Sam Fleischner

On the day before leaving New York for graduate school in a Iowa, a writer's plan to spend a romantic day at Rockaway Beach with a woman he's secretly dating is disrupted by an oddball surfer.

Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends past.

Max goes on a cruise alone when his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones) dumps him. Once in Jamaica, he escapes the tourist zone only to be robbed and stranded. But Jamaica is waiting to meet him with unexpected and extraordinary encounters.

Max goes on a cruise alone when his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones) dumps him. Once in Jamaica, he escapes the tourist zone only to be robbed and stranded. But Jamaica is waiting to meet him with unexpected and extraordinary encounters.

Max goes on a cruise alone when his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones) dumps him. Once in Jamaica, he escapes the tourist zone only to be robbed and stranded. But Jamaica is waiting to meet him with unexpected and extraordinary encounters.

When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set in Far Rockaway, Queens, in the days leading up to Hurricane Sandy, these parallel stories of mother and son take the viewer on a touching journey of community and connection in and below New York City.

Patiently documenting the installation of new coastal infrastructure in the Rockaways, this observational process story was recorded on 16mm film and features an original score by Animal Collective.