Movies: Jason Grisell

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection....

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....

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret....

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

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

The movie follows Nate, an emerging performance artist, who finally gets a coveted show at a Manhattan gallery, but right when he begins his provocative piece, the entire city shuts down for COVID-19. Unswayed, he locks himself in the white cube spac...

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....

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

In this Dadaist love story there are many recurring themes: death and rebirth, multiple identities and doppelgangers, false prophets, love and love lost, the corruption of power and fragility of what is real or true. Using a recreation of Marcel Duch...

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....

Brad Christian is visited by a fan of his old magic tutorial DVDs...