Ben Babbitt

Movies

The African Desperate
Music
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.
The Registry
Music
An elliptical, layered psychological horror that brings together multiple storylines which intersect in complex ways. Embedded within these narrative threads are topics salient to the documentary/non-fiction field: the afterlives of images of war and their fictional representation; the potential tokenization of subjects, stories, and makers by the industry; and the ethical dilemmas arising from the commercialization of the stock footage market.
Man Under Table
Ben
In an anachronistic dystopian landscape, a beleaguered young man attempts to navigate his way through the indie film scene in LA.
Paris Window
Music
Two siblings share an unhealthy life full of games and codes; however, their peaceful life is interrupted when a doppelgänger appears out of nowhere.
The Evening Broadcast
Director
A 30-minute broadcast from the public access station WEVP-TV. An accompaniment to "Un Pueblo De Nada," a short game made as an interlude in the episodic adventure game "Kentucky Route Zero" by Cardboard Computer.
The Evening Broadcast
Cyrano
A 30-minute broadcast from the public access station WEVP-TV. An accompaniment to "Un Pueblo De Nada," a short game made as an interlude in the episodic adventure game "Kentucky Route Zero" by Cardboard Computer.
Requests
Music
In a nightclub, reminiscent of a 1980s photo-novel, a band is playing requests. The texts play with pop clichés about life and true love. Until a dissatisfied customer can’t take it anymore and reveals the universal truth.