Jake Reale

Using poetry, interviews with psychologists and survivors, and corporeal imagery, Broca is an experimental documentary hybrid that explores how the mind-body connection is altered after trauma. The Broca’s Area in the brain is involved primarily in speech production. During a traumatic event or when trying to recall a traumatic event, this area shuts down. This makes it harder for a survivor to talk about what’s happened. Our project is an experimental documentary hybrid that offers a platform for survivors to tell their stories both verbally and non-verbally.

It’s 2008, and one high school grad is out for revenge. A year after a mysterious tragedy in a small town, friends reunite and party. Haunted by their reputations, one by one they’ll all get what’s coming for them. Whether it kills them or not.

A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.

In a near-future world where petty thieves use the dark web to coordinate robberies, a destitute burglar is confronted with a malevolent presence in an apartment she found online.

Having fallen on hard times, a college student takes refuge at their rich friend’s mansion but soon finds themselves tormented by the presence of the friend’s prized stuffed bear.