JON MORITSUGU
SHORT FILMS


CRACK 1998, 45 seconds, 16mm
"fast, short, pointed and furious" - Filmmaker

"In less than a minute Moritsugu is able to successfully convey conflict, resolution... panic"  - Film Threat Online

SCREENINGS
New York Underground Film Festival
Microcinefest, Baltimore
Dockers-Levi Strauss Independent Film Festival, SF

CREDITS
written and directed by: Jon Moritsugu
starring: David Hahn
music: Amy Davis and Jon Moritsugu



SLEAZY RIDER
1988, 23 minutes, 16mm
"The film's use of crude animation
and genial low-grade yucks is well
worth seeing.  The soundtrack's a doozy, too." - SPIN

"the bikers are babes, the soundtrack is deafening" - City Paper (DC)

"A shiny, dusted fairy tale of
"girl hoods on an epic scum ride." - Your Flesh

SCREENINGS (selected) & AWARDS
Guggenheim, NYC
Honolulu Underground Film Festival, WINNER "POPULAR CHOICE" AWARD
Berlin Film Festival (market)
New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

CREDITS
starring: Hanna Davidson, Sam Grisdale, Wendy Edwards, Nancy Versaci
written ,directed & produced by: Jon Moritsugu
music by: Eugene Chadbourne, Shockabilly, feedtime, Steppenpuke




DER ELVIS
(1987, 23 minutes, 16mm)
One of the "top 50 movies of the 1980's"  - Village Voice

"Best of the 80's" - LA Weekly
SCREENINGS (selected)
Whitney Museum of American Art , NYC
National Museum of Warsaw, Poland
International Conference of the Avant-Garde, Toronto
Venice Film Festival
Turin Film Festival
Rimini Film Festival
Asian Pacific American Film Festival, Los Angeles
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
State Film Theater, Melbourne
Orion Theater, Helsinki
New York University Cinema Studies
University of Southern California

STARRING
Golden Joe Baker, Hanna Davidson, Sandra Hamburg, Neil Lazarus


WRITTEN, DIRECTED and PRODUCED by
Jon Moritsugu

L'IL DEBBIE SNACKWHORE OF NEW YORK CITY
1987,  2 minutes, 16mm
DIRECTED by
Jon Moritsugu

DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY
Lisa Guay
BRAINDEAD
(1987, 1 minute, 16mm)

SCREENINGS
Millenium, NYC

DIRECTED
by
Jon Moritsugu

MUSIC
Honeymoon Killers (NYC)



MOMMY MOMMY WHERE'S MY BRAIN
1986, 10 minutes, 16mm
SCREENINGS
Asian American International Film Festival, SF
PS 1, Long Island City
PS 122, NYC
Millenium NYC

CREDITS
starring: Robert Erskine, Afshin Gharib, Fernanda Moore, Lawrence James
written, directed and produced by: Jon Moritsugu