Savage Myths

Two sisters try to come to terms with their past, while striving to understand the uncertainty of the present.

A boy and a girl sit at a table within the frame and talk of wanting to change, while not moving at all.

In 'Scattered Explorations,' two artists meet at a time of transition, when their old ways of thinking and creating no longer appeal to them, and they are looking for something new, something different, and something revolutionary. They use each other as a form of connection between their previous ways of thinking and doing and what they hope to be their new ways of thinking and doing. 'Scattered Explorations' is about the time between; the analysis of a pending revolution.

A musical odyssey that takes place in an uncertain time, RAPTOR is a short film from writer/director Marc Dickerson, with songs composed by Owen Byrne. It is a surreal journey into a comedic tragedy brought on by delusions of grandeur; and a story about the passion to create something new without knowing how.

An unwelcome guest disturbs the habits of his former friend, as their history repeats itself.

Two magicians from different generations give up magic after realizing their whole lives have been based on deceiving people. They meet and realize they want to team up together to give people something real. But will the audiences agree or will their new venture go up in smoke?

Episodes from an Investigation is an essay/narrative film presented as a series of fragments from the lives of numerous cinephiles and radicals living in 21st Century America. The film cuts between three related narratives: a film collective on a journey to find a mysterious film theorist/filmmaker; a couple whose relationship is falling apart as they each work on pieces concerning the cinematic past and the cinematic present; and two cinematic radicals holed up in an unknown location trying to understand how to revolutionize cinema.

Con artists. Architecture. City planning. A play (both real and false). A comedy? A farce? An absurdist romp through a 21st century American city? Coffee. Cousins? Ideals are dead. Grants. Capitalistic pigs. Four women. Rich kids. Dead on the floor? World gone mad? Ideals are dead. It is the world that has gone mad. Paranoia. What is there left to do? Who is mad? Ideals are dead. In a world gone mad.

Two women contemplate the end of time.

A young woman struggles to free herself from the shackles of her living situation, while at the same time trying to find a new way of understanding herself, her thoughts, and her ideas. She has the desire to progress and grow intellectually.

In the early 21st century, after most infrastructure had failed... Times Is Tough.