Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

A down-on-his-luck photographer determined to capture visual magic and fame. He concocts an intricate plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and sets his camera to record the exact moment of its destruction.

Pedro, an outsider trapped in a passionless marriage, secretly escapes through music. When he meets Kira, another outsider who shares his yearning for true intimacy, they begin a risky conversational affair.

Ten aliens in human host bodies learn how to be men.

Barbara's and Bob's conjugal life is upset when Bob's former college roommate shows up unexpectedly.

Yuppie corporate attorney Emily is fed up with both her job and her man. A burned-out fellow attorney bucking for a partnership. All work and no play takes it toll on the lovebirds until Emily's old flame from Israel shows up on her doorstep and makes her an offer she may not refuse.

Valentina Moreno, a single mother who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy Manhattan family, takes decisive action when something from her past threatens to ruin her personal and professional relationships.

Dentist waiting rooms aren't that much fun. But here, a microcosm of society of the verge of voluntarily submitting to great pain; there is joy.

After being assaulted, a young woman is disturbed to notice a man watching her as she practices self-defense by herself in a park basketball court. Overwhelmed, she has to choose to stand her ground or run away.

Will a man who has committed the perfect murder be able to live with the guilt? Will he allow his desire for absolution to override that of self-preservation? Will something as harmless as a parlor game push him into revealing his horrible secret? In the classical style of The Twilight Zone, medical student Phillip Howe wages battle against himself as he fights his urge to confess. Even then, will anyone believe him?

Dramatizes the kidnapping of a young white boy by a black teenager after an attempted robbery in a Florida supermarket. Filmed from the perspective of the child.

Through the streets and boroughs of New York, Jimmy, a bicycle messenger from the Albatross Courier Company is out to deliver a package "on time". Braving the perilous city streets there's nothing Jimmy can't handle...or is there? This 1987 comedy classic short shown worldwide marked the debut of Director/Screenwriter Ari Taub and captured the spirit of low-budget filmmaking in New York City.

When a young Navajo woman returns to her childhood home, she's surprised to cross paths with her estranged older brother. A simple visit soon spirals into a long-avoided confrontation that forces both siblings to face the past they've been running from.

A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene.

Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business is slow. One evening, Mr. Lovejoy shows up to offer Zack the same deal he gave to Joe. It could turn his business around, but what will he have to give in return?

Lawyer Denise Lamoureux visits her former colleague Scott Lombardi and covertly interrogates him to see if he's responsible for her not getting a job at his Buffalo firm.

A writer named Algernon becomes obsessed with a picture of a boat on his wall, an fixation that soon consumes his thoughts and daily life. He tries to recover through therapy and marriage, but his compulsions return—drawing him deeper into the image until he vanishes within it.

During a long ride home from a punk show, a young boy fails to learn that sometimes when you talk, it annoys your friends.

Short film / "Dollar Baby" version of the Stephen King short story from 1987.

A middle-aged mobster reflects on his rise from bootlegger to success, crediting his longtime friend Joe for his good fortune—unaware that Joe has been betraying him all along, both in business and at home.

A parody of an old-fashioned western set in contemporary Manhattan, with nods to "Gunsmoke," John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood. Among its humorous updatings of classic western stereotypes, its final showdown takes place on a desolate landfill, and the town prostitute, named Belle, is a black transvestite.