Michael Basta
Directing
Biography
Michael Basta is a Director, Editor, Writer, and Producer with a degree in Film/Video Production from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. From 2016-2023, he worked in the entertainment industry as a Video Editor on Hulu’s marketing creative team. He's edited a wide range of promotional content: including trailers, teasers, social promos, brand spots, ad sales, sizzles, display units, and cultural campaigns. He currently work as a freelance video editor/producer. He's also a Co-Founder of an independent film collective called Omnes Films, which seek to fill a void in modern cinema with films made by friends that are passionate, ambitious, favor atmosphere over plot, and study the many forms of cultural decay in the 21st century. Whatever the subject or genre, it seeks projects that are original in conception and feel like they’ve never been made before.
Known For
A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
Eephus
A bizarre journey that leads some teenagers, adult life is not as easy as they let them know, but continuing to aspire to be, does not lead them to anything good knowing that they are all miserable
Ham on Rye
After discovering a set of cryptic microcassettes in her new home, Cas is drawn into a meditative mystery of environmental sound and experimental music.
Topology of Sirens
Married ad salesman Bernard Wayland flounders through dive bars, strip malls, and other roadside pit stops in search of forbidden pleasures over the course of a three-day dental convention.
Raccoon
On a business trip, married ad salesman Bernard Wayland stumbles into the wrong motel room and finds himself confronted with a mischievous proposition.
Bernard Checks In
A film about a character who searches for a song in his recently deceased father's record collection after hearing it in his recurring dream.
Remedy In Phrases
A man sits on his porch each night and watches closely at someone who's been sleeping in their car. After a week of this he starts developing loose ideas of this mysterious person being some violent criminal.
An Absence
Two lovers. Torn apart. Watch as the dreams unfold.
Fragments of Forever
A wounded kid tries to escape from a past incident.
Things Went Wrong
A surreal film about a kid who wanders into a house only to find himself in a nightmarish dinner scene.
Eat Your Meat
Two brothers perform the same chores every day on their picturesque farm. One day, something is different.