Joe Wakeman

A spectral reimagining of Peg Entwistle’s fateful leap from the Hollywoodland sign in 1932. Bathed in grain and twilight melancholy, this speculative docudrama refracts the last moments of a forgotten starlet into a haunted meditation on fame, failure, and the myth-making machinery of American cinema. A celluloid séance in nine minutes.

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At a jazz party in Berlin near the end of the Weimar era, actress Cornelia tells concerned moralist Fabian about her latest UFA film role.

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Night Portraiture was a series of experiments in improvised filmmaking, created during the hours between 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. across various New York locales (Gowanus, Kensington, the subway system) in 2013. In semi-somnambulistic altered states, the artists play out scenes inspired by the night, the city, and found objects along the way. This eight-minute edit, recut by the filmmakers in 2021, comprises scenes from the first Night Portraiture. (Screened 2/17/22 at MoMA as part of Millennium Film Workshop: “Nighttime” NYC event).

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A series of tableaux depicting the follies of a group of naïve Marxist would-be radicals who think that they want to be revolutionaries, but in the final analysis, what they really want is to be seen wearing berets.

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Trouble ensues when a gang invades a library.

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Color 16mm Screen Test of Kate Mohanty, Saxophone player.

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At a jazz party in Berlin near the end of the Weimar era, actress Cornelia tells concerned moralist Fabian about her latest UFA film role.

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Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.

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A series of tableaux depicting the follies of a group of naïve Marxist would-be radicals who think that they want to be revolutionaries, but in the final analysis, what they really want is to be seen wearing berets.

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An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.

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A group of Staten Island radicals lead by ex-philosophy student Marie and her boozy filmmaker boyfriend Nick attempt to kidnap the CEO of the Leo Corporation but instead accidentally capture Daniel, a nutty small time accountant. With Daniel in custody at their commune, several of the radicals attempt to 'revolutionize the bedroom', an endeavor further complicated by a surprise visit from Marie's tough boy ex-lover Junior.

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Eliza (Breanne Zill) is a head-in-clouds painter struggling with her art, sexuality, and sleep paralysis. She invites cocky painter Claude (Josef Wakeman) over to shake things up but things get strange when he interprets her manic yearnings as an invitation for sex.

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Serial killer 'NO1KNOWS' managed to elude the police for years. In fact they didn't even know he existed until, by chance, his video and audio recordings were found. By examining the recordings police were able to solve a number of murders around the world - although many men featured in the recordings were never found and it is unclear how many other victims there were since most of the video and audio recordings were destroyed (presumedly by NO1KNOWS himself).

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A series of tableaux depicting the follies of a group of naïve Marxist would-be radicals who think that they want to be revolutionaries, but in the final analysis, what they really want is to be seen wearing berets.

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Trouble ensues when a gang invades a library.

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