of power and race revealed through the clients’ speech and not allowing the Asian character that forms the core of the film to be seen or heard.

  • BLISSED

    The unspoken issue of LGBT domestic violence becomes an allegory for LGBT racial dynamics. Drawing inspiration from the claustrophobic tensions of Tennessee Williams, it distills the undertones between classes in society, the plight of immigrants in Canada, the double-edge of charity, and the transference of violence from people’s fetish and fear.

  • IN DIFFERENCE

    A conversation between a young banker with an older homeless man traverses a downtown meridian surrounded by commercial buildings, populated by homeless people at night. Drawing inspiration from Samuel Beckett and Dialogues of Plato, IN DIFFERENCE fuses Man with Myth and Metaphor to comment on the veneer and prejudices of contemporary society.

  • CONTENTUS

    CONTENTUS takes its cue from the meanings of the (latin) word – to strain with exertion, to hold together; in which three parallel stories intersect in a contemporary allegory of labor, loneliness, prejudice, power and place. Connected by isolation, everyday cruelties and unheard stories, the underrepresented characters straddle the metaphoric and the real. An unseen Asian escort’s clientele of Caucasian sex tourists blur into one another, domestic tensions and violence of a professional man and his young live-in immigrant lover, and an encounter between a young banker and his older homeless doppelgänger in a city meridian populated by High Finance…

  • Doom

    Doom is a slapstick caper of a kidnapping turned on its head; a farcical take on Stockholm Syndrome. A group of businessmen and bankers are corralled from the streets of their work for the purpose of detention, observation and ultimate indoctrination by a group of unlikely bandits. Their captivity initially frightens them but through the treatment by their strange yet benevolent captors, the men quickly view their corporate transgressions with disdain as they reject the freedom they are eventually offered.