Zero Trans Fat Productions
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Pioneer
The most epic bedtime story since "1,001 Nights," David Lowery's PIONEER is both a magnificent odyssey and a powerful metaphor for the meaning of family and fatherhood. Singer/songwriter/actor Will Oldham is the blue-collar dad who, in a hushed storybook voice, recounts the story of how he met...Watch Movie
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Her Wilderness
An elliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened. Both wildly operatic and quietly mysterious, while blending memory with fantasy, HER WILDERNESS is a portrait of four women wondering just how much power they wield in...Watch Movie
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My Daily Routine
It is all in the title. MY DAILY ROUTINE is a playful visual diary of filmmaker David Lowery's days, from waking in the morning to turning in at night, when his racing mind refuses to let him sleep without working over a new creative project or reading until the wee hours. It...Watch Movie
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Audrey the Trainwreck
Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life. Until he meets Stacy, a fellow working stiff who disarms him by speaking the language of his loneliest moments. Featuring a score by acclaimed jazz composer...Watch Movie
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Easy
Daniel Laabs' loose, impressionistic, yet psychologically and thematically rich short centers on two close-knit Texas brothers. The older, Adam, is well on his way to maturity with an affectionate girlfriend and a thoughtful, self-confident manner. All of which is something of a mystery to...Watch Movie
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A Catalog of Anticipations
A woman drifts back to childhood memories of rural Texas where her discovery of the jawbone of a horse in a field leads to a fascination with, in her own words, "dead things." Her natural history collection of insects and bones takes on a supernatural quality when she finds...Watch Movie
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Tiger Tail in Blue
Chris, a young newlywed, waits tables all night and writes novels all day, obsessing over what little past he has to reflect on. His wife Melody, a high school English teacher, is in love with him, though his lifestyle poses a financial burden. The two work opposing schedules...Watch Movie
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Bob Birdnow's Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self
When invited by an old friend to speak to a struggling sales team at a conference, Bob Birdnow reluctantly agrees. Bob's attempt to say something motivational takes an unexpected turn when, forced off script and desperate, he begins the one story he'd hoped he'd never have to...Watch Movie
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St. Nick
When ST. NICK premiered at SXSW in 2009, it announced the arrival of Dallas-based filmmaker David Lowery as a storyteller and image-maker to watch. An intimate portrait of two young runaways wandering the beautiful and desolate landscape of East Texas, ST. NICK drops us into a lonely world seen...Watch Movie
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Some Analog Lines
David Lowery had been making short films for a few years when he took a step back. "I decided that I really needed to dedicate myself to what I wanted to do as a filmmaker and what was important to me," he explained, and so he turned his camera back on himself and his work to...Watch Movie
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8
On the anniversary of her father's death, a young girl spends the day celebrating his memory (and making sure she retains those memories) with her widowed mother. Writer/co-director Julie Gould and her daughter play themselves, more or less, in what is nonetheless not a documentary but a...Watch Movie
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Two Story
An anonymous man and woman slowly weave in and out of the various rooms of a two story loft, never speaking and always eclipsing each other. The ambiguity of their relationship forces the viewer to question the meaning of their presence in the home, as well as the cyclical nature of relationships...Watch Movie
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Hohokam
After the welcome distraction of a visit from her over-the-top gay BFF (Danny Rhodes), it's back to normal everyday life for Lori (Allison Latta). Suddenly, all her dissatisfactions bubble to the surface: work (a routine office job) is boring; her finances aren't ideal; and, overnight,...Watch Movie
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Quietly on By
We first encounter Aaron (Anthony J. Baker) in the midst of a full-on screaming, crying freakout more appropriate to a tantrum-throwing toddler than a grown adult. As we gradually learn, life is not going as planned for Aaron (if, indeed, there ever was a plan in the first place). He's back...Watch Movie
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Present Company
Writer/director Frank V. Ross plays the leading role in this Illinois-shot independent film but it is hardly a vanity project. In fact, his protagonist Buddy has a personality that is room-clearing like a noxious gas. He's the kind of guy who can escalate just about any innocuous conversation...Watch Movie
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sleet/snow
Robert and Marian take a day-trip in order to pick up a painting he's bought from a rural artist. Forced to stay overnight when the artist is a no-show, the two circumnavigate the unspoken tensions in a relationship that is platonic, or at least has been, so far. Daniel Laabs' first film, made...Watch Movie
