essentia

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

A collection of moments as a man attempts to recover from a heartbreak, but finds himself in mental turmoil.

Beneath the blinding lights of an amphitheater that exist just slightly out of time and space. Moira, a girl clad in white danced like a puppet on a string to the tunes of looming horrors but also to the romanticism and tragedy that comes with humanity’s strong attachments to their kind and in some cases, to their own fate.

Filmed during summer 2019, Jesus Is King brings Kanye West’s famed Sunday Service to life in the Roden Crater, visionary artist James Turrell’s never-before-seen installation in Arizona’s Painted Desert. This one-of-a-kind experience features songs arranged by West in the gospel tradition along with new music from his forthcoming album.

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night -- and possibly her life.

Sequel to Moon Men, Summit of Saturn follows Adrian and Sumner as they live in isolation in the city, unable to figure out themselves creatively. Reality soon starts to dissolve around them as they descend into cosmic madness and they must find their separate ways out.

A woman looking for an intruder.

An experimental film about narrations of two journal photos from Iran's revolution in 1979.

Sebastian, an ambitious magazine creator wants to explore the world and document his experiences. During his maladaptive daydreams, reality comes crashing down on him.

A photographer looks at pictures of the last day of a boy's life.