AFTER LIFE 2016 is an experimental film by New York City based multidisciplinary artist Peter Welch. Best described as a personal travelogue without dialogue or interviews, the film examines various locales and iconography within the United States during a politically charged year in an attempt to better understand the country as it is presently.

A couple spends their last married day together.

Skindiving observes an introverted woman in the process of escaping from a manipulative relationship and starting her life anew. However the tranquility she finds in this transition is peppered with interruptions from her past, which she cannot easily escape.

In a city where everyone is guaranteed a soulmate, Verena's younger sister goes missing. In order to find her, Verena must uncover the truth behind the "Lifematch" system and what that means for her relationship with her own soulmate. 

We observe a group of friends at a villa in the south of France, hanging around in a state of lethargy, boredom and indifference. As the story unfolds more and more people start to vanish, only to be found dead in the water and re-appear as underwater ghosts thrashing around in the depths at night, alongside an ever-present pool-robot, slinking around underwater mysteriously.

“iORGAN” is the consolidation of the choreographic project “Illusions of Self”. This extension aims to physicalize the conversation that happens between the body and the “I”. The active dialog between the body and the constructed ideas of self (“I”). How the interaction of this duality produces a gap in which the transduction of physical movement is seen as behavioral patterns. Furthermore, my methodologies conjunct Eastern philosophies and dance in order to create a space for transformation in which the experience of nothingness is found. An ontological outlook to dance to transcend the conceptions of this form and allow for an experience of consciousness to arise.

"ENGROSSING & DISTURBINGLY REAL ..."
Cut Common, the New Generation of Classical Music

"HIGH VOLTAGE MUSIC! A BEAUTIFULLY, POIGNANTLY CONSTRUCTED & BRILLIANTLY REALIZED NEW OPERA!" - Fanfare

"GROUNDBREAKING ... A GREAT 21st CENTURY OPERA" - RANDY NEWMAN

With THE WEB OPERA, composer Michael Roth has assembled a team of progressive artists led by director Kate Jopson to create something completely new - an episodic through-sung web series based on true events, a groundbreaking experiment in music, film, and new opera, recognized by 29 film festivals. THE WEB OPERA tells of a group of college freshmen and the invasion of privacy that forever changes a young man's life. THE WEB OPERA also encourages and supports via its website suicide prevention and the fight against cyber abuse.

* - As of January, 2021, THE WEB OPERA has been honored by 29 film festivals - an official selection at the LOS ANGELES EXPERIMENTAL DANCE & MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL (LA screening, 2/6/20), Toronto's CYRUS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Semi-Finalist), New York's IndieBOOM Festival (Winner, Best Music), the BEST SHORTS COMPETITION (Award of Merit; Humanitarian Award Finalist), INDIE SHORT FEST/LA, Australia's INTERNATIONAL SHORTS FESTIVAL, LA's INDEPENDENT SHORTS FESTIVAL, the WEB SERIES FESTIVAL GLOBAL, LOS ANGELES CINEFEST (semi-finalist, Best Web Series), ROME INDEPENDENT PRISMA AWARDS (semi-finalist, Best Web Series), SHORT, TIGHT & LOOSE GLOBAL FILM FESTIVAL (Award of Excellence-Original Concept), KESARI MOVIE AWARDS and AFTER HOUR (Best Television & Web Media); in addition to Awards of Merit from the ONE REELER SHORT FILM COMPETITION, online screenings from UK's LIFT OFF SESSIONS, New York's LIFT-OFF GLOBAL NETWORK, Tokyo’s LIFT OFF FESTIVAL, the HOLLYWOOD FIRST TIME FILMMAKER SHOWCASE, Honorable Mentions from LA's EXPERIMENTAL FORUM, UNDERGROUND FILM FORUM and the SANTA MONICA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Best Web Series from MOODY CRAB FEST and REDWOOD SHORTS & SCRIPTS, virtual screenings from GREAT LAKES FESTIVAL (Best Experimental/nominee), ALEXANDER VALLEY FESTIVAL (Best Short/nominee), CUTTING EDGE (Experimental Short-Finalist), GLOBAL MONTHLY ONLINE (winner, Best Short, Best Music Direction, Best Cinematography), Chicago's BLOW-UP ARTHOUSE FILMFEST and Best Experimental Short from London's INDIE SHORT 24 FRAMES FESTIVAL.

Featuring performances by Reuben Uy, Adam Von Almen, Stephanie Cecile Yavelow, Molly Connor, Joyce Lai and Loren Battley, directed by Kate Jopson, with texts by Kate Gale and additional texts by Michael Roth, filmed by DP Dana Fytelson with dazzling visual graphics by Lisa Glenn Armstrong, Yiyi Shao, and Christopher Gaal/Crazybridge Studios, and filmed as if seen via the cameras and webcams in a laptop, iPhone, or iPad, this story about the violation of privacy invites the viewer to violate the privacy of the characters themselves while viewing it.

Composer Randy Newman calls THE WEB OPERA 'groundbreaking ... a great 21st century opera, full of fine things and remarkably accessible. It is also an important story told very very well.'

And THE WEB OPERA has a mission - inspired by the real life tragedy of Tyler Clementi, THE WEB OPERA is presented online to encourage all who view it, via the website, to support organizations working for suicide prevention and against cyber abuse. The first three episodes are online now, episodes four and five will be complete within the next year or so. To view all three episodes, to support the filming of episodes four and five, and for information regarding THE WEB OPERA's mission, please visit www.thewebopera.com

More detailed synopsis (some spoilers):

In Episode One, a college freshman (FG97 - all of the characters are referred to by their e-mail addresses) is installing software for his new webcam when he receives a message from his new roommate, Violinist98. Online, he investigates his roommate to get more information about him, all the while communicating about it with his friend across the hall, June99.

In Episode Two, Violinist98 is practicing violin and then, distracted, he seeks solace online from a forum; eventually he receives a friend request from Bookstore90, a man he'd met the day before, and arranges a date with him for the next night. He informs FG97 via text that he needs the room.

In Episode Three, FG97 visits his friend June99 during Violinist98's date. Via his webcam, hoping to have a look at Bookstore90, whom FG97 finds suspicious, they have a quick look at the date and discuss this with June's roommate and two of her roommate's friends. Having looked, they see something they can't unsee - and FG97 informs others online about it in a tweet that Violinist98 reads later that evening - as he stares at the webcam.

"A mentally ill person feels neglected by society and takes revenge."

"When life is meaningless and everything is hopeless, where do you go?"

Inspired by the life of Danny Germansen.

Manifestation is an semi-autobiographical art-house short film about a mentally ill person who takes revenge on society because he feels neglected by his family, the social system, the community around him, and Society in general. He was mentally abused as a kid and adult by a psychopathic father. The film draws parallels to the environmental issues of the present and to the white supremacy that created our capitalist society that we live in today. It’s a tale of a social outcast who suffered weltschmerz and lived a life of loneliness, alienation and isolation in a society that is emotionally desolated. During the 17-minute film, the viewer experiences a nihilistic view of the world from the social outcast’s point of view.

PISS OFF explores a long-practiced erotic fetish from the point of view of a gay millennial who expresses it as performance art.