Hannah Elder

American contractors endure a surprise workplace inspection.

A journalist used in a plot to assassinate a dissident suffers a disorder in which she repeats words and phrases heard in the past.

The siblings Hannah and Andrew haven't seen each other in three years. While Hannah is going through a prolonged episode where she can't leave her house, her brother has just landed back in LA and sets off to Pasadena on foot. He goes on a day-long journey through the city with only one goal in mind: Prolonging the reunion with his sister for as long as he possibly can.

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

Harley tries to deal with his tumultuous emotions after his gay best friend Lucas is horribly beaten in a hate crime. When Lucas is released from the hospital, Harley discovers his feeling have changed.

Charlie is in love with Brie. Or is he?

In life we often play a role, be that a parent, a spouse, an employee, etc. Writer/director Jim Cummings explores the dynamics between playing a part and being real in this short film about an idealized family.

To confront his past trauma, an amputee veteran acts in a hyperrealistic military simulation.

A forensic sculptor re-constructing the faces of murder victims isn’t sure why her latest assignment looks so familiar.

Spend a year through the ups and downs of the life of an American teenager, told entirely from the perspective of his iPhone.

Charlie is in love with Brie. Or is he?