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The Blue Aspic (narrative/ melodrama) Based on the story by Edward Gorey. Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director. Tom Cabela, Greg *****Paroff: Producers. Patrick Barnes: Editor. Matthew Boyd: Cinematographer. Sally Sherwood: Art Director. c. Bruce Burns, *****Caitlin Talbot, Karen Hager, Lou DeLucia, Greg Paroff.

*****Jasper Ankle, the Opera’s humble janitor, becomes obsessed with the understudy Ortenzia Destino when he hears her sing for the first time. Suddenly, the lead is mysteriously poisoned by a box of chocolates, and Ortenzia must take her place. From that performance she becomes a star. Almost overnight everyone wants a piece of Destino. Jasper sees that it is sucking the life out of her. He makes it his mission, his obsession, to save her from everyone including herself.

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Henry Whistler (narrative) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer, c. Dan Keezer, Andrea Smith.

*****Henry bellows is, to be fair, a painfully awkward social moron. However, he has an amazing gift, he is a genius whistler. Unfortunately, the kids at his new school do not appreciate his talent. He is abused, which makes him go to any length to fit in. Finally, Henry realizes that people will accept him if he can just be himself. Henry couldn’t have been more wrong, but don’t worry, geek love prevails in the end.

(official selection Chautauqua film festival 2003)

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Beauty of the Moment (narrative) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor. Adam White: Cinematographer. C. Herb *****Rossman, Paul Moriconi, Evelyn Avanti.

*****Before he is taken to a care facility, a man ravaged by Alzheimers spends his last day at home remembering with his son. They have never had much of a relationship until the Alzheimers gave them a chance to start over. The film’s narrative mimics the man’s mental state, showing the past but never leaving the present. It also sheds new perspective on this tragic disease.

(official selection Chautauqua film festival 2002)

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Finding Rodney (narrative) Tom Cabela, Brian Andersen: Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer. Tom Cabela, Brian *****Andersen, Keith Thompson: Writers, c. Brian Andersen, Keith Thompson, Tom Cabela, Courtney Heller.

*****Rodney Tout, a 38 year old returning student, finds his truck driving, meth shooting, gun toting ways don’t blend well with the progressive lifestyles of today’s students. After a scuffle with some Marxists, Rodney stands to loose the most important thing in the world to him: dorm-life with the students. Rodney must find a way to right his wrongs before he is expelled forever.

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Covering the Enemy (documentary) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Exposes popular media for its relentless scapegoating and misrepresentation of Islam and Arabs after the September 11th attacks.

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Nature Vs. Nurture (experimental) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Explores the many layers of the constructed self, and attempts to get at what is essential and eternal in everything.

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Ghosts (narrative) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer, c. Edward Hemmings

*****A teenaged train-hopper is haunted by visions of his ghost father. He chases his vision to the dismal conclusion that alcohol and drugs have already taken a toll on his young mind.

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Driven (narrative) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer, c. Mick Spencer, Daryl Sartin.

*****A young boy’s imagination is all he has to escape the realities of an abusive home life. Until, one day when he decides to make his dreams reality.

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Ta Farma (documentary) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Documentary follows one Czech family’s farm from pre-war, through communism, and into the new Americanized economy.

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Freestyle Vandalism Tom Cabela, John Thorson: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer, c. Tom Cabela, Javid *****Debastani.

*****Billy and Jaws; cutting edge, visionary, moronic. Whatever words you choose to describe them. Freestyle vandalism, the sport they have pioneered, is taken the world by storm.

(Selected for Cornfed Video’s “It’s Eating My Head” compilation, showed at UCSC Annual Mockumentary Film Festival)

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Pretty Kettle of Fish (experimental documentary/ comedy) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Taken from over 22 hours of documentary footage of my life in Berlin. See me struggle with the futility of love and loss in this three ring symphony of a city.

(Official selection Middle of Nowhere film festival, select screening Mary Riepma Ross Theater, aired LCTV, seen on Short TV)

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The Alien Hand (narrative) Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer, c. Nolan Tredway, Bob Hanson.

*****After the apocalypse, a boy trying to survive finds himself the slave of an evil sorcerer. The boy is kept as the sorcerer’s slave and subject to his sadistic cruelty. One day, the boy’s hand lashes out on its own accord. The hand leads him to investigate the source of the sorcerer’s powers which are revealed to be an illusion. Led by the alien in his hand, the boy rebels, killing the old man. Desperate and scared, the boy severs his own hand and buries it. However, it is not the last he sees of the alien hand.

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20th Century Fiction (experimental) Produced for LCTV. Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Montage composition of twentieth century media images.

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I Believe What you Said (experimental) Produced for LCTV. Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Abstract visualization of Psychic TV’s song, composed entirely from analog video generators.

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Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood (experimental), Tom Cabela: Writer/ *****Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer, c:Ryan Butler

*****Dark and sensual visual recreation of William Wordsworth’s immortal poem.

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Chapell (documentary), Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

*****Documentary about my grandfather’s life (and death) after surviving a terrible car accident and losing his wife.

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Piggy (experimental drama), Tom Cabela: Writer/ Director/ Producer/Editor/Cinematographer c: Casey Cabela, Matt Pewthers

*****An abusive father and isolated existence lead young Piggy to kill another boy his age.

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Still from Driven