A Place

A comic book, 2 scrappy community college students, and an intimidating gang of 10-year-old kids on bicycles... This is a heist for the ages! Set in a small Texas town, 3RD PLACE tells the tale of growing up lower class and aspiring for something greater and doing everything you can to achieve it.

Passersby at Astor Place in New York City speak silent volumes as they move by the mirrored surface of a diner window. I wanted to capture the unscripted choreography of the street, its dance of gazes and riddle of identities.

A promising high school kid is unjustly sent to the notorious juvenile prison of Iceland where he faces increasingly severe abuse from the head guard who is determined to brake his spirit.

commissioned by art spin in partnership with myseum

An ironic look at Winnipeg’s Portage Place shopping mall, from its opening day (September 17, 1987), to what may be its final days (Fall of 2019). Created for the 2019 WNDX One Take Super 8 Challenge.

Religious drama.

Toyland apparently does exist. A toy museum in Vermont houses nearly 100,000 toys with the goal of creating a space for people to remember the worry-free days of their childhood. This short documentary will enrapture viewers with nostalgia and newfound curiosity.

A video work by Nicky Hamlyn

One of several Kevin Jerome Everson pieces regarding African-American rodeo riders, SECOND PLACE brings us inside the big show. The jerkily pixilated view of a bucking bull offers an aesthetic equivalent of the cowboy's wild ride while the film's silence lends an unexpected repose to the contest. Whether anticipating a bull's blasting out of the gate or watching an old hand stretch out his back, Everson's camera is ever-attentive to the action at the edge of the frame. - Max Goldberg

A young woman navigates the new routine of quarantine, while her unsupportive husband doesn't do anything but watch horror movies and drink.

Three generationally-divided rural women manage the challenges of working on the land amidst a continually changing agricultural industry.

A mysterious foreign woman who is staying temporarily in a house there. Who she is and what her secret is are both slowly revealed in the reconstruction of a story about passion, revenge and war.

Based on the true story of a mother who suffers the passing of her blind son and escapes to the rainforest of the pacific northwest to confront her guilt of his death.

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

‘Passing Place’ is a short documentary based on my own experiences growing up in a remote area, inspired by the BBC Archive Footage ‘The Smallest School in Britain (1974)’. Working with the archive footage makes me reminisce about my own upbringing in the Highlands, and think about how social and physical distance still exists living in these remote areas, forcing young people to move away to find more opportunities elsewhere.

Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born. Civil war broke out in 1991, 10 days after Samira's birth, but two years later her family managed to flee the country and she grew up in the UK.Now, as Samira and the war both turn 21, she's going back for the first time to visit the people and places she left behind. The contrast with her safe and glamorous life in London could not be starker as she experiences firsthand the war's effect on a generation of young people growing up in conflict.

Nothing beats the great outdoors.

WIPP is a nuclear waste repository located in USA. Two teams of artists and scientists were called up in nineties of last century to answer a lot of questions which suddenly raised on the horizon. How to comunicate with next generations? How to explain to them what is stored beneath the ground in order to stop them digging further? How to pass the message through at least ten thousand years?