Robert Machoian

In a rural Utah town, David, a father of four, grapples with his separation from wife Nikki as she pursues a new relationship.

A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey.

Fearing the apocalypse, an insurance salesman sets off into the woods on a solo hunting experiment.

A Kid gets an unwanted visitor at night

A mother sneaks off in the middle of the night.

Kid gets bored after school and picks his nose.

3 Friends go on a late night drive to get food.

Members of a family begin dying one by one at a funeral, while Youngest searches for the stranger in their midst.

Five siblings, from one to thirteen, spend a day on their own, uncertain whether this time their depressed and unreliable mother is really gone for good. Harper, the eldest and the only girl, looks after her brothers as she always does, as their day descends into fantasy and chaos.

A man fights to preserve what remains of Salt Lake City’s erased Japantown.

A companion piece to the Pressure Machine album, Notes From A Quiet Town features stripped back performances and interviews with the people of Nephi, the town on which Pressure Machine is based…

A shift at a metal foundry provides the basis for a meditation of life as a pressure machine.

At their father's 3rd wedding, estranged siblings Matt & Haley struggle to connect after years apart. Haley faces relationship issues and Matt’s abrasive nature only makes things worse. Eventually Matt sincerely apologizes and supports Haley in addressing her romantic feelings. Haley, in turn supports Matt’s nature by de-escalating tension between him and their father by playing a song from Matt's band. In the end there is hope for a future between them.

Using the photo book aesthetic, filmmakers Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian explore some nearly abandoned prairie towns of Nebraska and meditate on the blurred lines between still photography and cinema.

A young mother of limited means puts everything on the line to pursue her dream of becoming a competitive runner.

A military dictatorship grips Argentina during the 1970's and 80's, and many people disappear and are killed. Carlos, for reasons unknown, is suddenly released from prison and attempts to navigate his way home.

Documenting the people and landscapes of the Salinas Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in California.

A slice of life about a grandpa and his grandsons, the future and the past.