John Vicario

Shoppers Market

UCLA Student Color Film. "a documentary film of marked lyrical and experimental tendency which was photographed and recorded in a L.A. supermarket. It consists of five sequences: 1) description of people 2) Comedy 3) choreographing natural movements 4) transformation fo visual reality 5) empathy". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011. Filmed at Shopper's Market, Santa Monica, CA.

Dementia 13

A widow deceives her late husband's mother and brothers into thinking he's still alive when she attends the yearly memorial to his drowned sister, hoping to secure his inheritance, but her cunning is no match for the demented, axe-wielding thing roaming the grounds of the family's Irish estate.

The Soba Man

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A Japanese folktale of the Soba Man and a demon without a face blends into the present when Mirico attends a party for her white boyfriend. Japanese-American Mirico is made into an object of fascination to Dom's white friends at a party, unsettling her. She meets Chuck, the host of the party and learns that she resembles a past lover. Mirico shares eerie similarities with the lover and the girl in The Soba Man folktale.