David Zellner

Kumiko, a Tokyo office worker and a frustrated lady with her mundane life, becomes obsessed that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, Fargo, stating that a fixating a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota. She mistakes that fictional movie as a real one with a documentary. With a crudely drawn treasure map and limited preparation, she escapes her structured life in Tokyo and she travels to America to find it. She embarks on a foolhardy quest across the tundra of Minnesota in search of her mythical fortune.Read More »

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On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat farmer-cum-demolition derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, so her daily routine is filled with solitary mischief. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a woman’s plaintive call for help from an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit the well daily, she is unsure about how to deal with the woman’s plight.Read More »