Short Films

Title: White Zombie
Date: April 2009
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: White Zombie is the Gothic tale of Jordan, a young lady on the path to adulthood, who runs away with her equally as young fiance in order to get married, but when road gets bumpy and they are stranded in a desolate village they rely on a rich man whose broken heart is mended at the sight of Jordan. Foolishly in love, he will do anything to keep Jordan for his own even turn her into a zombie. It may be a zombie movie, but it's a love story at heart.

Cast: Estelle Stephenson, William Colón, Ian Schwartz, Michael Hitchcock, Nick Chandler, Keith Ward

Title: The Job: Blown Away WINNER BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS at Delicious Film Festival 2008
Date: February 2008
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: The third installment of this short action movie franchise took place in London at Goldsmiths College when the trio that makes up Big Penguin Productions enrolled in the school’s art program. The attempt and success of this piece was to create an unconventional art film that critiques modern art, art students, and pop culture.

Cast: William Colón, Jill Erwich, Vincent Nero

Title: Zombies
Date: November 2007
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: Shot on 16mm, this black and white genre piece is a call back to early Hollywood silent films, the 1930's Universal horror films, and the classic sub-genre started by Night of the Living Dead. This beautiful film is a respectful send up while turning the genre on its head.

Cast: William Colón, Hannah Shaffer, Taryn Johnson

Title: Birthday Wish
Date: October 2007
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: A single piece of video art created as a portrait of the artist and the father of the artist. A painful relationship is exposed through a simple powerful image and recording of a belated birthday wish.

Title: Elizabeth
Date: August 2007
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: Elizabeth is a short character piece about a teenage girl becoming coming a woman as she deals with her sexual maturity and her traumatic childhood. Edited by Jarrod Pasha, this psychological study strikes an uncomfortable cord when comforting issues of sex, child abuse, and self abuse.

Title: Life is but a Dream
Date: March 2007
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: Dreams are symbolic, metaphorical hallucinations that occur every time we go to sleep and can be a great source of creative inspiration. So what happens when you clearly depict a dream? This is the product of that venture.

Cast: Vincent Nero, Jerome, and Buster.

Title: Black Bettie
Date: January 2007
Director: Vincent Nero
Producer: William Colón

Description: Black Bettie, a throwback to the 1970’s slasher horror films, explores what happens when the isolation and loneliness eats away at college students on a desolate college campus.

Tagline: 20 minutes of gratuitous violence

Cast: Taryn Johnson, Carolyn Mellick, Don Everhart, Vincent Nero, Hannah Shaffer, William Colón, Sophie DeHainaut, and Laura Zeppieri

Title: Songs of Innocents
Date: November 2006
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: This poetic documentary about the physical and mental development of infants features poems of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. Shot at the Hampshire College Children’s Center, this piece is to the ode of the inevitable tragedy: we get older, we grow, we learn, we are never the same.

Title: One Day in September
Date: November 2006
Director: William Colón

Description: When Sesame Street turns political, when The Muppets turn politically incorrect, you get this adult children’s special that deals with effects of 9/11.

Cast: William Colón and Carolyn Mellick

Title: Taken
Date: October 2006
Director: Vincent Nero and Taryn Johnson

Description: When on the last run of his dirty deeds, Johnny promises to go clean and start a new life with his lover, but when the deal goes bad who is left to pick up the pieces? Love and loss is explored tragically romantic shot.

Cast: William Colón, Vincent Nero, and Jessica Reyes

Title: Chair Affair
Date: October 2006
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: This in-camera-edit successfully sexualized a complete sterile inanimate object, a chair.

Cast: Vincent Nero

Title: The Job: Dead President
Date: May 2006
Director: Vincent Nero
Producer: William Colón

Description: Our hero, Jack Nero, a man for hire, is the only one that can save the President of the United States from the evil terrorist Douglas. Amazing fight scenes and car races, this action short is an adrenaline rush.

Cast: William Colón, Vincent Nero

Title: Ash Forest
Date: April 2006
Director: Vincent Nero

Description: Ash Forest is an eerie in-camera-edit short about two dyads who mystically frolic through their environment.

Cast: Sophie DeHainaut and Carolyn Mellick

Title: Bang
Date: November 2005
Director: Vincent Nero
Producer: ping_pong pictures

Description: Bang is an improv piece done in part with the now disbanded ping_pong pictures. The piece explores what happens when college orientation goes tragically wrong. It features the song Sweet City Woman by The Stampeders.

Cast: Vincent Nero, William Colón, Don Everhart, Ben Greenburg, Hannah Shaffer, and Cam Vokey

Title: c4a1
Date: November 2005
Director: Vincent Nero and Zack Shepard
Producer: ping_pong pictures

Description: A sketch of a parody of The Matrix and the running man genre, this short demonstrates the power of continuity editing.

Cast: William Colón