Category: Films

  • Same-Sex Marriage Ad

    Running time: 25sec Created for a television competition, this ad points out that the definition of marriage has been changed before, when we became more tolerant. Interracial marriage, it points out, was illegal in some states in 1967. In fact, interracial marriage was illegal in some constitutions until the year 2000!

  • The Great Debaters Re-edited Trailer

    Running time: 1:22 This trailer is made for a class, meant to promote urban debate in local schools with a creative re-edit of the official trailer from the Denzel Washington movie The Great Debaters with a 60 Minutes episode. I tried to keep the look and feel of the original trailer while changing the message.

  • A Day For Danny

    Running time: 8:09 Filmed during my abroad program in the Czech Republic on 16mm color film with paid professional actors.

  • Viva La Revolucion! Nu Housing Video

    Running time: 13:46 A housing revolution was begun, turning the Brown housing lottery from terrible to worse! Filmed with the Nu Plege Class of AEΠ, as a complete joke.

  • Restraint

    Running time: 3:30 Boy likes girl, but he is very inexperienced. Restraint tells a quick, playful tale of attraction.

  • The Engagement

    Running time: 1:16 The assignment was to tell an entire story using just one shot. See how much you can figure out.

  • Amazing Grace

    Running time: 3:50 A music video set to Leann Rimes’ haunting rendition of “Amazing Grace.” A heart attack and a love lost…

  • Fake Titanic Commercial

    Running time: 1:32 As a project to illustrate the power of editing and the capacity of video to lie, I created a fake commercial for the movie “Titanic” that makes it seem as if it’s about something entirely different.

  • Stress

    WINNER OF A HIGH SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL! Running time: 2:30 If any complaint about Harvard-Westlake high school is valid, it is that students are stressed. Lindsey Rosin (’03) and I set out to get a picture of the campus climate.

  • Nightmare on North Faring

    Running time: 15:34 The Student Council decided to do something different than their typical end-of-year assembly, so I directed a short mystery. The Wolverine (the school mascot) has been kidnapped and it is up to the student council to find him. The film includes a light saber fight, disappearing people, and a villain that will…