Scout Tafoya Movies

A depressed filmmaker takes on a new project that might help him break into the mainstream or drive him further into despair and reclusivity.

An imagined plague diary

On Otto Rank, Wombs, Water, Sex, Doubles, and Cinema.

A riff on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, examining the passions that have anchored love stories for centuries. Jane loved Roderick, until they...

Shane, a hustler-turned-blackmailer, has an encounter with an extra-terrestrial. It imprints on him, reads his thoughts and begins assaulting the...

After the plague kills everyone they know, seven camp counselors quarantined themselves at the Quaker camp where they've spent every summer of their...

A woman gathers her oldest friends for a weekend in Atlantic City to celebrate her engagement

An essay about films about flying.

Two girls on a car trip can't speak about the traumatic event that ties them together.

There is a vampire who has been quietly stalking the streets of New York City for a hundred years. When she saves a young woman from being sexually...

What it feels like to be left behind.

A boy stops at a friend's house to flirt after a bad day, but things go worse than he could have imagined.

Not long ago the people of an unnamed country were involved in a civil war. After the armistice, both sides noticed hundreds of bodies unaccounted...