Jane Samborski

Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

Mediated was made during Todd Raviotta's graduate studies at VCU photography and film. The 54 min movie is about a media obsessed recluse Phillip, who has more conversations with his televisions than his neighbors. represents the mind of america in the early 2000's. The final script for the film was written in the wake of media coverage of 9/11/01 production started 2/14/2002, 2nd unit photography, the postproduction, VFX and sound editing, went through 2005 the film was first screened in Richmond, Virginia, December of 2005 and was screened again in march and may of 2007.

Hitiro the noble samurai serves the Emperor of Richmond, Virginia. After he refuses to enforce the Emperor's draconian tax policies, Hitiro is attacked by a jealous rival, who frames Hitiro for the murder of his wife. Hitiro escapes multiple ninja assassins, and seeks to begin a new life at a peaceful, rural village under the alias of "Hitiro the peasant." But can Hitiro outrun his past? Can he deny his burgeoning feelings for Ikama, daughter of the village headman? And can he save his new home from the wrath of the Emperor's soldiers?

Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.