Movies: Ariel Setear

What we present to the world is a carefully curated version of reality. Girls Will Be is a powerful visual meditation on this topic, exploring the all too au courant themes of image obsession, social pressure, and shame. This "anti-fashion" fashion f...

When the Birch brothers inherit a failing funeral home from their decaying father, they must resort to unsavory means to save the family legacy....

Old memories and ghosts from the past resurface when a man reluctantly agrees to help his now-alcoholic childhood friend sober up over the course of a weekend....

A modern day short noir film about suspicion, centered entirely on two characters – an older woman and a younger man. Sylvia tries to get Jim to kill someone off for her, but he fails – and now he thinks he’s being followed....

In a sniper-threatened Los Angeles, a lone man's urgent quest for insulin intertwines with vivid memories, propelling him through a dangerous landscape where every step could be his last....