Ian Clark
Directing
Known For
A loving portrait of small-town America, sun-filled days, and easy livin'.
Country Story

When they find one another by chance in the middle of the woods, old friends Zach and Ellyn seem smiled-upon by the gods of summer, fated for a carefree season ranging across hills, lakes and forests. Gradually, however, their charmed reunion is distorted by an unseen but ever-expanding presence. Are they hidden in a quiet glade after all, or perched on the tip of the universe, buffeted by cosmic winds? Directed, shot, and edited by Ian Clark, A Morning Light finds a new mode for the sci-fi thriller, one of insomniac watchfulness. With its eerily precise photography and uncanny soundscape that pulses, rumbles, and roars behind sedate scenery, it poses the otherworldly as something very near, something embedded in our own eyes and ears. — Jon Kieran, New Orleans Film Festival
A Morning Light

A reclusive man lives out his days exploring the surrounding landscape and collecting discarded treasures, spending most of his time in isolation until he meets Bonnie.
Pool Room

An inter-dimensional fever dream about DMT and the margins of human perception.
Animal in Ascension
An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct and verité, and the ways in which technology, landscape, and beauty coalesce.
MMXIII

Rob and his best friend Austyn apply to become human guinea pigs at the local medical testing facility of a vaguely intentioned multinational company called EvCorp. As the facility's mere presence has bitterly polarized their town, the two apply in stealth. Only Austyn is accepted - ushered away and out of contact into EvCorp's shadowy interior - leaving Rob to bear the burden of secrecy as well as the private concern that perhaps not all will be well with his buddy. As he navigates both sides of the town's deepening rift, guilt and denial do battle in his mind - evoking eerie visions, paranoia, and a strange physical malady. SLACKJAW is a mildly absurd bromantic dramedy about the path to personal responsibility amidst the divisive fog of a politicized landscape.
Slackjaw
A pseudo-western adventure film about two klutzy criminals whose delusions of grandeur lead them sky high.
David and July in the Month of May

A sesh with the boys would make dad glad. But if dad can't get rad, then will he be sad?
Rad Dad

A young landscape painter navigates a fleeting relationship.