Hannah Elder

When Beach Boy Dennis Wilson introduced his new pal to the L.A. music scene, sparks began to fly. Charlie, an intense singer-songwriter, penned some songs for The Beach Boys, but his worldwide fame came for another reason entirely.

What happens after high school? Grad Luna finds herself not knowing what the future holds.

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?

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.

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

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.