a sentimental audiovisual collage from december 2023

A short film by Jack McCoy.

Brilliant young teen, James Evens's newly created invention is a big secret: it’s a device that allows him to teleport large distances in a short span of time. An invention so classified he’s hiding it from his parents. Upon using the device, Evens learns that his new creation is physically harming him. While trying to fix that flaw in hopes to research a newly discovered planet, he realizes there’s a larger threat to his findings: a protective father and paranoid neighbor.

Two girls talk to each other for a long time.

Lewis Novak is a quiet mechanic who unexpectedly finds himself at a crossroads after his boss Russell ropes him into house-sitting his apartment. It isn’t long before an assassin comes knocking looking for Russell. Now Lewis must think on his feet in order to outwit a mysterious maintenance man and make it out of his boss’ apartment alive.

On the night before a pivotal decision, an obsessive poet reconnects with her past loves in order to discover the pattern behind her failed relationships.

A diary film comprised of images from 2024 and voicemails from 2011-2016. It is a film about regrets and isolation from those who used to be near and dear to me. The footage I can stare at, it's not from all that long ago. Those voices I can listen to now. But the faces who spoke those words I won't meet again.

Hekla, a determined Chicago actress, races through auditions, breakups, and self-doubt over the course of one chaotic day, risking her heart and career to claim her voice and step fully into the artist and woman she's meant to be.

Aileen, a struggling teacher who ride shares while her union resolves a strike. Her daughter is pregnant, her husband is ill. Life is drifting into a realm of uncertainty, and only her car frees her mind from the quarrels of everyday. But, one particular day becomes a sudden reminder of how danger and the unexpected is always one drive away.

A hikikomori girl falls in love with a woman who is secretly trying to turn her into a CRT.