Matthew Rhodes

Under Refurbishment

An animatronic cowboy at a Western-themed family entertainment center struggles to maintain his creative freedom.

Candyman

Andy fights to save his waitress girlfriend from a pink-suited mob lord known as "The Candyman".

Caesura

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.

Rubaru

Charles, a young man recounts his life story. In his audio recording he shares the beauty and the ugliness of his life. How there can be such joy and such despair in the same moments? As he journeys through his story it becomes evident that something is tormenting him.

What Daphne Saw

In the future, capital punishment has been abolished. Violent criminals are reprogrammed into unquestioning servants, their free will and ability to speak taken away. A young woman endures her punishment of servitude in a seemingly normal man's home, where she discovers dark secrets.

Psychosis

Isolated in his basement apartment, a neurotic programmer begins to suspect that a technological entity is trying to abduct him.

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea

A domineering landlady uses a bizarre crisis to tighten her grip on an apartment building’s tenants. As paranoia spreads, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and grotesque, turning the building into a darkly comic pressure cooker of control, discomfort, and escalating absurdity.