Movies: Azazel Jacobs

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last o...

Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girl...

When their father's health worsens, three estranged sisters come together to try to plan for the inevitable....

The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again....

Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal....

Kavya and Ani are a married couple. They live together, but are estranged from one another. They are both having long-standing extramarital affairs—she with Vikram and he with Nora....

Bound together by the voice of Lamont, a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-screen. Lamont uncovers a living and breathing New York City with his new found power. At the same tim...

In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house. An odd premise, but executed with skill and tenderness....

Hoping to improve his life, the temperamental Rodolfo Cano enlists in the Army. But when another Rodolfo Cano receives his sign-up orders, the two Rodolfos' lives collide -- with the first Rodolfo's girlfriend adding to the confusion....

An actual couple, Kirk Acevedo and Kerry Johnson perform (or perhaps manifest) the problems of being a couple....

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed....

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A most unusual love story unravels when the objects in a young man's pockets come to life....

A personal reflection of September 11th, 2001, combining documentary footage of lower Manhattan with voicemail messages left that morning....