Stanya Kahn Movies

Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way,...

A woman with a viking helmet, bloody nose, and large wheel of cheese rambles across Los Angeles, followed by a cameraman hoping to catch some action.

At first glance, Masters of None could be the home video of a family of neon-pink hooded figures, passing the time with charades, television, and...

Ominous moving objects create tension while a ‘happy’ song plays. Stanya Kahn’s morbid, humorous collaboration with painter Llyn...

Stanya Kahn’s Stand in the Stream is a fast-paced digital film about life, death, and the inextricability of the personal from the political....

Landscapes that burn and flood, shift and collapse in an unstable world. Human figures stare at cellphones while floating down the river and falling...

Feral tribes are the only inhabitants left in a decimated Los Angeles, sustaining themselves on the debris of an annihilated culture.

Two teenagers traverse a post-apocalyptic California in this tale of an inherited wasteland, unprepared resilience and compassion, which points to...

Don’t Go Back to Sleep is a an experimental narrative film, a haunted tragi-comedy that functions as much as a symbolic meditation on citizen...

Water drops from the sky, but the mood changes quickly in this brightly coloured animation, created from paintings. A cycle of death and regeneration...

SD video, stereo sound by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn 2008

In this animated line drawing, two birds express complaints and frustrations about their daily lives. Balancing between mundane chores and the...

Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, ©2008

Under a cloudless Los Angeles sky, Kahn—dressed in incongruous heels and a summery dress—runs an electric weed whacker through a hill of...

Winner is a fictional interview gone awry, featuring a reticent sweepstakes winner who doggedly avoids receiving her prize and manages to morph an ad...

Lost on their way to a desert rock concert, two loners remember the good times.