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Michael Brown's birthday begins with a telephone call from his estranged, drug addicted brother Tobey. Tobey is totally unaware that it is his older brother's birthday, but he is very aware that his car is broken, and he begs Michael to drive him on various apparently legitimate,…

Taylor Mendon is a Hollywood scriptwriter on a minor rebound from drugs and booze. He's writing for a mirthless sit-com and betting on the horses behind his wife's back when her sister calls needing help: Taylor's 20-year-old niece Amanda has become a hooker in Las Vegas. He…

Imagine the same shooting star soaring over Miley, Cory, Zack and Cody. What do you think they would wish for? Wishes can be powerful, wishes can be useful, but even the best wish can go amiss.

The Norman Rockwell-esque fabric of a small town is wrinkled when a woman crosses into dangerous intrigue.

An elderly couple wander an art museum as the husband tries to jog the fading memory and mind of his dear wife. Something magical and spectacularly cosmic unfolds.

Three high school virgins, suspended from school on a bogus graffiti charge, flee to the inner city in an attempt to live out the plot of The Catcher in the Rye - a book they neither have read nor understand. BINDLESTIFFS documents their struggles along the way as they surrender…

In a surreal, comical, hyper-saturated dream world, a naive, lonely, couch-potato bumpkin falls for an infomercial beauty product with blistering results. This extremely short film plays like a silent Charlie Chaplin-esque short with a whimsical music score sans dialog. It was…

Hundreds of mushrooms form rings around unmarked graves in the old Waupaca County Poor Farm Cemetery. This is an experimental short documentary about a sculptural installation in August 2011 by artist Lily Cox-Richard (Michigan Society of Fellows and University of Michigan…

This is an extremely short film that documents the creative process of world famous artist Mark Dion in a formalistic style that then suddenly transitions to a recreation of the experience of his finished installation. It wavers in between dramatic fiction, stylized design, and…

Cinematic, short documentary portrait of the development of David Chung's art installation, Pyongyang: During a rare escorted visit to North Korea, David was always greeted to the sight of the Pyongyang statue outside of his hotel window. The Pyongyang statue is a communist…

(Warning: this description might be a spoiler for the revelatory nature of this extremely short 3 minute film) Combining both constructed, contrived imagery with secretly scavenged footage of a real medical procedure, a mysterious progression from darkness into consciousness is…

A slightly tongue in cheek mini-documentary profiling the installation 'game' by artist Chris Sperandio of Kartoon Kings while he was a guest artist in residency at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Some of the styling of the piece imitates the tone and look of…

On a historical grave site, a teenage girl with low self-esteem, a white rapper, and the ghost of a confederate soldier become entangled in a love triangle.

A disturbing grainy film of the recollection of a murder ties together a backwards movement outward as the context of exhibition keeps changing for the viewer. This is intended to create a slowly spiraling outward feeling of realization in the viewer (symbolized by the title…

Lotus is my first single-channel animation and marks an important shift in my practice. I appropriated the image of the Buddha as the representation of a wise, forgiving deity to illustrate the devolution of a pure and well-intentioned ruler into an irresponsible and corrupt…

Within a paranoid psychogenic midnight episode, a young, drunk professional stumbles out into a back alley. He flails around in anger, cursing those who have jettisoned him. He seems like a solitary scarecrow caught in a muffled desperate nightmare. His only sense of calm comes…

A double feature horror comedy that covers ghosts in a graveyard and Bigfoot to a rap star wannabe and public service announcement.

Two twenty-something couples are entwined in a gut-wrenching and sex-crazed last month in Austin, Texas. Having made plans to leave town, they all seize fleeting opportunities and reexamine their relationships.

A young human woman meets and falls in love with a man from the Realm of Faerie. They meet every year, once a year, on Midsummer's Eve. She ages as all mortals do; he doesn't.

In an underground city dominated by the cruel king Minos, the young Icarus leads a revolution. Helped by his father and three mysterious goddesses, he will have to prove ingeniosity and courage to stand for a chance to escape.