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Inside/Out (1997)
Character: David Sheppard
Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: a guard, an Episcopalian priest, and a church organist. Minimalizing dialogue and plot intricacy, Tregenza concedes only kernels of information, demanding that the viewer breathe dimensionality into his archetypes. Acting out primal instincts of lust, envy, fear, and love, subjects teeter vulnerably on the brink of sanity and insanity, freedom and repression in their attempts to navigate their existence.
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Arena Brains (1987)
Character: Artist
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentricities of this milieu.
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A Matter of Degrees (1991)
Character: The Scuzz
Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy.
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Ratchet (1996)
Character: Elliot Callahan
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent and rents a beachside house on the island Nantucket to find the peace and quiet he needs to get the creative juices flowing. There he meets the seriously intense Henry Carver (Matthew Dixon), who's written a screenplay he wants Callahan to read. Before long, Callahan suspects that Henry might be a serial killer writing about himself and that his screenplay is worth plagiarizing.
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Spark (1998)
Character: Jack
Byron and Nina, a young African American couple, are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to stop in a small, desert place just this side of a ghost town. Unaccustomed to confronting racism and bigotry on the scale preserved in this rural anachronism, Byron's confrontational response to slurs, epithets and threats quickly leads to a fight for survival -- and the Chicago couple is alone and outnumbered.
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Tom's Dilemma (2016)
Character: Mr. Jacobson
After the molestation of his son, a father struggles with his need to seek revenge and the fear that feeds his inability to do so.
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The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008)
Character: Louis
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn't good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been pals for years. When David doesn't appreciate Sam's latest attempt, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives. Ultimately, both men must reevaluate their motivations to write, their need for praise and validation, and what it means to see yourself as you actually are.
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Shooting Vegetarians (2005)
Character: Bailliff
Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead.
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Houses (2015)
Character: N/A
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity.
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On the Run (1999)
Character: Tom
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
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Claire Dolan (1998)
Character: Client #3/$1000 Trick
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
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The World Made Straight (2015)
Character: Mr. Anderson
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
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Postcards from America (1994)
Character: Adult David's Friend
Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
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Sweet Land (2005)
Character: Comrade Vik
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
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Everyday People (2004)
Character: Erin's Professor
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
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Girls Town (1996)
Character: Richard Helms
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.
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The Cold Lands (2013)
Character: Tom
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
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Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
Character: The Principal
A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 14-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Character: Lawrence
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
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Bread and Roses (2000)
Character: Director of Campaigns
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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Harry + Max (2004)
Character: Josiah
Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood.
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Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Character: Restaurant Man #1
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
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Dream Boy (2008)
Character: Preacher John
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
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Series 7 (2001)
Character: Dawn's Cameraman
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.
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