ELI, BRIEFLY // Dir. Celine Sutter // 2022
A young, newly successful actor Eli loses their keys after blacking out at their friend Gray's birthday party. Told in an invasive time structure, the film follows Eli the next day as they visit people from their past in order to get a spare set while piecing together what happened the night before. Through the process of reckoning with Gray and seeing their mother, Eli is forced to face their past self, and confront their self-destructive behavior towards the people closest to them.
Written, directed, and edited by Celine Sutter
Currently in post-production
When Alex, a queer radio programmer, discovers an injured dog on the side of the road, their night takes a turn for the unexpected. Through their journey into the night, and Milo’s fight for his life, Alex comes face to face with what it means to be alone, and the work it takes to let someone in.
Written, directed, and edited by Celine Sutter
Official Selection Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn, 2022
SECOND SHIFT // Dir. Celine Sutter // 2021
Each of us has a second shift, you know, the one that happens when you get home from work? For Amira, getting off her bartending job and coming home means turning away a girl she's seeing at the door, and caring for her father, Andrew.
Written, directed and edited by Celine Sutter
GODS, GENERALLY // Dir. Celine Sutter // 2020
As a superstorm is hitting the New York City area we are thrown into the lives of a mother and daughter in a mandatory evacuation zone, and a woman in hospice care upstate forced to celebrate her birthday alone. This is the story of a storm and a flood, one that has happened and will continue to happen: "people have the tendency to think they are gods, generally." I wrote, directed, and edited the short film for my senior year thesis project at NYU Gallatin.
AMERICAN DREAM // Dir. Elena Lark, DOP. Celine Sutter // 2018
I was the hired Director of Photography for the designer and director Elena Lark's music video for Imani Gold.
