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Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this highly controversial and experimental film. Machetero is an allegorical narrative that follows French journalist Jean Dumont, to a New York prison where he interviews Pedro Taino, a so-called "Puerto Rican Terrorist". Pedro is a self-described Machetero fighting to free Puerto Rico from the yoke of United States colonialism. He is obsessed with freedom, freedom for his country, his people and for himself. Jean questions Pedro about his decisions to use violence as a means to achieve that freedom. Jean utilizes a global perspective in questioning Pedro, referencing examples of achieving his goals through more peaceful means. However Jean soon finds that Pedro is well versed in liberation struggles from around the world and their debate over the use of violence as a catalyst for change escalates. As Jean and Pedro speak, another story unfolds. A ghetto youth grows up in the streets doing what he has to do to survive. The ghetto youth crosses paths with Pedro who sees the potential in him. Pedro tries to provide the means for him to grow into the next generation of Machetero by giving him a pamphlet he wrote called the Anti-Manifesto. The ghetto youth reads the Anti-Manifesto and it reawakens a revolutionary spirit instilled in him from childhood by a mentor in Puerto Rico. The ghetto youth develops into a young rebel driven by the cause to liberate his people. As Jean and Pedro's debate rages on, the cycle of violence that begins in the exploitation and subjugation of imperialism becomes complete in the life of another ghetto youth turned revolutionary. Machetero is about terrorism and terrorists, how they are defined and by whom. It is a film that asks us to challenge the way in which we view the events that play out in the world. It is a film about the cyclical nature of violence that is perpetuated by those who choose to oppress and those who no longer wish to be oppressed.

Dune, a mysterious old man who wanders around Coney Island has found that he is quantumly entangled with a group of Voodoo spirits also known as Loa. Papa Legba, the Loa who acts as an intermediary between worlds, believes the time of the Loa is coming to an end and tries to convince his friend, Baron Saturday, who is the Loa of the afterlife. When Ayizan, the Loa of the marketplace and wife of Papa Legba hears about it she scoffs at the idea. Using philosophy and physics Dune settles the matter for them once and for all but does so, spookily, at a distance, from across time and space.

Jack discovers a sideshow attraction doll in the attic and begins to experience memories he cannot recollect as his own, and soon finds himself on the brink of madness.

Laila wants Papa Legba the Voodoo Loa to force an evil real estate developer named Fred Christ to atone for crimes that led to the death of Laila and her family in Coney Island.

Coney Island is dead but doesn't know it - Papa Legba, the trickster Loa, tortures him for being a relic of a bygone era with the death of his daughter and Baron Saturday the Loa of the underworld guides him gently into the afterdeath - BARON SATURDAY OF CONEY ISLAND is a film about the last days of an epoch in Coney Island, in Brooklyn, and in New York Shitty.

Abiodun Oyewole is known the world over as a member of the revolutionary group The Last Poets. What the world doesn't know is how Abiodun went from being a revolutionary poet to a revolutionary.

Shot during the early days of the pandemic lock down In NYC and incorporating the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, INTO THE AFTERMATH is as much a document of 2020 as it is a work of speculative science fiction - A global pandemic has shut down New York City and Black Lives Matter protesters are clashing with police in the streets, while Omar fruitlessly struggles to find a test kit for his wife, Carla who may be infected by a deadly virus transmitted by language. Unable to find a test kit Carla convinces Omar that she has the virus and is going to die but wants to do it on her own terms. Those terms include a fair amount of danger that they try and protect their daughter, Alexis from, but Alexis has her own ideas.

Shot during the early days of the pandemic lock down In NYC and incorporating the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, INTO THE AFTERMATH is as much a document of 2020 as it is a work of speculative science fiction - A global pandemic has shut down New York City and Black Lives Matter protesters are clashing with police in the streets, while Omar fruitlessly struggles to find a test kit for his wife, Carla who may be infected by a deadly virus transmitted by language. Unable to find a test kit Carla convinces Omar that she has the virus and is going to die but wants to do it on her own terms. Those terms include a fair amount of danger that they try and protect their daughter, Alexis from, but Alexis has her own ideas.

An experimental, anti-narrative, cinematic tone poem for those of us lost, unsure and comfortable living within that dialectic.