Archive for the ‘Movies By Us’ Category

Detective City Angel: A Film by Alessandro Cima

  MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE Want to follow a secret identity artist through a dangerous Los Angeles as he escapes and hits like a criminal? Hang on and watch carefully. You may need to watch it 14 times to catch the drift. But you’ve probably got that kind of time anyway. This is a Los [...]


Horror Short: Helping Hand

Adult Content – Not For Children Under 13 Enjoy and have a Happy Halloween!


Detective City Angel: A Film by Alessandro Cima

  MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE     This is the YouTube version of the film for those who don’t necessarily want to load the full HD video. Want to follow a secret identity artist through a dangerous Los Angeles as he escapes and hits like a criminal? Hang on and watch carefully. You may need [...]


Detective City Angel: A Film by Alessandro Cima

  MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE     Want to follow a secret identity artist through a dangerous Los Angeles as he escapes and hits like a criminal? Hang on and watch carefully. You may need to watch it 14 times to catch the drift. But you’ve probably got that kind of time anyway. This is [...]


Wall – Ethos: A Film by Alessandro Cima

Brazilian artist Claudio Ethos works on his first Los Angeles art piece. I happened upon him down on Main Street and thought he was a worker about to paint over a painting of a face. I started shooting and after several minutes realized that he was the artist.


One Dead Angel (Part 1) – A Film by Alessandro Cima

This is part 1 of my next film. It stands alone as of now however. With one brief exception, everything in color was shot in Los Angeles over the past several months. The music is by Kevin MacLeod who offers his incredible compositions through http://www.incompetech.com. The dark, gritty elements of film noir, especially that of [...]


Glass Boulevard

Filmed in the dullest imaginable environment of shops along a major Los Angeles street at night when the shops were closed. My Christmas film. The music is a public domain recording of Artie Shaw and his orchestra playing ‘There’s Something in the Air’ in 1936. The singer is Peg LaCentra. I found it at the [...]


Horror Short: Helping Hand

Adult Content – Not For Children Under 13 This is a graphic horror film.  It’s not intended for young children.  If you are under 13, do not watch this before discussing it with your parents!  Seriously.  Also, you should probably not watch it if you are at risk from sudden fear, anxiety or shock. A [...]


Film: Yellow Plastic Raygun

Well I’m just very pleased about this. The Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles has given my film, Yellow Plastic Raygun, the award for Best Experimental Film. I was having quite a nice week attending various parties and screenings at the festival. Its use of multiple locations in the heart of downtown Los Angeles gives one [...]


Film: Rain On My Flower

My new film is a silent one about wet, foggy colors. It was raining in December and the roses looked droopy under the weight of the water droplets. Then the camera started going in and out of focus and I thought it made a good color show so I started to learn how to make [...]