HOTEL ACAJOU (2023)

Inside a hotel room, one cold winter evening, a troubled man encounters visions of his turbulent past relationships. Hotel Acajou is neo-noir that follows one man’s struggle to escape his ‘waking-dream’ before making his 'final exit'.

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici

Featuring: Constance Wookey, Christian Chase, Donal Brophy

Runtime: 1hr 3mins

Genre: Neo-Noir, Avant-Garde

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AN EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR (2022)

Returning to his Catskills childhood home after the death of his mother, Tobias, a married gay man, falls in love with a woman changing the course of their lives forever.

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici

Producers: Amos Elroy, Benjamin Orifici

Featuring: Wendell Laurent, Elizabeth Vermilyea, David Woodrow, Gareth Lawson

Runtime: 1hr 46mins

Genre: Drama, Coming of Age, LBGTQ

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Delivery Hour (2015)

Anthony's Delivery Hour usually runs like clockwork. Not tonight. His wife went into labor 20 minutes ago. His girlfriend is threatening to leave him if he doesn't meet up. A cocaine buy goes terribly wrong. And if the Nets tank in Game 7, so will Anthony's dream to move his family out of Public Housing.

*Shot in real-time in 'One Continuous Take', DELIVERY HOUR is a non-stop adrenaline ride through the streets of South Brooklyn to a Manhattan Hospital.

-Available on Amazon Prime

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici

Cast: Christian Chase, Perri Yaniv, Tashan Muldrow, Diana Aru, Quatis Tarkington, Jeanna Lue, Delaney Smeal, Judith Anna di Donato, Nick Garofola.

Runtime: 1 hr. 8 mins

Genre: Drama, Cinema-Verite, Real-Time

 

Carroll Park (2013)

"Four Med­i­ta­tions on Love, Betrayal & Sec­ond Chances…" CARROLL PARK fol­lows Four Sto­ries connected through a Brook­lyn neigh­bor­hood park. Life-changing Deci­sions and For­bid­den Romance all inter­sect one sum­mer in Car­roll Park., Brooklyn.

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici

Cast: Michelle Cama­ratta, Marcin Paluch, Shavo­nia Jones, Bri­anna Good­man, Made­line Lupi, Ben Broad, Mon­isha Shiva, Elise Rovin­sky, Blaine Pen­ning­ton, Philippe Bernardin.

Runtime: 1 hr. 25 mins

Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age

 

Brooklyn Breach (2012)

BROOKLYN BREACH follows the arc of three Brooklyn families whose lives are under constant hidden surveillance. As we voyeuristically examine their secret lives, we follow each family’s descent toward its own life-changing event.

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici

Cast: Jene Von Dacre, Danny Boushebel, Diana Aru, Deirdre Brennan, Blaine Pennington, Ben Broad, Matthew Watson, Michelle Camma­rata, Sibani Biswas, Robert Sciglimpaglia, Bhabani Basu, Joresa Blount, Victoria Bundonis, Brian Hennessey and Mercedes Diaz.

Runtime: 1 hr. 34 mins

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Surveillance

 

The Short Happy Voyage of Benjamin Lincoln (2010)

In 2002, Benjamin Lincoln quit his job as a 2nd year law associate to teach English in Beijing, China. After 3 months, he left his teaching post to join his friend, Christelle, to travel together through Nepal and eastern Tibet. They have never been seen again. In 2014, during renovation of a temple in Xie, Tibet, a tape was uncovered buried 9 feet under the main alter's sepulchral. This is the Tape.

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici

Cast: Plaijor Adak., John Benel, Christelle Cluzeau, FermierLui Fang, Li Jing, Sandhag Kyab, Wang Lei., Dhondup Nprbu, Benjamin Orifici, Li Gui Ying.

Runtime: 1 hr. 16mins

Genre: Thriller, Found-Footage

 

Opus 40: The Master-Work of Environmental Artist Harvey Fite (2005)

Opus 40 is a large envi­ron­men­tal sculp­ture in Sauger­ties, New York, cre­ated by sculp­tor and quar­ry­man Har­vey Fite (1903—1976). It com­prises a sprawl­ing series of dry-stone ramps, pedestals and plat­forms cov­er­ing 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) of a blue­stone quarry.

*Featured documentary at the Opus 40 on-site museum in Saugerties, NY.

Writer/Director: Benjamin Orifici, Amos Elroy

Cast: Tad Richards

Runtime: 48 mins

Genre: Documentary