Matthew Rhodes

The French Cowboy

An old cowboy trains a man from another country to be a cowboy in order to stop a group of outlaws from attacking ranchers and starting a war with Apache Indians.

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea

During a cannibalistic bath salts epidemic in Hemet, California, a tyrannical landlady lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.

Under Refurbishment

An animatronic cowboy at a Western-themed family entertainment center struggles to maintain his creative freedom.

Psychosis

Isolated in his basement apartment, a neurotic programmer begins to suspect that a technological entity is trying to abduct him.

What Daphne Saw

In the future, capital punishment has been abolished. Violent criminals are reprogrammed into unquestioning servants, their free will and ability to speak taken away. A young woman endures her punishment of servitude in a seemingly normal man's home, where she discovers dark secrets.

Rubaru

Charles, a young man recounts his life story. In his audio recording he shares the beauty and the ugliness of his life. How there can be such joy and such despair in the same moments? As he journeys through his story it becomes evident that something is tormenting him.

Caesura

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.

Candyman

Andy fights to save his waitress girlfriend from a pink-suited mob lord known as "The Candyman".