Kathleen Beeler

Night Passage is a digital film on friendship and death. Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenji's classic novel, Milky Way Railroad, the story evolves around the spiritual journey of a young woman, in the company of her best friend and a little boy, into a world of rich in-between realities. Their venture into and out of the land of "awakened dreams" occurs during a long ride on a night train. The filmmaker elegantly depicts each encounter in two-dimensional space with a unique artistic gesture and ingeniously frames the passage as a series of rhythmic image sequensces as seen through the window of a train.

1805年。ナポレオンがヨーロッパを支配しています。 イングランドだけが彼に抵抗します。 これらはナポレオン戦争の時代であり、現在、海と海は重要かつ戦略的な戦場になっています。 大西洋では、「ラッキー」ジャックオーブリー（カラス）がキャプテンを務めるイギリスの軍艦サプライズが、それよりはるかに上位の敵軍艦に突然攻撃されます。 オーブリーは記憶に残る決定を下します：サプライズと外科医スティーブンマトゥリン（ベタニー）を含む彼女の忠実な乗組員が被った深刻な損害にもかかわらず、彼は2つの海を渡って航海し、敵を迎撃して捕まえることにしました。 これは、海の向こう側に彼を連れて世界の反対側に連れて行く追跡で、国家の運命を決定するか、キャプテンと彼の乗組員を破壊することができるミッションです。

5年前、相棒のKとともに地球の危機を救ったJは、いまやMIBのエリート捜査官。日常業務を淡々とこなす平穏な毎日を送っていた。しかし、そんな彼の前に新たな敵が出現した。地球上では下着のモデルとして活躍している超セクシー宇宙人のサーリーナに、なんとMIB本部が占拠されてしまう。一人助かったJが頼れるのは、現在は引退している元相棒のKだけ。ところが、郵便局員となったKは完全に平和ボケ状態。しかもエージェント時代の記憶をきれいに消されていた。果たして、Kは記憶を取り戻し、敏腕エージェントとしてJとともに地球を救うことができるのか？

Portraying the Vietnamese immigrant experience through Kieu, A Tale of Love follows the quest of a woman in love with Love. Voyeurism runs through the history of narrative and is here one of the threads that structure the film. Playing with the fiction of love in love stories, the film invites a different experience of cinema with non-naturalistic acting and layered interaction of performed reality, memory and imagination.

A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him?

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting.

"MORGAN’S CAKE is the story of a young man (Morgan Schmidt-Feng) about to turn 18, and all the problems that are set to befall him. His girlfriend is pregnant, he’s just lost his job, his mother is deserting him for a career move to New York City, and his divorced dad (Willie Boy Walker) can barely afford the small office space in which they live. Morgan’s most pressing problem is whether or not to register for the draft, and Walker, in a bravura performance, shares a real-life story of how he avoided military service in the late 1960’s. After a series of fateful encounters, Morgan finally saves his sanity by baking a cake." (from Fandor.com)

A taxi driver and his expecting girlfriend find their lives disrupted by the arrival of an Irish literary maverick.

Michael Mikaele is a young man in a catatonic state living in a psychiatric ward where his doctor thinks her sympathies for him justify raping him. It's all part of his mad world, and we see what brought him there. He's an artist from a broken home, working for eight years at a job that he loathes, drawing pictures from sayings on sexually suggestive T-shirts. Mike's unsympathetic boss, Bill, plays bad motivational tapes over the P.A., makes Mike's girlfriend (another employee) handle him during office hours, which is espied by co-worker Joni, and refuses to let Mike have the rest of the day off even though he is clearly ill. He ties together T-shirts out the bathroom window to escape, and befriends a man, Rod, whom, unbeknownst to him, is his girlfriends father. He, however, hallucinates that the cinematographer is walking around the apartment in nothing but a towel...

Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent, follows and soon comes in contact with the "new dark ages" of 1984. Juxtapositions of "on-the street" interviews (by Willie Boy Walker), punk performances by bands Flipper and The Mutants, TV shows of past-life hypnotism and nuclear destruction, and a crazed ex-con all finally intermix with the characters' own sagas.

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.

A photographer and mother tries to balance career and motherhood.