Directing: film | theater

funeral FUNERAL
13 minutes, Color, Super 16

Ruby Valentine is obsessed with creating the perfect funeral for her hairdresser father, Lawrence Valentine, and despite the somber occasion and the antagonism of her mother, inspires lust in funeral director Sylus Green.

 

 
plan b PLAN B
9 minutes, color, DV

A bad party and a botched set up drive a young drunk woman and a sober older man to find solitude in the same bathroom.

 

birthday suit BIRTHDAY SUIT
3 minutes, B&W 16mm

A bookish girl tries to fantasize a pornographic story to win a writing competition.

 

 
no washing machine NO WASHING MACHINE
5 minutes, color, DV

A new mother dispels the myths of earth mother advisors as she realizes she has no washing machine to clean cloth diapers; her philosophical conflicts between being a good mother and raising an eco-friendly baby reveal a deep love for her child.

 

wedding band WEDDING BAND
5 minutes, B&W 16mm

A noirish dream film about a girl who falls asleep in a park. Her dream characters and the real characters in the park mingle into a nightmarish awakening.

 

 
kafkaesque KAFKA-ESQUE
5 minutes, color and B&W, 16mm

Based on Kafka’s diaries as adapted by choreographer Anna Sokolow and performed by Sokolow’s Player’s Project.

 

susse teile SÜSSE TEILE (sweet piece)
3 minutes, B&W 16mm

A woman ensnares her lovers with chocolate cakes.
"It is not coincidence; it is fate."
Screened at the Hamburg International No Budget Competition, 1995.

 
tutors TUTORS
Documentary, 10 minutes, B&W 16mm

An observational Wiseman-style documentary about English as a Second Language tutors at City University/Hunter College’s Writing Center.