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Last Kiss (2017) and Casa Grande (2016) are narrative short films I worked on as writer, director, producer, composer and editor. I’ve created 28 narrative shorts, but believe these two best achieve the aim of the short form.

Last Kiss exists in a larger series of shorts I made that take place between 1929 and 1999, each film taking place in the final year of its respective decade. The others include First Date, The Spring of ‘49, The Summer of ‘59, The Fall of ‘69, The Winter of ‘79, Poets, and Two People. These are dramas with subtle but intentional overlaps in casting, theme, and set pieces, creating unknown ties between characters across films.

They’re a part of a broader effort of mine as a director to create a filmography I call “Americana Inverted”, exploring an underbelly of desperation, coercion, and the challenges of social cohesion.

Casa Grande is a prologue or epilogue to all of this, pairing well with my more surrealist music videos Eaten (2023) and Commercial (2024).