Directing
Robert Machoian is an Armenian-American writer and director.
A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey.
A mother sneaks off in the middle of the night.
A Kid gets an unwanted visitor at night
Kid gets bored after school and picks his nose.
In a rural Utah town, David, a father of four, grapples with his separation from wife Nikki as she pursues a new relationship.
A Documentation of the lives of grave diggers.
3 Friends go on a late night drive to get food.
A man fights to preserve what remains of Salt Lake City’s erased Japantown.
Fearing the apocalypse, an insurance salesman sets off into the woods on a solo hunting experiment.
Using the photo book aesthetic, filmmakers Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian explore some nearly abandoned prairie towns of Nebraska and meditate on the blurred lines between still photography and cinema.
A slice of life about a grandpa and his grandsons, the future and the past.
Five siblings, from one to thirteen, spend a day on their own, uncertain whether this time their depressed and unreliable mother is really gone for good. Harper, the eldest and the only girl, looks after her brothers as she always does, as their day descends into fantasy and chaos.
Charlie, a 4-year-old who loves Bugs Bunny, decides to hunt a rabbit of his own.
Members of a family begin dying one by one at a funeral, while Youngest searches for the stranger in their midst.
A shift at a metal foundry provides the basis for a meditation of life as a pressure machine.
A woman travels to a diner hoping to meet someone from her past.
Documenting the people and landscapes of the Salinas Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in California.
When Suzette passes away, her husband Bruce is forced to face the inevitable questions we spend our lives avoiding.
A middle-aged woman spends her days taking care of her live-in 98-year old father and ponders the essence of familial love.
At their father's 3rd wedding, estranged siblings Matt & Haley struggle to connect after years apart. Haley faces relationship issues and Matt’s abrasive nature only makes things worse. Eventually Matt sincerely apologizes and supports Haley in addressing her romantic feelings. Haley, in turn supports Matt’s nature by de-escalating tension between him and their father by playing a song from Matt's band. In the end there is hope for a future between them.
