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Pavements

'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band’s legacy, and a shamelessly awards-baiting Hollywood biopic.

Candy Rides

A painter charms an elusive young woman while bicycling in Brooklyn.

Golden Exits

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

Notes on an Appearance

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

Hellaware

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows

Jobe'z World

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies.

Whiffed Out

An abandoned bicycle in a narrow hallway ruins an anxious New Yorker's summer, while his shifty friend hopes to stave off eviction from a charity foundation's apartment by getting hired as a pizza deliveryman.

Stinking Heaven

A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.

Dear Cindy

A lonely musician films his life in the hopes of enticing a woman from Boise, Idaho to visit him in New Jersey.

Unpresidented

A New Yorker comes to regret betting on the 2016 election.

Educators

Over mushroom barley soup and ketchup laden kasha two educators in a New York diner complain about being abused at school. When the conversation turns to Trump an opportunity for a history quiz arises.

The Isolated

A lonely New Yorker pines for connections - both human and digital - during the city's COVID-19 shutdown.

Quarterbacks

In Giampietro’s comic latest, some friends’ dinner conversation about the impending NFL Draft becomes a frank discussion of the state of race relations within the league and amongst its fans.

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.

I Will Paint Your Spirit

An abstract portrait painter is enchanted by a woman whose images he discovers after buying a laptop from a shadester in a city park.

Best Picture

Upsets abound when a movie-obsessed firefighter hosts an Academy Awards viewing party.