Directing
An actress plays lover to a face-blind man, and loses track of her audience.
The bravest adventurer at The League of Interplanetary Process Servers attempts to deliver 30 subpoenas throughout the universe in only ten minutes.
Heart of Gold is Jack Kyser's fourth film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.
Nathan is a young, rebellious man who avoids typical work by intentionally getting into bar fights and then suing his attackers to make a living. His girlfriend Alice works as a professional clown to combat depression. Together, they struggle with the ramifications of Nathan's career.
A film fanatic's life unravels in the wake of his mother's death and the impending closure of his beloved arthouse cinema. Complicating matters is his burgeoning relationship with a troubled young musician.
Proper Behavior For Your Date is Jack Kyser's third film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.
Marty, a lovelorn student at New York University, uncomfortably mingles with fellow members of his debate team at a college party, before breaking away from them entirely.
On her first day as a sign spinner for a tax preparation franchise, Nora, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, gets into an argument with Clark, an abortion protester sharing her street corner.
Jake the Cinephile is the story of a young film fanatic who, fed up with the rowdy behavior and disrespectful etiquette of movie theater audiences, decides to abandon the cinema and take a stab at an actual relationship with a young woman.
A conservative Texas state senator reconsiders his anti-abortion views after being forcibly surgically connected to a woman whom he must keep alive with his own body for nine months.
The Wheels is a portrait of the relationship between an alcoholic father, John, and his seventeen year-old son, Harry.
Charlie, a socially inept young man, compulsively confesses every detail of his anti-social behavior to his mother, Hazel, with whom he still lives in Harlem. When his mother asks him to finally move out of her apartment, Charlie is forced to confront his greatest fears - losing his only life witness and living in a world without his only friend and confidante.
Jack Kyser's first film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.
Relapse is Jack Kyser's second film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.
Officer Thurmon Bell calls in a fake 911 report so that his ex-girlfriend (also a police officer) will show up, and he can win her back. Armed with flowers and a romantic song, he awaits her arrival eagerly. However, two male officers show up instead, and his plan soon falls to pieces; Thurmon must deal with the consequences of his love.
Rusty Lightnin', a goofy cowboy spokesman for a local car dealership, peddles a crowdfunding campaign in lo-fi TV spots. But the actor behind the cowboy, Leonard, is secretly an informant for ATF agents looking to bust the dealership's owner for firearms trafficking.
Harvey's Last Night on the Avenue concerns a sensitive young man who joins a group of his friends on a bar crawl the night before he moves from New York back to his hometown in Texas. An obsessive and socially awkward person, Harvey ruminates over many of his minor social faux pas that he perceives as huge errors. As the night goes on, he accrues more and more faults in his mind, and becomes increasingly unable to connect with the people around him.
Jack and Lucas travel to the Midwest to attend their high school friend's wedding. Confined in a hotel room together, they're consumed by their own insecurities, as Jack tries to write the perfect wedding speech, while Lucas grapples with his romantic devastation. As the wedding approaches, the question arises: can they get to a place where they understand each other?
Vincent is Jack's Final Narrative for Jennifer Rodewald's Spring 2010 Frame and Sequence class.
