Dustin Guy Defa

The Show About the Show

Caveh Zahedi

Caveh Zahedi, Dustin Guy Defa

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.

Heart of a Dog

Laurie Anderson

Archie, Gatto

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

Joel Potrykus

Joel Potrykus, Ashley Young

Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.

Person to Person

Dustin Guy Defa

Bene Coopersmith, Deragh Campbell

Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.

Family Nightmare

Dustin Guy Defa

A dizzy trip through the mid-1990s with a dysfunctional American family. Reliving a distracted child's birthday party, an emotionless wedding, a Halloween in a garage and a Christmas marked with alcohol, drugs and perversion, the film is a crumpled letter from a filmmaker to his family: a shattered kaleidoscope of the destructive patterns that have trapped and wounded its members.

Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman

Dustin Guy Defa

Hannah Gross, Josh Safdie

A young woman invites a vagabond to stay the night at her house but her feelings of insecurity threaten to overshadow the visit.

Open Five 2

Kentucker Audley

Kentucker Audley, Caroline White

A relationship drama set amid a winter van trip from New York to New Orleans. A loose continuation of the 2010 film.

Dramatic Relationships

Dustin Guy Defa

Bingham Bryant, Lindsay Burdge

Scenes from the working life of a male director: Defa sophisticatedly lampoons masculinity in filmmaking with this sly, surprising meta-movie. (Courtesy of Film Society of Lincoln Center.)

Swim Little Fish Swim

Ruben Amar, Lola Bessis

Dustin Guy Defa, Brooke Bloom

Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.

Hermia & Helena

Matías Piñeiro

Agustina Muñoz, Mati Diop

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

Person to Person

Dustin Guy Defa

Abbi Jacobson, Майкл Сера

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

Entertainment

Rick Alverson

Gregg Turkington, Tye Sheridan

Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.

The Adults

Dustin Guy Defa

Майкл Сера, Hannah Gross

Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.

Red Flag

Alex Karpovsky

Alex Karpovsky, Dustin Guy Defa

Writer/director/star Alex Karpovsky, a familiar face to indie filmgoers, reveals his sterling comic chops in this close-to-the-bone comedy. Teasing the line between fiction and reality, he plays an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour screening his movie on college campuses and independent cinemas.

Bad Fever

Dustin Guy Defa

Kentucker Audley, Eléonore Hendricks

A humorless loner attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club.

Summer of Blood

Onur Tukel

Onur Tukel, Anna Margaret Hollyman

Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.