Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

A perverted boy looks through a peephole. He sees something he is not suppose to see, a woman farting in a bathtub.

A woman dances out the effects of Lithium, a white crystalline solid used to treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Lithium helps to control the symptoms of mania, which may include a reduced need for sleep, poor judgment, hyperactivity, and sometimes hostility.

Within a society fearful of vampires, Ernesto Murciélago, a detective and luchador, must rescue a kidnapped basketball player and defeat the city's evil leader, L0L1TA (a fascist tape recorder).

Unity in an art form (music), no matter genre or age.

Two acquaintances desperately wish they didn't have to shake hands.

A young woman's television stops working, so she gets a telescope to watch TV through her neighbor's window.

As an older woman is cleaning her home, she remembers that she is all alone in her home and dreams of the boy that once lived with her.

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.

Francine faces the inevitable: she must sell her motorcycle, her greatest passion. Plunged into the apprehension of mourning, a potential buyer offers her an exchange that will bring her out of her torpor.

An animated documentary about a memorable event: in spring 1997, a coloring contest is launched for the release of a new variety of ketchup.

Vuk, a 30-year-old ex-convict haunted by his best friend's suicide, is trying to save his younger brother, Zizi.

A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.

Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.

A suffering man enters a bizarre, dreamlike world where he's forced to confront the life he's considering leaving behind.

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.

On Valentine's Day, a young couple preparing to spend a romantic moment in the spa has their evening messed up by the appearance of a monstrous creature.

A beautiful place, the same old place. Shapes of blues and greens flow with grace, a feast of rêverie for the eye. Wind, water, sun, light, the world dances with the mind. Peace and melancholy sing as everything flows and goes. Choking on comfort, locked in this world, one can simply waltz with their thoughts. In this ballad of wonders, there's only one way in and no way out. Fragmenting reality, the hues twirl along with the music. This could go on forever. This is the mind's favorite game. No resisting. Now diving into escapism.

An Experimental exploration of menstrual cycles. A collaboration with Naomi Dawn Mansfield and Lisa Bounouh.