Tormento

Sound of Sun

2017

The discovery of self-awareness in a twisting venture between dreams and reality. (The first piece of the director's Transformational Trilogy)

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Veterans of Foreign Wars follows a queer college student struggling with loneliness and confinement. Escaping her dorm room, she finds herself lost in a memory with her mother and an ice cream cone. Navigating the emotions of an outsider, this poem/screenplay hybrid documents the typical, yet rarely displayed remoteness of college life. The abrupt turn at the end leaves the viewer questioning their associations with anger, savagery, and our national gun violence crisis.

Shadow Dancing in the West

2026

When their father’s death forces them back to their family ranch to spread his ashes, two estranged brothers dance around their troubled past until a strange object falls from the sky.

Ordinary People

1980

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Among the Living

2014

Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.

Billy Boy

A former football star turned real estate broker meets with rich, spoiled young Billy to close a deal on a mansion, and nothing goes according to plan.

The Heart Is a Dark Forest

2007

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

A Simple Story

1978

A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.