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Tom E. Brown wrote and directed IFC short film favorites Das Clown, Don't Run Johnny, and Rubber Gloves, IFC's first film to stream online.
The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.
A short, screwy, sometimes haunting mock experimental film, "Rubber Gloves" is Tom E. Brown's twisted take on the social, physical, and mental consequences of living with AIDS.
The tale of an old man and the clown doll he brings to life. Told like an old-fashioned educational slide show.
A peculiar man goes to great lengths to get closure.