Todd Raviotta

Hitiro the noble samurai serves the Emperor of Richmond, Virginia. After he refuses to enforce the Emperor's draconian tax policies, Hitiro is attacked by a jealous rival, who frames Hitiro for the murder of his wife. Hitiro escapes multiple ninja assassins, and seeks to begin a new life at a peaceful, rural village under the alias of "Hitiro the peasant." But can Hitiro outrun his past? Can he deny his burgeoning feelings for Ikama, daughter of the village headman? And can he save his new home from the wrath of the Emperor's soldiers?

Mediated was made during Todd Raviotta's graduate studies at VCU photography and film. The 54 min movie is about a media obsessed recluse Phillip, who has more conversations with his televisions than his neighbors. represents the mind of america in the early 2000's. The final script for the film was written in the wake of media coverage of 9/11/01 production started 2/14/2002, 2nd unit photography, the postproduction, VFX and sound editing, went through 2005 the film was first screened in Richmond, Virginia, December of 2005 and was screened again in march and may of 2007.

Two young men on the verge of adulthood confront their sexual identities in the shadow of the Confederacy, one hot summer day down at the river.

Patricia Pearson, retired doyenne of the New York stage, finds her routine morning dog walk turn into something far more profound. A series of chance encounters forces her to confront a painful personal loss, and with it the beauty and transience of life itself.

Media consumption, device worship, mutation of images and ideas while the world careens to implosion. Many apocalyptic scenarios of doom and gloom, turned into hypnotic visions of eye candy. A free flow of visual icons blending into each other on different levels of observation and commentary.