Movies: Jason Giampietro

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides....

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks....

A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in '90s suburban New Jersey....

Over mushroom barley soup and ketchup laden kasha two educators in a New York diner complain about being abused at school. When the conversation turns to Trump an opportunity for a history quiz arises....

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discov...

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

On the day before leaving New York for graduate school in a Iowa, a writer's plan to spend a romantic day at Rockaway Beach with a woman he's secretly dating is disrupted by an oddball surfer....

Rudy has a bad pain near his groin and the people in his life are making him feel even worse....

A painter charms an elusive young woman while bicycling in Brooklyn....

An abandoned bicycle in a narrow hallway ruins an anxious New Yorker's summer, while his shifty friend hopes to stave off eviction from a charity foundation's apartment by getting hired as a pizza deliveryman....

An abstract portrait painter is enchanted by a woman whose images he discovers after buying a laptop from a shadester in a city park....

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies....

In Giampietro’s comic latest, some friends’ dinner conversation about the impending NFL Draft becomes a frank discussion of the state of race relations within the league and amongst its fans....

Faces, voices, light: language itself is rendered abstract in this impressionistic fugue about fraught interpersonal dynamics at a weekly social engagement, narrated in retrospect by an exasperated fellow guest....

Upsets abound when a movie-obsessed firefighter hosts an Academy Awards viewing party....

A New Yorker comes to regret betting on the 2016 election....

A lonely New Yorker pines for connections - both human and digital - during the city's COVID-19 shutdown....

A lonely musician films his life in the hopes of enticing a woman from Boise, Idaho to visit him in New Jersey....