Known for Art
Birthplace
Portland, Maine, USA
Filmography
15 films


The Wedding Banquet
2025 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.


Fancy Dance
2024 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.


Theater Camp
2023 · 1h 33m
country: United States
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.


The Last Manhunt
2022 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President Taft coming to the area, the local sheriff leads two Native American trackers seeking justice for their “murdered” tribal leader.


Driveways
2020 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can't relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with the widowed old man from next door.


The Art of Self-Defense
2019 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.


Madeline's Madeline
2018 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.


Nancy
2018 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.


Collective: Unconscious
2016 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?


Black Soil, Green Grass
2016 · 18m
country: United States
A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.
My First Kiss and the People Involved
My First Kiss and the People Involved
2016 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
Sam doesn’t speak; she hums with the trees and the cracks in the walls. When her caregiver mysteriously disappears from the group home, Sam steps into the world to find her.


The Fits
2016 · 1h 12m
country: United States
While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in, she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.


Hide Your Smiling Faces
2014 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.
Bedford Park Boulevard
Bedford Park Boulevard
2010 · 13m
country: United States
A fifteen-year-old Latino boy at a high school in the Bronx makes a mistake that will define the rest of his life.