Videoteca

It's Dark and Patel Is Hot 2022
A comedy mixtape from five recorded shows with personal tales from Nimesh traveling the country and how he grieves his grandfather’s death in a very special comedy hour with a lot of crowd work.

Paper Geese 2021 star_border 7
After an unsuccessful goose hunt, a young girl grapples with seeing her father in a new light.

Prologue 2020 star_border 8
Prologue is a short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband wants. With the unexpected help of an elderly stranger who thinks Julie is someone she is not, the young newlywed navigates how to live her truth.

Hermit 2020
On a beautiful night when George and Melany should be celebrating their eighteenth wedding anniversary, they're engaged in an intense quarrel. "You're bored" and "no, I'm not" very quickly devolves into "I met someone, her name's Cynthia." Melany takes this news in stride, but very much not interested in letting eighteen years of marriage go to waste, she digs her heels in. Her female intuition intuiting that there's more to this than meets the eye, she pushes George to tell her what's really bugging him. George, on the other hand, wants whatever this is to end, like right now. He decides to take a walk, Melany blocks his path; one thing leads to another and the gloves come off: it's a full-on fistfight that ends tragically when George, in a fit of rage, strangles Melany to death. The following morning finds George passed out on the living room floor. He wakes up and the memories of the events from the night before wash over him, except...well, who knows if that's what really happened.

It's Who You Know 2018 star_border 4
A young dancer befriends a homeless woman, and that relationship brings him the break he's been searching for. Surrounded by friends and a job that barely makes ends meet, Clayton sticks to his passion throughout his struggles.

2017 People's Climate March in Washington D.C. 2017
In a vérité documentary from April 29th, 2017, Nolan Gould states over communal drums that climate change will change access to clean water and air. As the camera marches with the people including a NASA retiree, Oklahoma protesters, Al Gore, and veterans. The film ends with three prompts: Reduce Consumption, Recruit Likeminded Individuals, and Share How Climate Change Affects You.

#patel2016 2016 star_border 7
A very mini-special in 2016 compiled from 3 comedy sets from Nimesh Patel performing election jokes, taped over 4 shows. Political jokes that Nimesh might not be allowed to do ever again, at the Comedy Cellar.

Long Distance 2016 star_border 8

Biafra 2015 star_border 6
An unnamed graffiti artist produces a new piece in the biting cold of Minneapolis. Despite the illegality of his medium and the harshness of his environment, the film captures why the artist chooses to create on his own terms.

Yeon-Gi 2014 star_border 8
As she mimics every facing strangers, Chihiro develops her ego, like a fish jumping above the water, the instant and vanishing. When she faces herself, then what would happens?

Soulmate 2013 star_border 7
An artist draws the scenes to the lyrics at pace with the song.