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After his mother dies, a distraught young man visits his estranged uncle in a lonely seaside village to determine what to do with the fortune she left behind.

In the unforgiving wilderness, a young man must choose between saving his ailing father or his own family as a deadly snowstorm engulfs their migrating tribe.

A group of pigs are raised peacefully in a monastery when, one day, one of them finds out the truth behind their existence. Thus he decides to free his friends.

Is it possible for our crazy world to be cured of its own madness?

Elemental, a silent film, addresses the transitioning of the body in form and matter. After enduring lifelong genetic illnesses and a Category 5 hurricane that destroyed my family’s home and business, I sought peace, acceptance, beauty, and connectedness in life, death, the forces of nature, and the Cosmos. This work emerged from trauma, from the recognition of reorientation and survival. I believe nothing is destroyed by nature, but continually enveloped and recreated by it.The film includes universal natural patterning found in the coastal landscape of North Florida superimposed with fleeting images of my medical symptoms and hurricane damage that impacted my family. Seeing the relationship between our bodies and the Cosmos has been a healing force in my life.

In a small village in post-liberation Bulgaria, when public executions were a grim spectacle, the always cheerful executioner Bogomil finds himself entangled in a web of passion and betrayal.