John Patrick Manio

Lysistrata is an experimental black-and-white short film reinterpretation loosely based on the ancient Greek comedy of the same name by Aristophanes.

Three strangers meet at a party one night and discover hidden desires, sins, and guilt when they realize that they are in the netherworld.

In a mental rehabilitation center, a woman, newly turned sixty, with schizoaffective disorder, waits all year for her family to visit on her birthday. But as the day arrives, a typhoon threatens to derail her plans and her sense of reality.