Eugene Kotlyarenko
2021Lowlands
Russell Sadeghpour
Sophia Flot-Warner, Russell Sadeghpour
A collection of disjointed vignettes follows a self-important writer on a hike, a lost driver re-routed away from the hospital, a philosopher in search of the best Chinese food, a couch-surfer on a midnight joyride, a spirited conspiracy theorist, and other young urban wanderers in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles.
Lowlands
SkyDiver
Eugene Kotlyarenko
Sophia Amoruso, Anna Ayeroff
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
We Are
Eugene Kotlyarenko
Keith Poulson, Dasha Nekrasova
When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?
We Are
A Wonderful Cloud
Eugene Kotlyarenko
Kate Lyn Sheil, Eugene Kotlyarenko
When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.
A Wonderful Cloud
0s & 1s
Eugene Kotlyarenko
Ahna O'Reilly, Alexi Wasser
Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.
0s & 1s
