Feast of Burden

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.

Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. This sends him on a picaresque journey of interrogations and humiliations with the suburban losers he left behind. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks that make up our daily lives, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.

Kurt Kunkle, a rideshare driver thirsty for followers, has figured out a deadly plan to go viral. As his disturbing livestream is absurdly embraced by the social media hellscape, a comedian emerges as the only hope to stop him.

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

"A short lil' documentary I made about my family in late 2006, when I was ~20yo" - Eugene Kotlyarenko

A film about VR and who we are.

Eugene Kotlyarenko's long lost self released masterpiece.

Funny, twitchy portrait of a date derailed.

iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".

When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.