2005





Pulling A Legend


Now in Post - Short romantic comedy.

Panasonic 24P. 20 min.







Now in Post - Short USC film, to be shot in Bakersfield, California.

Panasonic HD Varicam. 15 min.



Jupiter Hill






Ashtray


Now in Post - A young man who submits to the ills of his father and his roommate, pulls himself together to romance the night with a girl who reminds him of being happy again.

Two Panasonic 24P. 18 min.





2004





Watch Clip - Psychological thriller surrounding a high school crush, revisited years later. Now in post.

JVC GY-DV700WU, promist, mattebox, follow focus. 120+ mins.



Obsessed






Myopia


HD action short about the end of the world happening right outside your neighborhood cafe window.

Panasonic HD Varicam. 10 mins.



Starring Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert, "Saturday Night Live") and Josh Cooke (NBC's "Committed").






Watch - Spec shoe commercial for an Advanced Video Design class production.

Canon XL-1. 3 mins.



False Start






Brakelights



A couple argues in corrolation to the intensity of brakelights in Los Angeles rush hour traffic.

Panasonic 24P. 10 mins.



Screened at Narrative: Digital Storytelling (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2004), CiberArt: International Festival of New Technologies, Art, and Communication (Bilbao, Spain, 2004), Output International Design Competition (Winner, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004). Featured in Aminima Magazine (Madrid, Spain, 2004).






Watch - UCLA film student's experimental 16mm short.

ARRI SR-2 with primes. 10 mins.



Tear







Onomatopoeia



Watch - This Bergman-inspired melodrama follows a daughter whose heart has been misplaced by her loveless mother.

Panasonic 24P. 12 mins.



Screened at UCLA Undergrad Show 2004. A still frame from this project was included in the UCLA Design School recruitment report (credit omitted).






Watch - An experiment in going from grunge to Hollywood stylistically within the same scene.

Panasonic 24P. 3 mins.



30 Seconds Under the Influence







Inside



Watch - Two friends, one suffering a cocaine addiction, deal with the consequences of one another.

Canon GL-2. 10 mins.







Music video for band Karaoke Outfit, shot mostly on the rooftop of an apartment in Los Angeles.

4 Panasonic 24P. 5 mins.



Ghost Story Music Video




2003





The Plagiarist


A famous novelist is dying. But his distant daughter, the plagiarist, is the one transcribing his final manuscript.

Sony DVCPro50. 10 mins.



Starring Autumn Reeser (Girl Next Door, "Complete Savages").






A city woman escapes to the country to indulge in a lunchbreak fantasy about a side-of-the-road farmer.

Panasonic 24P. 5 mins.



Pass







Trace


Short suspense neo-noir, following an escaped lab patient.

Panasonic 24P with Steadicam. 3 mins.







Trailer for a feature screenplay by director William Lu.

Canon XL-1 with manual lens. 10 mins.



ABC - American Born Chinese





Coming Soon
Leaf


Watch - A passive, popular senior in high school lets an chance for friendship with a pretty girl pass him by.

Canon GL-2. 10 mins.







Watch - One Turian fights for his freedom - but is freedom all he had hoped? - Filmed illegally in the middle of the night in an underground system of pipes and rooms.

Canon GL-2. 6 mins.


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Turian






The Switch


Directed by Ryan Belenzon. Photographed without any lights, ala DOGME 95, pushed two stops.

ARRI-S with Kodak Vision2 800. 6 mins.



Screened at UCLA Shorttakes (2004)






Watch - A mailman that never writes; a daughter that yearns her father's love; one afternoon they meet.

Canon XL-1. 8 mins.


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Renegade


Watch - In a world where no one is safe and nothing is sacred, this renegade juxtoposes fantasy and reality.

Canon GL-2. 7 mins.





2002





Watch - A cat owner's obsession takes a suspenseful turn. Here kitty, kitty.

Canon GL-2. 6 mins.


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My Dear Addison


Screened at San Francisco International Film Festival (2002).





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Poser


Watch - A teen punk sits next to a Nietzsche-esque sign.

Canon GL-2. 5 mins.







Watch - A woman is very late for work.

Canon GL-2. 6 mins.


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4pm




2001




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All About It - Paris


Watch - Paris segment of "All About It"

Canon GL-2. 5 mins.







Watch - London segment of "All About It"

Canon GL-2. 5 mins.


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All About It - London





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All About It


Watch - Teenagers from San Francisco visit England, France, Italy, and Spain in 2001 and discuss the benefits and challenges of art and travel.

Canon GL-2. 35 mins.





2000





Watch - A midnight food craving becomes a nightmare.

Canon GL-2. 5 mins.


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D for Doughnut


Screened at San Francisco International Film Festival (2001).





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Down


Watch - A floor-to-floor elevator ride showing the rider's decrepitating schizophrenia.

Canon GL-1. 6 mins.



Screened at San Francisco International Film Festival (2001).






A look at the life of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Flashback sequence only.

Canon GL-1 with distorting lens. 35 mins.


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What She Knows





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Good Morning



Watch - A young girl wakes up and discovers that her parents have just abandoned her.

Canon GL-1. 5 mins.





1999





Watch - Two girls battle over nostalgia on the beach.

1-chip miniDV. 5 mins.


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What She Knows



Screened at Museum of Modern Art (Festival, San Francisco, 2000).





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Perfection



Watch - A teenage girl rejects the beauty images in a teen magazine.

1-chip miniDV. 5 mins.



Screened at San Francisco International Film Festival (2000).