This is a challenging work, but not as challenging toward becoming a David Lynch mindfuck. Meaning, the writer/director spares us from the headache of having to transcend the expected cinematic grammar that has been used since the artistic medium’s creation and has predictably been accorded based on its rational correspondence with the ordering of human conscious experience. Yet....

  A Short History of Decay shows the decay of a family, even though it cleverly aims to concentrate on the ailing aging of the protagonist’s parents. Nathan’s father has just had a stroke, compelling him to fly down to nurse him back to health, while his mother would be incapable at the task due to her moderate Alzheimer’s which is slowly erasing her personality with each....

  The English Teacher tries to feign an explication of one woman’s idiosyncrasy in a vanilla Pennsylvania world. The idea that she is a lover of words and has always been “different” because of that in general is nice. But the execution of that idea is much harder to pull off. The effort shown in the film depicts an off-tangent concentration on the dramatic arts versus actual....