The New Ché of Havana
Directed and edited by: Bryan Chang + Alex MallisProduced by: Allison PottaschCinematography: Bryan Chang A Cuban skateboarder and artist must reconcile looming changes and a nascent free-market economy with his desire to continue operating his tattoo shop – currently illegal in Havana. Vimeo Staff PickFeatured in The AtlanticFeatured in Huck MagazineFeatured in RemezclaPodcasted on NoFilmSchool
Raising Baby Grey
Directed by: Alex MallisProduced by: Alex Mallis + Sascha WeissEdited by Lorena AlvaradoDP: Eric Phillips-HorstOriginal Music: Eliot KrimskyExecutive Producers: Matt O’Neill + Perri PeltzCompany: DCTV After two parents decide to raise their baby as gender neutral, they discover that gender-creative parenting comes with its own set of worries and challenges. Essay in The New Yorker
Song of Clouds
A haunting visual fever dream. Simultaneously, a meditation on the afterlife; the journey to the otherworld and what gets left behind among the living; and the pain and yearning of return.
The Image You Missed
A film between Donal Foreman & Arthur MacCaig.Written, directed, edited & produced by Dónal ForemanExecutive produced by Nicole Brenez & Philippe Grandrieux An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique […]
I Don’t Need To Know You
I Don’t Need To Know You explores cruising in Cataluña, Spain. This process of searching for sexual encounters in public places such as parks, beaches has traditionally been viewed in the context of male homo- sexuality. I Don’t Need To Know You ventures further in an attempt to reveal and understand the complexity of motivations and […]
My Own Wings
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with “both” sexes but born with a variation from the standard of […]
Public Money
Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called “participatory budgeting”, wherein community members gain a role in deciding how to spend part of a public budget. Following the process over one year in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park—a multicultural neighborhood […]
Sustainable Barbuda
A short documentary on food security in the small island state of Barbuda. co-director/editor/cinematographer
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu MergiaShort FilmComing 2021 Directed by Lorena Alvarado & Adam GolferEditor: Lorena AlvaradoDP: Adam GolferProducer: Jessica BeshirColor: Cédric von NiederhäusernSound Design: Luciana Foglio Translations: Menbere Awoke, Jessica BeshirMusic by Hailu Mergia: Courtesy of Awesome Tapes from AfricaThank you to Hailu Mergia and the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective
Two Sunsets
“Two Sunsets” (2020) is an experimental film essay, framed by 2 photographs of a sunset Golfer discovered in a box of his dad’s belongings, 10 years after his death. The mysterious provenance of the 2 pictures permeates the film in multiple imagined conversations unfurling across time and space: between Golfer’s cousin (a 24 year-old recovering […]
