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Jake the Cinephile is the story of a young film fanatic who, fed up with the rowdy behavior and disrespectful etiquette of movie theater audiences, decides to abandon the cinema and take a stab at an actual relationship with a young woman.

Charlie, a socially inept young man, compulsively confesses every detail of his anti-social behavior to his mother, Hazel, with whom he still lives in Harlem. When his mother asks him to finally move out of her apartment, Charlie is forced to confront his greatest fears - losing his only life witness and living in a world without his only friend and confidante.

The bravest adventurer at The League of Interplanetary Process Servers attempts to deliver 30 subpoenas throughout the universe in only ten minutes.

Heart of Gold is Jack Kyser's fourth film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.

Proper Behavior For Your Date is Jack Kyser's third film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.

Marty, a lovelorn student at New York University, uncomfortably mingles with fellow members of his debate team at a college party, before breaking away from them entirely.

A conservative Texas state senator reconsiders his anti-abortion views after being forcibly surgically connected to a woman whom he must keep alive with his own body for nine months.

On her first day as a sign spinner for a tax preparation franchise, Nora, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, gets into an argument with Clark, an abortion protester sharing her street corner.

Harvey's Last Night on the Avenue concerns a sensitive young man who joins a group of his friends on a bar crawl the night before he moves from New York back to his hometown in Texas. An obsessive and socially awkward person, Harvey ruminates over many of his minor social faux pas that he perceives as huge errors. As the night goes on, he accrues more and more faults in his mind, and becomes increasingly unable to connect with the people around him.

The Wheels is a portrait of the relationship between an alcoholic father, John, and his seventeen year-old son, Harry.

Jack and Lucas travel to the Midwest to attend their high school friend's wedding. Confined in a hotel room together, they're consumed by their own insecurities, as Jack tries to write the perfect wedding speech, while Lucas grapples with his romantic devastation. As the wedding approaches, the question arises: can they get to a place where they understand each other?

Vincent is Jack's Final Narrative for Jennifer Rodewald's Spring 2010 Frame and Sequence class.

Relapse is Jack Kyser's second film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.

Jack Kyser's first film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.