Jon Moritsugu

Sex and drugs-getting hooked and getting off can be addicting. For Drew, eking out a mundane life in Waterville, Maine, it is resisting the illicit pleasure in New York; for Mistress Datina (Philly), it means operating a sex and drug den to cope with her life. In his visually and sexually stimulating film, director Verow introduces multiple characters and overlapping narratives that portray the physical and emotional faces of addiction. For Rob, drugs and sex are means of finding a bed to sleep in every night – while they provide Christian a means of dealing with his helplessness and loss. A writer records these characters and their unforgettable stories. The themes are universal, but the possibilities are endless.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

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.

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.

A narcissistic tennis pro, a talentless socialite and an animal rights activist discover the troubles of “fame”.

A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.

Satire and deconstruction the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos.

Three disaffected teenagers talk, listen to music and hang out at a bohemian coffee house.

An all-girl rock band sells out and becomes commercial pawns for the American beef industry.

Underground homage to Easy Rider about two girl bikers with bad attitudes who wind up on the wrong end of evil Cruella's shotgun.

A short experimental cutup film by Jon Moritsugu.

Part AC/DC, part Jacques Derrida. An experimental film made as a response to the critical theory aspects of the filmmakers degree and academic film criticism.

Del Valle's first film poignantly portrays the angst of a breakup complicated by feelings of betrayal as a Latina woman leaves her lover of the same cultural background for a white woman.

A guy freaks out, unprepared for his job as a sound man.

The sun is bright, the dirt is sacred and the weed is dry 7,000 feet above sea level. Really dry. And every hit is harsh. Time stands still here. The land is challenging and mankind's presence is sparse. There's a lot of nothing and the vast stretch of space leaves you lonesome. Welcome to The Land of Enchantment: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Population: Who knows? Who cares? Google it. We'll be out in Taos running with the coyotes and lookin' for the jackalope. No gods, no newsfeed.

A very special shipment of tainted pork arrives in Santa Fe, N.M., transforming anyone who eats it into a brilliant, but psychotic, braniac -- including a dimwitted bimbo and a punk botanist who can now hear her beloved plants.

A punked-out, radical deconstruction of the mythology of Elvis Presley colliding fact and fiction in a miasma of feedback, noise, and stoopid Presley impersonators. Der Elvis is literally and metaphorically a postmodern spew of theoretical aesthetics set to the pulsing soundtrack of utterly warped bricolage.

Commissioned for the 2019 30th Anniversary shorts omnibus, 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing.

A brief glimpse of the living conditions of the titular snackwhore.