Frank Mosley

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Frank Mosley is an actor and filmmaker from Texas living in Los Angeles. He's a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami. As a director, he's had two retrospectives of his work: The Spectacle Theater, NYC (2018) and online on Kinoscope (2020), where his films were called "miracles of economy... by a major cinematic voice" (Vague Visages). They include Good Condition (Fantasia 2023), Parthenon (Slamdance 2018), Casa De Mi Madre (Champs-Elysees 2017), and The Event (Fantastic Fest 2022), which debuted as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was named a "Top 12 Film of 2023" on NoBudge. His experimental, interactive feature film Her Wilderness has been called "a beguiling experience" (The Playlist) and "a mesmerizing film by a superb actor and filmmaker" (RogerEbert.com). As an actor, his starring role in Freeland (SXSW 2020, MUBI) opposite Lily Gladstone and Krisha Fairchild was called "excellent... compellingly slippery" (The Hollywood Reporter) and that he's "a dependably fantastic American indie mainstay" (Filmmaker Magazine). Other notable films include Upstream Color (Sundance jury winner, Berlinale 2013), Collective Unconscious (SXSW 2016, The Criterion Channel), Chained for Life (NYTimes Critics Pick 2018, Kino Lorber), Rent Free (Tribeca, Frameline 2024), Love and Work (Slamdance, Chatanooga 2024), Americana (Fantasia, SIFF 2016), The Ghost Who Walks (Netflix Top Ten Film 2020), Thunder Road (SXSW 2018 winner, ACID Cannes), Person to Person (Magnolia Pictures), The Procedure (Sundance 2016 winner, Adult Swim), Don't Ever Change (Vimeo Staff Pick 2017, Alter), and alongside David Arquette in Quantum Cowboys (Fantastic Fest 2022, Factory 25), for which they were called "a divinely sinister duo" (Variety). For his leading role in Some Beasts, he received a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance at the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival and was declared "one of the best performances of 2017" by Film Pulse.

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Love and Work

Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal.

0.0

Year:

2024

Quantum Cowboys

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!

10.0

Year:

2023

Ilsa

Featuring Bella Samman in the title role and Frank Mosley as her driver’s ed instructor. It is a misadventure involving blackmail, a pitbull and a clueless Instagram influencer.

2.0

Year:

2021

Kin

In this poetic, fragmented portrait set in rural Oregon, three white millennials struggle to come to terms with their increasing sense of alienation from contemporary society. Their despair leads them to confront their perceived adversities in the most terrible way imaginable. A searing critique of white American values, KIN invites its viewers to contemplate the troubled and long-brewing reality of Trump's America.

0.0

Year:

2021

The Carnivores

Alice and Bret's dog Harvie is dying, and he's ruining everything. What had been a bright little family is quickly getting consumed by clouds of self-doubt, suspicion and a disturbing amount of ground beef.

3.8

Year:

2020

The Phantom 52

Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.

9.4

Year:

2019

Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes

Jerry and Carl have conned their way from one small Texas town to another, but things go haywire when one of them falls in love with Maureen. Not to mention the P.I. that's hot on their trail... A musical comedy based on "Two Gallants" by James Joyce and the songs of John Prine.

0.0

Year:

2018

Thunder Road

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

6.8

Year:

2018

The Prowler

A lonely man walks the streets of an upscale neighborhood at night.

0.0

Year:

2018

Person to Person

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

5.2

Year:

2017

Don't Ever Change

The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.

5.8

Year:

2017

And By We I Mean Me

A conservative business owner gets a rude awakening when his sister-in-law stops by to talk about his dying father.

0.0

Year:

2017

Black Soil, Green Grass

A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.

6.0

Year:

2016

Americana

An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder.

1.0

Year:

2016

The Procedure

A man is tranquilized on the street numb and finds himself tied up in empty room. But what is that thing coming down?

5.2

Year:

2016

A Feast of Man

Five socialites are put to the test when their recently-deceased friend asks them to commit the ultimate taboo in order to inherit his fortune.

7.0

Year:

2016

The Bulb

Two strangers experience an alien phenomenon through the public access broadcast in a motel room.

6.0

Year:

2016

Two Story

A visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.

0.0

Year:

2015

Don't Look in the Basement 2

In 1972, the patients and doctors at Stephens Sanitarium were brutally murdered. Over forty years later, the only known survivor returns only to find the ghosts of the past have not been resting in peace.

3.9

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2015

Some Beasts

A stoic farmhand in Appalachia is haunted by a mysterious presence in the woods as he cultivates his future in an effort to leave his past behind.

5.5

Year:

2015

Panhandle Jim

An experimental short film about a man on a self destructive journey.

0.0

Year:

2014

Sabbatical

After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.

6.8

Year:

2014

Ghosts of Empire Prairie

Empire Prairie, where Lonnie Enright grew up. He's headed home now, to see his ailing father and little brother. Bad things are coming.

0.0

Year:

2014

Upstream Color

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

6.4

Year:

2013

Suburbanite

John, a white-collar family man, finds his life turned upside down when he hits a man on his way home from work. He takes the body home to his garage, convinced that he can cover up the accident. But before he has a chance to bury the body, the man wakes up. Mack, the victim, forms and unlikely bond with John but this bond is short lived.

8.5

Year:

2013

Cork's Cattlebaron

A young protege and his boss sit down for the most epic steak dinner of their lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

0.0

Year:

2011

Wuss

The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.

5.0

Year:

2011

The Other Side of Paradise

"The Other Side of Paradise" is a highly entertaining comedy about a girl named Rose who embarks on a journey of self-discovery on the way to her first gallery opening. Along the way, she picks up Alex, the newly single friend she's always had feelings for, and her misfit younger brother Jamie, who recently was released from prison. On the road trip, the trio encounter off-the-wall characters and hilarious cameos that chew up the Texas countryside. In the end, the three must come to grips with their own issues of trust, abandonment, love, and ultimately hope.

0.0

Year:

2009

Boundaries

Two men design and build a detention center.

0.0

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The Finger

An isolated man agonizes over his response to economic woes and an uncaring system.

0.0

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El Tonto Por Cristo

A monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a holy fool.

0.0

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The Cellist

For 25 years, Avron Coleman performed cello with the New York Philharmonic, as well as in numerous important string quartets. Retiring in 1997, this active, talkative, prolific, fascinating man still plays, and recounts tales of music and of his own life in music. The film contains lots of beautiful music by Schubert, Bach, Schumann, Brahms, and others.

0.0

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2002

No Hands

Over drinks, an old friend reveals a wild masturbation technique that must be experienced to be believed.

0.0

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Dogbite

A series of strange phone calls force a man into a whirlwind of violence.

0.0

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OBEX

Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.

0.0

Year:

2025

Rent Free

After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.

8.0

Year:

2024

Don't Die

Jenks has been pushed to the brink by a system that does not care about him. Desperate for life-saving medicine, he resorts to robbing a small-town drug store. But when he injures a mysterious woman involved in a black market pharmacy, his attempts to save her life may end up jeopardizing his own.

0.0

Year:

2024

Puncher's Chance

A struggling single father and former Boxer, reluctantly takes a match on short notice.

0.0

Year:

2023

Raps

When Daniel is sent to a CEDU school, part of America's troubled teen industry in the late 90s, he is forced into transgressive therapy sessions called "Raps" that are bent on breaking him down.

0.0

Year:

2023

Taurus

A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.

6.1

Year:

2022

They Want Me Gone

Working hard to support her daughter, Monica is a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapped in rural poverty. From years of struggling and feeling confined, she becomes anxious that she still has a chance to leave. But the surroundings begin to take hold as she gets caught in threatening circumstances. She starts to feel suffocated and loses trust in the people around her as the desire to leave and obtain a better life for herself and her daughter becomes more perilous.

5.0

Year:

2022

Kiddo

An expectant couple's parenting skills are put to the test when a hungry stranger shows up on their doorstep.

0.0

Year:

2022

Dear Mr. Brody

A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.

3.0

Year:

2022

The Event

It's 2 AM, and Vince just wants to know why.

0.0

Year:

2022

Katja Dreams of Waking Up

Katja (27) lives in Berlin and dreams every night of her own death, and her waking hours are a constant stream of work, digital distraction and a paranoia about the future - her inner life moving at a speed that seems unsustainable. While on vacation in northern Norway, she has an extreme encounter with raw nature and gets a new perspective on herself - she returns to Berlin with the intentions of changing her life. But the demon inside her is hard to shake off.

0.0

Year:

2022

Freeland

Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.

4.7

Year:

2021

Coyotes Kill for Fun

A backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved.

0.0

Year:

2017

Collective: Unconscious

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

6.2

Year:

2016

Go Fuck Yourself Oliver

Oliver is having the worst day.

0.0

Year:

2015

The Ladies of the House

A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s desperate fight for survival.

1.5

Year:

2015

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.

6.1

Year:

2013

Knife

Set in rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit. In the beginning we see him returning to his family. Where he’s been is unknown. Wherever it was – prison, maybe war – the years have not been kind to him. In spite of his family’s warm welcome the man can’t shake an anger that builds in him so he must leave them again. This time to return to the land that was once theirs, a land that had been in the family for generations, a land that has been stolen, plundered, and sewn with seeds of greed. There’s a force at work, a corruption that destroys homes, nature, families, and memories. The Man decides to lay his stakes down and pits himself against it all. He is on a ruinous mission to sate the hatred in his heart with the knife he carries in his hand.

5.5

Year:

2011

Deadendz

Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using avant-garde methods.

0.0

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Chained for Life

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

6.2

Year:

2019

The Ghost Who Walks

An imprisoned criminal rats out his former boss for one last chance to reunite his family and become the father he never was.

5.3

Year:

2019

Innards

A former child actor reconnects with his twin brother to discuss a role they once shared--as the lead in a schlocky, shot-on-video cannibal film, "Innards."

0.0

Year:

2017

They Had It Coming

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village. Comparing to Jon Jost’s previous movies, this film has a clearer narrative and is more experimental with the structure as well. The essay film, which takes place in Missouri where they live an outdated lifestyle and where old culture still exists, confuses the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. The movie is based from a true story but instead of telling the exact story, the director casts real actors and gives a little twist to it. The actors explain about the inhumane incidents that happened in the village and while reviving it, they create their own narratives.

6.0

Year:

2015

You Are Your Body / You Are Not Your Body

A group of estranged siblings must reconcile with the past when the death of their mother coincides with the appearance of an apocalyptic cult, suicidal clown, and the second coming of Christ.

3.5

Year:

2014

White Creek

White Creek is a place from another universe. A place where feudalism remains intact and people struggle to break free from debt. One family must escape the dangers of this decaying society, as the power in their valley changes hands. In the end they are left to decide how to move forward in this universe and the next.

3.7

Year:

2014

Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown

Bailey has settled into his new country home and has a crush on a dog from the other side of the fence. When her brother Felix is stolen, Bailey and his brother, Duke, set out to save him before he gets sold at the exchange in historic Cowtown. Will Bailey rescue Felix and win the love of his sweetheart?

4.8

Year:

2013

I Could Live in Hope

A looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conversation between a man and a woman acts as an exploration into the themes of ennui versus action, family versus individual, and how much your environment—both landscapes and people, both tangible and intangible—can affect the choices you make.

0.0

Year:

2011

Lions' Den

A group of old friends are hanging at one of their houses exchanging stories of sexual escapades, awaiting another friend to arrive so they can celebrate a birthday at a nude bar. When one of them is suddenly accused of having masturbated in his friend's bathroom, what starts as a McCarthy-era trial of accusations at one individual suddenly escalates into a night of judgment that tests the truth of their words and the strength of all their friendships. LIONS' DEN is an entirely improvised drama using both actors and non actors shot over the course of an evening, based from a loose outline. It ultimately is a probing of the way men behave with one another. It also emphasizes the way people point the finger at others to hide their own sins and actions. A melting pot of lies, truths, egos, and masculinity that is stirred with documentary-style filmmaking.

0.0

Year:

2007

Leave

Billy the Marine's last day home before going back to Iraq. Realizing he may never come back, he tries to make amends with various people in his life. For Billy, the real battle may be on the home front rather than the front lines. LEAVE is an entirely improvised drama that was shot over the course of one day in Arlington, Texas, using both actors and non actors, both family and friends of the director, all from a one page outline. The story ultimately describes the different ways people express their love to one another, and how these ways of communicating love are sometimes lost.

0.0

Year:

2007

Wednesday

Wednesday is a story of life, love, loss, and redemption. It is divided into four separate segments: Luke & Lucy, Purgatory, Lyrics of a Lowly Life, and Narcissus Flower. Each segment details how different people deal with love and loss. These basic human emotions exist across the world, it's how we individually deal with them that separates and connects us all.

0.0

Year:

2006

Destroyer

An insecure man's compulsion to know his partner's secrets leads him on an underworld descent where he makes contact with something non-human.

0.0

Year:

The Seagull (but like, not Chekhov)

A patient struggles to see why a disturbing pattern is being perpetuated in his life.

0.0

Year:

Invaders from Venus!

A small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders.

0.0

Year:

2003