Jerzy Rose

Taking its title from Tod Browning’s classic film, this radical reframing of how characters with disabilities are represented looks at a century of Hollywood favorites with a fresh perspective. Disability activists imagine a cinematic landscape that takes people with disabilities seriously.

A sublime comedy of biting humor and unusual schemes that paints a satirical portrait of millennials and hipsters who think they’re benefitting their community. But good intentions do not always have good consequences.

On their first night of marriage, a wife tells her husband about an ancient curse on the women in her family that threatens very specific calamity should their husbands lie, and justifiably skeptical, the husband decides to test the truth of the story.

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that really exists and has nothing to do with human beings. A highly stylized depiction of nature in all her deceitful glory.

An American couple argues about the safety of a French girl after a night out.

After cheating on her mean boyfriend, Lewis, Brownie is hospitalized by a series of severe accidents. Instead of visiting her in the hospital, Lewis (assistant to the Dean of the local university) helps investigate two professors suspected of sleeping with students.

A whaler is secretly in love with the white whale he is supposed to be hunting.

A narcissistic filmmaker delivers a deeply fake apology for a libelous deepfake.

The true story of America's least respected veterans.

Hearts, hands and hot-air balloons swirl in the ethereal void as a lonesome diver attempts to express himself to a long-dead Theremin virtuoso.

A university has found the leg bone of Amelia Earhart. A high school science teacher travels to the underworld to bring back his girlfriend. Animals are organizing into concentric circles and helium has escaped into the luminiferous aether.

An outdoor painting instructor takes an objectionable interest in an attractive young couple's summer romance.

A young woman searches for meaning in a bland, bland, empty, bland, lonely fog of nothingness.

A lovesick pilot in the 1930s confronts his monochromatic dream lady. Assumptions are made. Hearts are broken.