La primavera

This short documentary explores the 'difference' of Down syndrome. When Clark Kerns was born twenty-five years ago, the doctor told his parents that the baby could be institutionalized, and they would never have to see him again. Through interviews, the film explores this young man's fascination with two eternal outsiders, Sasquatch and Superman. Ultimately, this film is a celebration of the difference that Clark seeks to understand through his narrative obsessions.

We all suffer from this 'virus', it's an organic feeling of knowing something's not quite right, but because we've always done it 'this way', we continue to suffer through it even at the expense of our own health and well being. It causes us to carry out the edicts/orders of company policy even if we feel it's not right or doesn't set well with us. "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." Charles de Montesquieu

The Balinese cremation ceremony, or ngaben, has primarily been known in the West as either a major tourist attraction that dazzles visitors with the splendor, intricacy, and drama of its performance, or as fodder for long-standing anthropological arguments about person-hood and emotion on the island that debated whether or not Balinese people expressed, or even experienced, grief. According to Balinese Hindu beliefs, cremation is one of the most important steps in a person's spiritual life, and a heavy responsibility to the family, because it is through cremation that the physical body is returned to its five constituent elements and the soul is cleansed and released from the body to ascend to heaven and be reincarnated. "Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart" takes an impressionistic look at the ngaben from the perspective of a mourning son, Nyoman Asub, and reveals the intimacy, sadness, and tenderness at the core of this funerary ritual and the feeling and force that underlie an exquisite cultural tradition. Amidst ample historical, interpretive, and political takes on the cremation ceremony, the film purposefully provides a personal, impressionistic, and poetic glimpse of the process and the complex emotions involved.