Jorge Torres-Torres
2021Fuck the World
Jorge Torres-Torres
A dystopian southern sludge that transgresses even the gothic sensibilities that exist just below the surface of the social fabric of the deep Louisiana culture visible here. Following the sudden death of their friend Shep, Kristopher and Ryan quickly grow less attached to reality. As they wander the southern landscape of Louisiana, they descend into a state devoid of hope and order; a place where life and death are one and the same; a land where we are all doomed. The aesthetic artifacts of the video tapes and the vernacular wanderings caught on them present a rip-it-up-and-start-again style montage of life caught in the vise of western culture at the dead end of of the first world.
FTW
My Name Is Faith
Tiffany Sudela Junker, Jorge Torres-Torres
This is the story of a 12-year-old girl working hard to overcome a troubling past and accept and embrace the love and possibility that now surround her. Born as Brianna to a drug-addicted mother, she and her baby brother lived in harrowing conditions before being adopted by a young couple fully invested in raising their children to be whole, happy and strong.
My Name Is Faith
Shadow Zombie
Jorge Torres-Torres
Kim Filth
Kim lives with his dad, sells weed to skaters, writes poetry, and snorts painkillers to get through the day. One evening, while strolling through the subdivision painted up as his alter ego Shadow Zombie, Kim catches the eye of a registered nurse and part-time clown Brandi. What follows is a brief romance marked by destruction by the very real phantoms emanating from Kim's dead-end present and Brandi's traumatic past. Shooting under near-documentary conditions in and around Lafayette, Louisiana, Jorge Torres-Torres operates peopling his film with a coterie of genuine Acadiana misfits. The merciless and at times unexpectedly poignant observation of Kim's world dares to see through to the human core of a drug addict or clinically depressed clown.
Shadow Zombie
Madeline's Madeline
Josephine Decker
Helena Howard, Molly Parker
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Madeline's Madeline
Death Wish Revision
Jorge Torres-Torres
After a gang of lunatics murders his family, mild-mannered hombre Paul Kersey decides to avenge his family by killing all citizens, whether they are guilty or not. As the bodycount piles up, the authorities start sniffing around and that's when Paul takes a vow of silence and embarks on a 20-year-long killing spree, shedding the blood of the innocent across the land. Will the authorities be able to stop this madman in time to save the human race?? Edited together using over 250 films (including musical scores) and revised by JTT during the months of June-December in the year of our Lord, 2020, Death Wish Revision re-imagines the entire DW franchise as a multi-dimensional, cinematic tsunami, going where no revision has gone before...and then some!
Death Wish Revision
Night of the Rumpus
Jorge Torres-Torres
After a series of unsolved murders, the town prepares to begin its annual Halloween festivities, but still grief stricken from the tragedy, Alice attempts to join the celebration and is put on a path crossing with eccentric artist Yuri, a graduate student investigating the murders and the town misfit, Scary Jay, who is plotting something sinister. Meanwhile, in a nearby creek something is growing into a fleshy abomination that will turn this into a night...mare to remember.
Night of the Rumpus