top of page

Narrative Cinema

A lone man saunters along the parched Los Angeles river. Graffitied walls and discarded, lifeless rubbish and glass surround him. The lone man continues to wander, but seems to contemplate his own life and jots down his thoughts into a handheld notebook. Soon enough, the lone man goes through what seems to be a torturous process in which only he knows and eventually throws the notebook away for good.

When Life Begins and Ends Again depicts the close relationship between a young boy and his older brother. The younger brother laments and reminisces about the times he spent with his brother, whom he idolized and viewed as an important guiding figure in his life. The younger brother is witnessed to be bullied and harassed in his high school years and to fight back, he continues to live and work to make his dreams as a filmmaker come true.

Two families ride in the same car together and engage in a lively conversation. Two children, a young boy and a girl watch their families quarrel silently from the back of the car. Throughout the duration of the car ride, the two children tease and enjoy each other’s presence, as if they are transcending into another world. They let their minds roam and they imaginatively sit in a dreamy world together with a dancer performing for the two children. They snap back to reality when the family parks their car and they go into a church. El Escape was filmed at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television in 2004.

A young man searches along the outside of a church and rummages through a garden. He sees an open window and calls out for someone named Katie. A young nun approaches the window and tells the young man, Anthony, to go away. Anthony professes his love to her, but is soon interrupted by another nun who tells Katie to do her duties. Afterwards, Anthony proposes they run away together by train, in which Katie initially refuses. As Anthony begins to head towards the train station, Katie quickly changes her mind seeing that he is serious and immediately begins to go after him. The young couple elope together at the end.

  • LinkedIn
  • Grey Instagram Icon
  • Grey Vimeo Icon
  • Grey YouTube Icon
bottom of page