A Message from Fallujah (2005)

Unchoosing Yourself

Presenting a short film I made during a 24-hour filmmaking challenge at my university. The theme was "Unchosen Dream," and we had a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

Without Transition

The road can be long when allowing yourself to love again. Shy and self-effacing Léo leads a solitary existence, but an encounter with the confident Thom turns his world upside down.

Doodlebug

There's something in his apartment. A man looking for an insect-like thing devolves into a bout of insanity as his subconscious mind begins to strangle his waking one.

The Curtain Closes

During a robbery attempt at the local cinema-plex in 1977, Shawn Davis reflects on the last three years of his life. Movies, cars, girls, college, drugs and personal life-changing decisions.

The End of My World

Filip tries to reconcile himself with his new life after his long-term boyfriend broke up with him.

Deer Boy

A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.

Hair Wolf

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Apollo

Apollon is a teenager hung up by the social ideals of masculinity. He fantasizes about having the perfect body - complete with big beefy muscles and a big banana.

Under Milk Wood

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

The Long Walk

An animated short based on a scene from "The Long Walk" by Stephen King

Awaiting

A young woman named Yeon-hee is traveling to Pyongyang with a coach full of elderly people. As she flips through old photographs, she remembers telling her husband Min-woo that she wouldn't allow him to "cross over" to North Korea given the political situation of the day. But Min-woo left anyway and never returned home, and their marriage was torn apart by the Korean War. Now, sixty years after the division of Korea, she looks forward to reuniting with her beloved Min-woo again.

Dread in the Night

The evening of a summer day is replaced with the strange happenings and atmosphere of night.

They Came from the Attic

A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.

Turkish Gothic: Portrait of a Family

An upper-class family who wants to have a picture of their family made meet with a famous painter. In this process, the painter, who witnessed the inner dynamics of the family, helps these people to face their own reality through painting.

Message from Jerusalem

Made exclusively for the Hail to the King Tribute Show at Finder Creepers in Des Moines, Iowa. A surreal and non linear adaptation of the short story "Jerusalem's Lot". It was shown for exactly one month from January 22nd, 2011 to February 22nd, 2011.

Dilution

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

Suspendu

At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain. But it's exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.

Self Portrait

In the process of taking off her make-up, a young woman reveals her true face.

Hello Yesterday

A young professional gets so caught up in her 'life' that she loses perspective on the things that truly matter.

Chicken

Mick and Kev, teen Irish lads, are at the shore, throwing rocks at empty cans, drinking cider. Mick's the pushy one, engaging Kev in a game of mumbly peg, his hand on top of Kev's, fingers splayed. As Mick moves the knife between their fingers, a train is heard approaching. What's Mick's purpose?

Mustard

Eilis is addicted to mustard. When she falls madly in love, she's sure her demons are finally banished, but when the relationship breaks down her shameful addiction to the yellow stuff returns with a vengeance.

Tripofobia

A countdown begins as dark sands of an hourglass fall. Two men in separate, dimly lit rooms are haunted by disturbing visions. A mysterious creature will soon join them.

Plus. Minus.

Told in reverse chronological order, an aspiring drag queen creates a world out of desolated motel rooms with the guy he met online.

Flesh of God

The 17th century. Somewhere in the Mexican mountains, a Catholic friar who has fallen victim to a strange disease is carried by his native disciple to the home of an indigenous healer. The old woman will try to cure him by performing an ancient ritual that will have unexpected effects in the body and mind of the evangelist.

The Demons Beneath

"Les Démons" tells a rather familiar story of a young French man named Franc, who finds an ancient relic in a box hidden away in a cellar. It is soon learned that anyone who touches this relic will become possessed by a demonic entity, and Franc spends the film attempting to fight off this deadly deity.

Homework

A young father, his twelve-year-old daughter, a night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve everything.

Dirty

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.

Lance (in a Neck Brace)

After a devastating breakup, Lance listens to instructional cassette tapes on how to heal his broken heart.

Little Chief

The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.

Pillars

After seeing a boy she likes before church, Amber sneaks out to the Sunday school bathroom during the service and is given her first kiss.

T

A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.

Three Deaths

Three strangers confront death in a modern interpretation of a Tolstoy short story.

Benevolent Ba

A devout woman's lust for virtue thrusts her family into a sacrificial slaughter of biblical proportions.

Regret

Following the death of his father, a man must survive the manifestations of his inner demons over the course of a dreary night.

So What If the Goats Die

Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.

A Thousand Sails

In a traditional fishing village where most youngsters have left to work in the city, the older generations are left behind. Ren, a widow who lives in the village helps her neighbour, Mrs Wah, to deliver a gift to her son, Chung in the city. Ren finds out that Chung is leading a harsh life. Back in the village, there is no one with whom she can share this secret. The only refuge from the sleepless night is her deceased husband. A Thousand Sails is a short tale about the poignant separation between city and village, mother and son, life and death. With long shots and sophisticated art direction, Eric Tsang Hing-weng compellingly captures the actors’ performances, especially that of Professor Chow Po-chung’s surprising debut.

Bread for the Birds

Like Max Ophüls, Capellani set many films in the theatre – backstage, on stage, in the public eye; Here is a rags-to-riches story of a dancer and her older benefactor, a kind-hearted piano tutor.

The Sun Is God

1918 - A woman imagines her lover has returned from the horrors of war in France, remembering moments shared together. A tale of love and loss told through classical ballet.