In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

Joseph Lee Anderson
Garrett (segment "It’s All Right, It’s OK")

Hannah Elder
Hannah (segment "Hydrangea")
David Henry Gerson
David (segment "Hydrangea")

Jim Cummings
Jim (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

Casey Thomas Brown
Jordan (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

The Mule
The Mule

Shutterspeed
Shutterspeed

A Family Affair
A Family Affair

Tic
Tic
Hollywood Halfbacks
Hollywood Halfbacks

Blossom Graduation
Blossom Graduation

Flood
Flood
Here Now
Here Now

Gopher Broke
Gopher Broke

A Summer Solstice Story
A Summer Solstice Story

The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū
The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū

Real Inside
Real Inside