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Shipyard Shipyard is a landmark documentary covering the creation and life of Bellingham, Washington's wooden boat shipyard, which was built in response to the Axis threat of WWII, it's continued growth through the '50's and '60's, as well as it's innovative role in the development and production of fiberglass boats, including patrol riverboats for the Vietnam war.

Tamalero What do resilience and conviviality taste like in prison? Reflections roll through Tamalero like waves, from generational food rituals in childhood to collective meal practices while incarcerated, and inform composed yet fragmentary glimpses. Hands, light, and faces each serve as an invocation to presence with sound: an ambient dream-space of sound from a propane burner on John Avila's Prison Pies food cart, and his memories and contemplations.

The Cemetery A lost child.

Foundling A grieving couple hit a monkey with their car. They take it home and then it starts talking.

Night Hike A film noir-inspired experimental short constructed almost entirely from still photographs. Touches of hard-boiled crime and dreamlike imagery reveal a woman's authentic self in a most unexpected way.

Hummingbird’s Wings Experimental Short bridging the gap between live action and animation, documentary and poetry.

Low Poly A low polygon model is confronted with its own mortality by the spinning beach ball of death.

Emoticon An introduction to a series about the affects of social media.

Memento Mori As 3,684 Cy... This film is a sequence of 3,684 separate Cyanotype Sunprints, developed using a photographic process invented in 1847. The poem was written by GPT-2, a state of the art A.I. writing engine. It is presented verbatim, edited only for length.

A Body Appeared At The L... A found footage examination of what happened at the lake today. Where were you? An exquisite corpse by Non Films. 8mm images randomly selected from found footage; poem written without images; music written without images or words. WINNER: BEST BROOKLYN PROJECT (Brooklyn Film Festival).