Columbia University School of the Arts

Based on the short story from Ernest Hemingway. It is 1915, in a mountain forest of the American Northeast. Young Nick Adams follows his father across lake Minnewaska, to an Indian Camp. Here, Nick learns that his father will try to help an Iroquois woman deliver a difficult birth.

Shame and embarrassment propel Savannah, a gifted high school student, embarks on a journey through space and time to witness the prison convictions of her great-grandmother Etta Mae, her grand-aunt Olive, and her aunt Denise. The fanciful and chilling tales of a delightfully vain maid in the 1920s, a hopelessly depressed nanny in the 1950s, and a mother frustrated during the holiday season in the 1980s, help Savannah reconcile her feelings about her own past in this touching coming-of-age story. An imaginative, thoroughly engaging drama that speaks volumes about identity and self-worth.

Short tale about the violent impulses of the young, gaybashing, and losing control.

A concert pianist falls in love with himself in this modern retelling of the Narcissus myth.

Based on the comic strip character by the same name. This comedy revolves around a dying millionaire tries to announce his heir to his greedy relatives, as well his mistress and his accountant. All are arguing amongst themselves, as they want to be chosen as his heir, knowing that the problem is that if he dies before picking one of them, all of his fortune goes to a bird-watching club. Then Politenessman interrupts and uses his steel hanky towards the millionaire, killing him, and to reprimand everyone for whispering, deeming it impolite and a sign of "bad breeding". As a result of the millionaire's death, unable to announce an heir and leaving all of his fortune to the bird-watching club. Politenessman reminds the viewers that while not everyone can be a millionaire, it costs very little to be courteous.

During a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, a young Wall Street investment banker and an old shoeshine man begin chatting and discussing their life philosophies.

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.

A surreal tale of an aging she-devil who tries to tempt a roadside artist with a one-shot deal for fame.

An avant garde prison power struggle as witnessed through the point of view of the inmates’ only television set with the biggest troublemaker and sweetest seducer on the cellblock. The Knicks have just taken the Bulls to overtime, but it’s time for Star Trek. The film took two days to shoot, one week to edit, and one year to create the special effects. With it being Shot on 16mm film and transferred to video and then edited on a computer - the first student film at Columbia to be edited digitally.

An unsettling portrait of childhood, as a young girl struggles with conflicting memories of her recently dead Greek grandmother and recreates the presence of her with a video monitor shrine adorned with candles.

A comedy set in a surreal school about a professor who lectures about Buddhism -- an ancient religion, and karma -- the law of cause and effect. He rambles on while becoming increasingly annoyed by a fly he attempts to squash, helping the class learn a valuable lesson about "karma express".

A film styled in the form of a silent film about a Chinese laundryman in turn-of-the-century New York who longs to return to his homeland, uses subtitles.

Deals with the efforts of Native Americans to preserve their culture in the face of that of the majority and the trials that often accompany the intersection of these two cultures.

"A-Alike" is the story of two brothers from opposite sides of the social spectrum.

A young wife's downward spiral is triggered by suspicions of her husband's infidelity.

Anna is in NY writing roach killer commercials while being infatuated with Marta a Barcelona based actress. Anna decides to get out of the closet and she does it to non other than to Marta's partner.

Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends the afternoon at Central Park's Sailboat lake and retrieves a remote control device left behind by a pair of sailboat racers. Back in the schoolyard, Tony pretends that he has a car to go with the remote control. When another boy tries to take the control from him, it falls on the ground and a red remote-control sports car miraculously appears. The car "dances" to rap music and even brings Tony a can of soda. One day, a sinister-looking man with a briefcase steals the car and flees into the subway. Tony and his classmates pursue the thief to the Wall Street area and ask to inspect the briefcases of passing businessmen. Eluding the students, the crook hails a taxi and hurls the briefcase from the window. Next morning, Tony hears the sound of a sports car during a church service. Returning to its rightful owner, the magical car mysteriously reappears at the end of the processional.

An mad, unhinged chef and his futile attempts at killing a cockroach in a restaurant kitchen. This film takes its cues from the giant-insect films of the 50's such as "Them!" (1954) and a nod in the direction of Kafka's "Metamorphosis."

Comedy concerning a young writer who places an ad in the personals section of the newspaper and gets a response.

Bolo McBane, a cowboy detective gets his first case watching over a dying woman's vegetable garden only to find that some things are just too hard to bury.