Jerry Ruis, Shall We Do This?2007

The boy two floors up can only see the back of the girl’s head but that’s enough for a crush to develop. Josh Safdie made this assured comedy in and around his apartment building when he was still a film student at Boston University.

Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art.

Made when director Josh Safdie was still a film student in Boston, WE’RE GOING TO THE ZOO concerns a sister, a brother, an unintended hitchhiker and their trip to the zoo.

The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies.

JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone.

While trying to move forty kids six blocks in New York City alone, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons.