Acting
Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.
Bodega Bay's final performance: Mercury Lounge, June 3rd, 2016, NYC Filmed in one take on hi8 (with a brief tape glitch cutting "Second Row Center" short)
Trouble ensues when a gang invades a library.
The always-serious rock and roller Spence (Eric Kuehnemann) receives an invitation to visit his ex Monika (Nikki Belfiglio) at her trendy new friend Catherine's (Rose Blanshei), but doesn't expect a party full of EDM-heads and masked revelers, including drug-dealing bad-boy JR (Madison Welles). Full of paranoia and yearning for Monika's attention, Spence struggles to navigate his way out of the 'little labyrinth.'
Two years after the disappearance of his twin sister Lucy, Arthur still surrounds himself with images of her. Unable to let Lucy fade into memory, he is pulled between the present with his lover and the past.
Night Portraiture was a series of experiments in improvised filmmaking, created during the hours between 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. across various New York locales (Gowanus, Kensington, the subway system) in 2013. In semi-somnambulistic altered states, the artists play out scenes inspired by the night, the city, and found objects along the way. This eight-minute edit, recut by the filmmakers in 2021, comprises scenes from the first Night Portraiture. (Screened 2/17/22 at MoMA as part of Millennium Film Workshop: “Nighttime” NYC event).
Eliza (Breanne Zill) is a head-in-clouds painter struggling with her art, sexuality, and sleep paralysis. She invites cocky painter Claude (Josef Wakeman) over to shake things up but things get strange when he interprets her manic yearnings as an invitation for sex.
