Content from Columbia University School of the Arts

During a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, a young Wall Street investment banker and an old shoeshine man begin chatting and discussing their life philosophies.

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.

The 27 minute precursor to "Heavy" (1995) made under the mentorship of Miloš Forman, Mangold very focused on expression versus dialogue, especially in the character of Victor; Mangold stated that he was striving to create a "silent film, with sound." Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) and Martin Ritt's Hud (1963) served as specific influences.

A concert pianist falls in love with himself in this modern retelling of the Narcissus myth.

Deals with the efforts of Native Americans to preserve their culture in the face of that of the majority and the trials that often accompany the intersection of these two cultures.

It's a revenge scheme. It's a dessert topping! It's a revenge scheme. It's a dessert topping! Gosh darn it, it's both! Puffy, the world's most vengeful cat tries to break up its owner's marriage.

Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends the afternoon at Central Park's Sailboat lake and retrieves a remote control device left behind by a pair of sailboat racers. Back in the schoolyard, Tony pretends that he has a car to go with the remote control. When another boy tries to take the control from him, it falls on the ground and a red remote-control sports car miraculously appears. The car "dances" to rap music and even brings Tony a can of soda. One day, a sinister-looking man with a briefcase steals the car and flees into the subway. Tony and his classmates pursue the thief to the Wall Street area and ask to inspect the briefcases of passing businessmen. Eluding the students, the crook hails a taxi and hurls the briefcase from the window. Next morning, Tony hears the sound of a sports car during a church service. Returning to its rightful owner, the magical car mysteriously reappears at the end of the processional.

A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.

An mad, unhinged chef and his futile attempts at killing a cockroach in a restaurant kitchen. This film takes its cues from the giant-insect films of the 50's such as "Them!" (1954) and a nod in the direction of Kafka's "Metamorphosis."

Boy has a scary visit to the barber

After a rough, unsuccessful show at the club, a pitiful stand-up comedian goes to a convenience store in the middle of the night to get cigarettes, but only to desperately try to make a weary, Indian clerk laugh.

A young man is obssessed with a goldfish

Tells the story of a boy, a saxophone, and a rainy afternoon to show how the moments in one's life are usually small and often go unnoticed

A disturbed young man fantasizes about massacres and murdering.

A neurotic love story about a woman obsessed with a man who doesn’t love her.

Wall Street business executives Bowers and his assistant Lisa get stuck in an elevator where the lingo of commerce is transformed into the language of love.

This documentary tells of a man named John Vincent, who dreams of base jumping off the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City

Explores the fantasies of a young man obsessed with his ex-lover.

A young wife's downward spiral is triggered by suspicions of her husband's infidelity.

A comic story of a maestro, with a surprise in the end.