Three Women is a work of fiction. I wrote a script and I directed actors. But for me, these stories are also true. They tell the story of women in pain who struggle to make sense of their lives. Photographs tell these stories, not video, as I wanted viewers to have the opportunity to linger, to…
A film about a high school cross country star growing up in a Native American community faces a barrage of personal struggles the day before the most important race of his life. Staring Booboo Stewart and Q'orinaka Kilcher Dir Brent Ryan Green
The practical application of Suspension of Disbelief first appeared in visual arts and is often used in movies nowadays. How many impossible things is the audience willing to overlook to be entertained? Every time something impossible makes its way across the screen and the audience accepts it, suspension…
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French Film
Nine months pregnant, Jesse (Dana Anderson) is no more prepared to cope with life as a mother than she is with being a wife. She spends her days half-heatedly cleaning the trailer, working on her tan, and fighting with her husband, Hank (John M. Jackson). Life is fairly predictable, though not particularly…
Spending the weekend in a faceless Los Angeles hotel, writing a cat litter commercial, Jack feels he has reached an all-time low. He orders a call girl, Gabriella, whose specialty lies in storytelling. Through the night, Gabriella tells a story about a young man named Jake, who takes an extended holiday…
Japanese star Erika Oda (Kore-eda’s Cannes smash After Life) stars as Tengan Rei, a young Okinawan woman who kidnaps Paris, the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl. Unlocking their shared histories, Rei and Paris are drawn together, even as the boy’s father…
Children of Water Starring: Lili Sakamoto and Ted Taylor Written and directed by Roger Walch Length: 51 min, Japan 2010, Language: English (with Japanese subtitles) After one year in an ESL-course in the US, Mina - a Japanese graphic designer - returns to Kyoto and discovers that she is pregnant.…
YUWAKU 3 Length: 35 minutes, Japan 2006 (w/ English subtitles) Starring: Yoshiko Matsuda and Nigel Randell Written and directed by Roger Walch Michael (Nigel Randell) is a burned-out English teacher in Kyoto who is taken to a seedy dive-bar filled with surreal characters right out of a modern…
According to Hindu mythology, we are living in the Kali Yug (“Age of Kali”), a time of decadence, desire and deterioration… A young, recently married Los Angeles couple–Tom and Ellie–are certainly on their way to affluence. They are sophisticates, whose lives turn upside…
Hillary and Bonnie, two young teenagers, meet one morning by the side of the road, become fast friends, and on a rising wave of frenzy later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say, for fun. John, a journalist, is given the challenge of making sense of this senseless crime, and…
