Matt Hosseinzadeh

writer, director, and a few other things

Girl-on-Girl Action

I recut another film I made in 2008, one originally called TWISTED ROOMMATES. I hated that film because I had screwed it up in almost every way, except that I felt it had a really good action sequence at its core. Throughout the last few months, I would occasionally revisit the film, trying to figure out how to salvage it. I finally came up with the idea of discarding the “plot” and dialog and making it into a more abstract action film. It’s now called GIRL-ON-GIRL ACTION.

"------" KILLER Director's Cut

A short film I made in 2008, "-----" KILLER, is back on the short films page. I removed it last year because I was displeased with it, and I thought I’d bury it for good. But, not having made a film in a while, I revisited “------” KILLER and tried to rework it. I cut out 30 seconds, removed the crappy music, remixed the sound, cropped the picture to 2.35:1 to give it a wide “cinemascope” feel, and color corrected the shots, giving them deeper blacks and richer colors. The end result is what I call the "Director's Cut" -- the pacing has improved and the cinematography looks more pleasing.

It's still a silly little film I shot in about four hours, in my former bare apartment back in Redwood City, but I like it now. It’s a part of my filmmaking history, and at the time, it was meant to be an exercise in telling a story without dialog.