Courtney Stephens Movies

  • 2022
    Lesser Choices

    Lesser Choices

    Lesser Choices

    62022HD

    The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico...

    Lesser Choices
  • 2024
    Invention

    Invention

    Invention

    02024HD

    In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring...

    Invention
  • 2021
    Topology of Sirens

    Topology of Sirens

    Topology of Sirens

    72021HD

    After discovering a set of cryptic microcassettes in her new home, Cas is drawn into a meditative mystery of environmental sound and experimental...

    Topology of Sirens
  • 2020
    CINEMA-19

    CINEMA-19

    CINEMA-19

    02020HD

    A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

    CINEMA-19
  • 2002
    Scumrock

    Scumrock

    Scumrock

    6.22002HD

    A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.

    Scumrock
  • 2017
    Ida Western Exile

    Ida Western Exile

    Ida Western Exile

    52017HD

    A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.

    Ida Western Exile
  • 2021
    Terra Femme

    Terra Femme

    Terra Femme

    02021HD

    Amateur travelogues by women in the 1920s-50s are woven into this meditation on the traveler’s gaze. A mountaineer, a divorcee on a tour of...

    Terra Femme
  • 2010
    Equestrian Sexual Response

    Equestrian Sexual Response

    Equestrian Sexual Response

    6.82010HD

    Eleven-year-old Alice lives on a ranch with her father, her favorite horse and confidante, Red, and the love of Red's life, Molly.

    Equestrian Sexual Response
  • 2017
    Labial Quinet

    Labial Quinet

    Labial Quinet

    02017HD

    An exploration of the "five labia types," as claimed by an aesthetician.

    Labial Quinet
  • 2020
    The American Sector

    The American Sector

    The American Sector

    02020HD

    A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered...

    The American Sector
  • 1970
    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary

    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary

    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary

    01970HD

    John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive...

    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary
  • 2017
    Mating Games

    Mating Games

    Mating Games

    02017HD

    A film comprised of 1960s home movies shot on Muscle Beach, Los Angeles.

    Mating Games
  • 2020
    Perfect Fifths

    Perfect Fifths

    Perfect Fifths

    02020HD

    A portrait of the artist and piano tuner Jerome Ellis, and a meditation on intervals in music, nature and language. The act of tuning harmonizes the...

    Perfect Fifths
  • 2020
    Iris Season

    Iris Season

    Iris Season

    02020HD

    Commission for Cinema-19 (Anthology Film Archives, Zeitgeist Theatre, Northwest Film Forum)

    Iris Season
  • 2018
    Mixed Signals

    Mixed Signals

    Mixed Signals

    02018HD

    Stricken with an undisclosed illness, the narrator of this reflexive work draws evocative parallels between the darkened hulls of an industrial ocean...

    Mixed Signals