Directing
Teenage London is trying to find meaning in the world, or a leather jacket of her own. Unaccepted by neither the Mods or the Asian biker gang, she tries to find her own path. Meanwhile, the two gangs maintain a mutual vendetta sure to erupt in a smorgasbord of violence.
Brooke Dammkoehler’s meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur.
Three disaffected teenagers talk, listen to music and hang out at a bohemian coffee house.
Various eccentric characters pitch movie ideas (including the title plot in which Charles Manson steals a time machine) to a mysterious powerbroker with skeleton hands. Women wrestle in jumpsuits, men swordfight in the river. Filmed at the now-defunct Werepad artspace in San Francisco.
In a Japanese-American family, the mother is stealing the terminally ill grandpa's morphine, the airhead sister is having sex with the family lawyer, one brother gets perfect grades but is hiding a secret gay love of skinheads, and the other brother is a junkie. Over the course of one evening, the family falls apart due to their bizarre behaviour.
Black Strawberry is a grunge giallo film set in the Pacific Northwest.
In the future, mankind is on the verge of extinction because of various biological mishaps. An expedition is sent to outer space to look for a planet with life forms that are "seedable". The ship lands on a planet that turns out to be populated by hot chicks in latex, who capture the crew. Complications ensue.
