Traces

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).

“Snow gently falls on the blood-stained streets of a seedy out-of-time New York City. Steam envelopes the nightmare unfolding within its narrow alleys. Iron is the will of the one who would dare to resist… fight… survive.”

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.