 |
||
ABOUT US /// SCRIPTS /// FILMS /// CONTACT |
||
THE MACHINE WHO LOVED (Drama) Winner 2009 Screenplay Live!
A lonely woman forced into early retirement uses her life savings to create the man of her dreams - an artificial life form tailored to her every specification. But when he begins displaying a range of turbulent emotions she is forced to choose between soldiering through with the relationship, or having him destroyed.
Synopsis
(2008, 6 min. / narrative): The last woman says goodbye to civilization.
TEA CEREMONY AT THE END OF THE WORLD PREMIERED AT EMERGING FILMMAKERS - ROCHESTER, NY - AUG. 2009
(2006, 79 min. / narrative; mockumentary ): Hal Weaver stars in the title role as a famous artist with dubious talents and thirteen estranged children who bear his name - the eldest of whom conceives of a documentary as a means of learning more about her father and his inexplicable success.
HAPPY WALTER PREMIERED AT FILM KITCHEN - PITTSBURGH, PA - MARCH 2007
IT HAD ITS FIRST THEATRICAL BOOKING AT THE TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER - NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 2007
(2006, 20 min. / experimental): The eleven poetic films from the previous poetica.cinema. shorts are combined here in a loopable project intended for video installation.
POETICA.CINEMA./TRILOGY. PREMIERED AT THE UNITED NATIONS PHILOSOPHY DAY @ ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE - ROCHESTER, NY - NOV. 2006
Mt. Hope Clip
(2005, 14 min. / experimental; narrative; drama): Two women cross paths in the middle of a trying day, finding temporary solace in one another's company.
MT. HOPE PREMIERED AT FILM KITCHEN - PITTSBURGH, PA - JAN. 2006
(2005, 6 min. / experimental): Three original poems exploring longing and vulnerability: 1) grey matter; 2) crazy shy & bold <part2>; 3) crazy shy & bold <part 3>
POETICA.CINEMA./EROTICA. PREMIERED AS PART OF THE TRILOGY (See poetica.cinema./trilogy above)
(2005, 8 min. / experimental): Four original poems inspired by New York City: 1) waiting for lisa; 2) the dance; 3) natural history; 4) small space at the top for sky.
POETICA.CINEMA./NEW YORK. PREMIERED AS PART OF THE TRILOGY (See poetica.cinema./trilogy. above)
Against Her Skin Clip
(2005, 22 min. / narrative; psychological horror): A young woman starts a new job as a live-in nanny, expecting to make a better life for herself. Instead, she finds herself in a strange house and begins to suspect that something is being hidden from her.
AGAINST HER SKIN PREMIERED AT EMERGING FILMMAKERS - ROCHESTER, NY - AUG. 2005
poetica.cinema. Text / Excerpt on YouTube
(2005, 6 min. / experimental): Four original poems: 1) naked in a wood; 2) i see you; 3) waiting for one; 4) bloom.
POETICA. CINEMA. PREMIERED AT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR POETRY THERAPY 25TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - ST. LOUIS, MO - MAY 2005
Avi & Sylvan Watch it on YouTube
(2004, 8 min. / narrative; urban fantasy): Avi (a goddess of flying things) and Sylvan (a goddess of growing things) look and feel out of place in the concrete chaos around them. But the sister-freaks have a solution: they literally build a better world for themselves.
AVI & SYLVAN PREMIERED AT EMERGING FILMMAKERS - ROCHESTER, NY - DEC. 2004
(2004, 21 min. / documentary): This personal project combines materials all originally created by the filmmaker during the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 - audio cassettes of original music, badly-transferred Super-8 films, and interview footage. Combined, they capture the creative ambitions of the then nineteen-year-old artist, and the difficulties that shaped the next few years of her life.
Best of Luck Clip
(2003, 25 min. / documentary): Over a ten year period Zoje Stage received nearly 1,000 rejections for her writing efforts. What keeps a writer going in the face of constant rejection? Creative compulsion. Eternal hope. Stupefying masochism.
BEST OF LUCK PREMIERED AT FILM KITCHEN - PITTSBURGH, PA - FEB. 2004
(2002, 92 min. / narrative; drama; experimental): A writer with an existential crisis struggles to find a more meaningful life in the aftermath of 9/11. Her offbeat quest is compounded by the fact that she finds her fantasy life to be infinitely more interesting than her day-to-day reality.
BEWILDERNESS PREMIERED AT NEWFILMMAKERS @ ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES - NEW YORK, NY - FEB. 2006