Cas Taylor
Director's note:
This film contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photo-sensitivities such as migraine.'
With HIRAETH, I wanted to immerse the audience in a visual and auditory experience where light and sound play with and affect one another, changing one another's very nature--if only momentarily. This is what happens when I experience a migraine with aura. It impacts my very ability to access thought, sensation, and even my conception of reality and memory can become transient, skewed by something as simple as a beam of light hitting my eye just so, or a sound as ordinary as a seagull passing overhead.
Hiraeth (The Longing)
written, directed, production design, sound design, editing, produced: Cas Taylor
Running time: 5 minutes
Experimental short film. Drama/Documentary.
Now Submitting via FILM FREEWAY. Contact for screening and press review password.
HIRAETH explores temporal, visual, and auditory disturbances as they relate to memory, specifically memories of my late father who--in times of personal struggle--was someone upon whom I would turn for comfort, counsel, and company. In his absence, I am filled with a kind of homesickness. A longing for something to which I can never return.
Step inside the experimental world of HIRAETH where you are the traveler, searching for something you will never find, and to which you can never return.
WINNER:
Best Art Film, LA Sci-Fi & Horror Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (North American Premiere, July 23rd, 2021)
Audience Award Best Experimental Film, Paris Short Film Festival, Les Voutês, Paris (France Premiere, September 2021)
Best Editing, Roma Short Film Festival, Rome, Italy (October 2022)
Best Sound Design, Portland New Alternative Voices (2022)
FINALIST:
Best Experimental Short Film, Mindfield Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM (July/August 2021)
Best Sound Design, Mindfield Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM (July/August 2021)
Best Female Director in Short Film, Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT, Toronto, Ontario (Canadian Premiere 2021)
Best Experimental Short Film, Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT, Toronto, Ontario (Canadian Premiere 2021)
Best Editing, Cult Movies International Film Festival (2022)
Best Sound Design, Cult Movies International Film Festival (2022)
NOMINATIONS:
Best Short Film, 3rd Annual Anticensura Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina (South American Premiere, July 24th, 2021)
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Best Documentary Short Film, Anatolia International Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey (Turkey Premiere, September 9th, 2021)
Best Experimental Short Film, Carolina Short Film and Screenwriting Showcase (2022)
Official Teaser Trailer:
waypoints
written, directed, produced, production design, sound, editing: CasTaylor
person in the woods: Cas Taylor
Running time: 5 minutes
LGBTQ+ drama/thriller about escaping intimate partner violence.
Watch now on FILM FREEWAY
When pushed to your limit, do you have what you need to make an escape? Could you? Would you? Waypoints is an ongoing web series exploring themes surrounding gender identity, equality, and relationships in an open-ended, experimental forum. "Love Is What" is an episode exploring intimate partner violence and silent abuse.
WINNER:
Best Thriller Short, Big Sur Film Festival, Big Sur, CA
Best LGBTQ Short, Big Sur Film Festival, Big Sur, CA
Best LGBTQ Short, Imagine Rain Independent Film Awards, Silicon Valley, CA
Best LGBT Short, Vesuvius International Film Festival, Napoli, Italy
GRAND JURY PRIZE:
Best Female Filmmaker, Imagine Rain Independent Film Awards, Silicon Valley, CA
FINALIST:
Best Micro Short Film, New Wave Short Film Festival, Munich, Germany
HONORABLE MENTION:
Best Short Film, International Smyrna Movie Fest, Izmir, Turkey
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
International Horror/Thriller Short, Nosferatu Film Festival, London, England (October 23, 2021) **screening EVERYWHERE! Click here for more information **
TOXIC
directed by
Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, and Todd Tapper
written by Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, and Todd Tapper
running time:
93 minutes est.
In pre-production
Production Designer
WINTER ISLAND
directed by Tony Doupé
written by Christopher John Taylor & Clark Coffey
running time:
86 minutes est.
in post-production, 2022
Production Designer
Art Director
SUBMERGENT
directed by Jon M. Wilson
written by Jon M. Wilson & Allan B. Hill
running time:
22 minutes est.
in post-production 2022
Producer
Production Designer
Score Arrangement
MRS. WAKEFIELD
written & directed by Michael Judkins
theatrical play
March 2022
Prop Designer
LONEY GIRL
written & directed by Michael Judkins
running time:
17 minutes, est.
now in principal photography
March - April 2022
Production Designer
COMING OUT FOR LOVE
created & directed by Nicole Conn
television series
in post-production 2022
Production Designer
The Souls of Black Pebbles
written & directed by Anthony Green
feature-length
now streaming, 2022
Production Designer
Producer
Crowdfunding Manager
Wardrobe
Prop Master
The Woman in the Room
written & directed by Alex Leas
based on a short story by Stephen King
running time: 30 minutes est
Now Screening in Festivals, worldwide
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Producer
The Hunger of Forgotten Memories
Two women find themselves on opposing sides of a viral outbreak that ravages the short-term memory. One night, they share accommodations and learn they may have more in common than meets the eye.
An audio experience
Based on the short story by C. L. Taylor which first appeared on Roulette
post-production
The Wild Reach
When a young indigenous woman wakes to find her mother has died in the night leaving her alone, houseless, and starving on the outskirts of Camden, she must face her first rite of passage, alone.
An audio experience based on the short story by C. L. Taylor
Narrated by Christopher Moncrieffe
in production, 2022
© Oly Girl Films
all rights reserved.