Eugene Kotlyarenko
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.
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.
A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.
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.
"A short lil' documentary I made about my family in late 2006, when I was ~20yo" - Eugene Kotlyarenko
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.