Welcome to Serendipity
A very cleverly constructed work. Remembering a brief visual at the opening of the film becomes a critical revelation and explanation of what has transpired throughout Maya's sojourn in this...
Morgan Schmidt-Feng
Filmography
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My Bounty Hunter
An old man, Jefé, is on the run from the law, holed up in an old adobe house on the outskirts of Death Valley Junction. Two dot.com-ers decide to hunt him down, to grab publicity for their fledgling website launch of www.bountyhunter.com. It is never clear what exactly Jefé is...Watch Movie
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Chetzemoka's Curse
Only the second American Dogme 95 movie, CHETZEMOKA'S CURSE is about a young, twenty-something woman, Maya (Maya Berthoud), who is haunted by the memory of her first love and her subsequent betrayal. She still feels the pain, works to exorcise it as she wiles away her life as...Watch Movie
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Crash My Funeral
CRASH MY FUNERAL is a surreal comedy about a scriptwriter's block. In an attempt to pull his movie back on track he employs drastic measures; trying out impossible dialogue on a pizza delivery man, wandering around the neighborhood to scare up new characters and scenes, hoping...Watch Movie
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Sun and Moon
Thrown out of his crash pad after traveling the West Coast, a young man, David (Yahn Soon), hits the streets without money or direction. Fortunately a little girl (Maya Aguayo Schmidt-Feng), points him to a rooftop where other homeless people have crashed. There he's mistaken for another "David"...Watch Movie
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Loneliness Is Soul
Two young women (Meeka Schmalle and Jessica Heidt) rent an Oakland apartment where an itinerate musician (John Balquist) occasionally crashes. His presence in the household acts like a truth serum, somehow suddenly prompting everyone, including a strange "gift-giver"...Watch Movie
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Maisy's Garden
In MAISY'S GARDEN an over-achieving lawyer (played by Michael Bolgatz) is given the opportunity to retreat to his small garden and take a pause... examine his hectic life, and the collapse of his marriage. During the six-day shoot he had the opportunity to replay his real-life breakup and...Watch Movie
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Welcome to Serendipity
An "A-Type" business woman, Maya (Irene Barnett) hitchhikes her way to a ghost town in Death Valley after a fatal car crash, and grows more impatient by the day as the repair of her VW "Bug" drags on. During this forced vacation she gets to know the town's few inhabitants,...Watch Movie
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Recent Reviews
Loneliness Is Soul
This was interesting enough that I wanted to watch the entire film. I liked the reality stories and the improv dialogue. It seemed to get off an unforeseen track throughout--where...
Sun and Moon
Yes....I loved it=. Jason Sibert.
Crash My Funeral
cool surreal comedy. It makes you think. At times it lost me so I had to come back a day later and finish it. It takes certain state of mind...