Ringling College Studio Labs

Acting: The First Six Lessons follows The Teacher and his student, The Creature, played by Beau Bridges and Emily Bridges. Together they explore the craft of acting and evolve in their understanding and appreciation of life itself. The story unfolds in six lessons over the course of their relationship, nestled within a larger conversation with three generations of The Bridges Family. A unique hybrid of narrative and documentary storytelling, Acting: The First Six Lessons brings Richard Boleslavsky’s 1933 novel to the screen for the first time as part of an intimate glimpse into the life and craft of a multi-generational acting family.

Dark Night enigmatically unfolds over the course of a lazy summer day, as it traces the events leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban multiplex. Abandoning the narrative confines of the true crime genre, the story is told through fragmented moments from the lives of several characters, whose fates are tragically intertwined. As the sky grows darker, the placid surface of daily life becomes disturbed by a lurking and inevitable horror.

A young man goes to a house party in order to fix his strained relationship with his ex-girlfriend.

In 1940's Florida: After a botched murder, a corrupt detective falls in love with a jazz singer whom he is sent to kill.

A babysitter tells a little girl several terrifying stories about KillRoy, the vicious killer behind the famous graffiti.

After the death of his fiance, Cara, Wyatt, an emotionally explosive young man, struggles to cope with his grief and growing resentment for his reserved friend and roommate, Matt, who’s struggling with demons of his own. While Wyatt wallows in his self-loathing at the burial, he is approached by the cryptic Mysterious Man. Who offers him friendship and a chance to bring Cara back through a ritual. As tensions between Wyatt and Matt escalate, and his knowledge of the ritual expands. Wyatt learns the dark cost of what the ritual entails…

In 1970's America, a reserved pregnant newlywed of a charismatic up-and-coming politician grows impatient to express built-up resentment towards her husband during a major campaign event. The result of their confrontation could equate to desolation for both parties.

A short film based on the poem of the same name by Shel Silverstein.

Clancy, a therapist, learns one of his clients is being stalked by an enigmatic woman.

A troubled young couple are sent to another world where they are met with a mysterious creature known as The What's-Its-Face. It claims that if they don't rebind in their marriage, they will be trapped in this other world forever.

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