01 / 05
THE INVISIBLE SYSTEM
LEGALLY
DRUGGED
The absurd but true story of Richie Schneeberg—and the invisible system that transformed his desire to protect his family into the very thing that destroyed it.
SCHEMATICS FOR AN ABSENTIAL CINEMATIC FUTURE
ABSENTIAL
CINEMA
Films built around the invisible absences that determine what is present.
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FIVE FILMS / FIVE ABSENCES
WHAT IS MISSING
IS STILL ACTING.
System. History. Presence. Future. Inheritance. Five projects, radically different in form, connected by the invisible forces shaping their characters and their worlds.
LEGALLY
02 / 05
THE INVISIBLE HISTORY
ALL ROADS LEAD TO
THE FIRE ESCAPE
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez becomes the living vessel for a disappearing cultural history—where Nuyorican poetry, the Black Arts Movement, and the origins of hip-hop remain powerfully present through absence.
03 / 05
THE INVISIBLE PRESENCE
SPIRITS OF
CONEY ISLAND
In the Afterdeath, grief, memory, ancestral power and displacement remain active forces—binding the living, the dead and Coney Island itself.
BARON SATURDAYGuide to the Afterdeath
PAPA LEGBATrickster Gatekeeper
DUNThe Blind Seer
AYEZANThe Mother of Knowledge
04 / 05
THE INVISIBLE FUTURE
AFTERMATH
A dying assassin travels from a devastated 2067 to recruit a grieving father into a plan to accelerate humanity's extinction—believing mankind's end is the last radical act of compassion.
TRANSMEDIA / IP
THE FUTURE ISN'T COMING.
The film expands into a novel and a planned five-film theatrical universe.
05 / 05
THE INVISIBLE INHERITANCE
HARLEM'S
LAST POET
Abiodun Oyewole’s life becomes a confrontation with cultural memory, artistic survival, and the disappearing lineage that helped make hip-hop possible.
“Some men serve time. Abiodun made time serve him.”
AUDIO VISUAL TERRORISM
WE STUDY
WHAT'S MISSING.
Audio Visual Terrorism develops independent cinema at the intersection of political imagination, philosophy, cultural memory and genre. Absential Cinema is the organizing idea: reveal the invisible forces audiences already feel before the culture has learned how to name them.
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