Darius Clark Monroe
Directing
Known For

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.
Random Acts of Flyness

Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s clear that (1) he’s the only black guy, and (2) it’s going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. Although Tyler is welcomed, he can’t help but feel uneasy in “Whitesville.” The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler’s precarious situation starts to feel like a nightmare.
Tyrel

Dallas, 2019 captures the pulse of a city and the people who work and live there, all trying to build a better future.
Dallas, 2019

An online hookup attempt takes a strange turn.
Slow

Late night in New York, Carl takes the Brooklyn bound F train home and runs into trouble in this thought provoking short film about fear and guilt.
Train

In 1997, 17-year old Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank and went to prison for it; then he went to NYU film school and made this movie about his life. The movie presents itself as an act of atonement, and an attempt by Monroe to understand himself and the social forces that drove him to a life of crime. Executive produced by Spike Lee, who was one of Monroe's professors at NYU.
Evolution of a Criminal

A psychiatric casualty of war recently returned to the US, Sonya's imagined sense of normalcy crumbles around her; she must hunt or become the hunted.
Black Swan Theory
One night after a brief 'visit,' Angela prepares to leave Derek's apartment, but he's determined to not let her go so easily. A drama about a common moment in a relationship, 'Close' explores the intense frustration that comes when the person you desire does not see things your way.
Close

The story of what happened when a group of college athletes decided to protest a long-standing racial injustice.
The Black 14

Testify tells the story of a broken relationship between Pastor Cyrus Biggs(Al Thompson) and his son Gene(Art Evans) who is dying from AIDS. Pastor Biggs reluctantly visits Gene during his final days after being absent from his life previously and much is revealed about both the father and son.
Testify

Some things must die to live.
Dirt
A portrait of a man, a place and an obsession, becomes more complicated as we delve deeper.