Tomorrow Was War
February, 2025
13 minutes
Currently in Post-Production
A claustrophobic plunge into the dystopian heart of darkness inspired by the director’s own detention, Tomorrow Was War unspools on a fraught New Year’s Eve in a Russian police state. Shura, a trans man hiding in plain sight, dreads his prying neighbors and the inevitable knock at the door. As the night fractures, so does the narrative — steered by the officer who arrested him, an architect of memory who twists history, truth, and identity to his will.
Cinematography by mikey baratta
Edited by Adamska Rakhilkina & Sadaf Sadri
Sound Design by Tara Forth
VFX by Alejandro Spano
Colored by Adamska Rakhilkina
Production Design by Winnie Wine
Sound Mixing by Alí Meyer
Starring Nicodemus Cor Leonis, MJ Cabigting-Steele, Olga Kravtsova, Valentina Zaitseva
Features art work by Free Soul Bassibet, Afroditi Psarra, James William Blake, Ren Han, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre & Tivon Rice
No
Refunds
January, 2025
8 minutes
Currently distributed by RAINA Films
Collaboration with Mars
Music by Otto
Edited & Colored by Adamska Rakhilkina
No Refunds is a visceral, tangled descent into the transactional dynamics of intimate encounters, told through the language of bodies, sheets, and reflections, where the purchase of queer sex work is laid bare. As the filmmaker simultaneously takes on the roles of client and audience, the boundaries between documentary and performance fade, unraveling the artifice at the heart of sex work and the act of filmmaking.
Polly
October, 2020
17 minutes
Set in a working-class suburb in Georgia, the film is a naturalistic portrait that follows an ordinary young woman, Erin, as she struggles to socially adjust after abandoning her dog, Polly, following a tragic sexual assault.
Directed by Elizabeth Rakhilkina & Angwei Deng
Writen by Angwei Deng
Produced by Jeremy Truong
Cinematography by Chiao Chen
Production Designed by Alexah Acuña
Edited by Angwei Deng
Sound Designed by Matthew Ericson
Color by Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Starring Arielle Goldman & Kyle Cameron
New Flesh for the Old Ceremony
October, 2020
12 minutes
Online
Best Short Film Award at LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival
Best LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award at Sappho Film Festival
Best LGBT Film Nominee at Mabig Film Festival
Honorable Mention at Tokyo International Short Film Festival and New Wave Short Film Festival
Official Selection at Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ Film Festival, Oregon Scream Week Horror Film Festival, Berlin Flash Film Festival, Arc Film Festival, Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, Lesflicks Cinema at LFEST, HIVE: International Neukölln Short Film Days, PrideFlix
A lesbian reverie set amidst the backwoods of New England, New Flesh for the Old Ceremony explores the physicality of grief through a macabre fable about a woman whose wife is devoured by and then possesses their beloved pack of dogs.
Produced by Lecia Ductan
Cinematography by Stefan Nachmann
Edited by Jo Shaffer & Morgan Gu
Production Designed by Sarah Moskowitz
Colored by Alexia Salingaros
Dogs featured in the film are Eliza, Annie, Dannie, Fender & Milo
Starring Ana Maria Jomolca, LeeAnne Hutchison and Catherine Curtin
And Woman Will Inherit The Earth
May, 2017
10 minutes
Online
Official selection of Trinity Film Festival, InShort Film Festival, Eve’s Ribs Film Festival
A woman has to face a sexually aggressive intruder and decide what role in his perverse game she is going to take.
Cinematography by Artemiy Repin
Edited by Morgan Gu
Sound Design by Juan Quimper
Starring Marian Edmiston & Tim Torre
Sleepy
November, 2017
Online
9 minutes
Best Female Filmmaker Award Winner at Moscow Indie Film Festival
A screen adaptation of a story by Anton Chekhov about an immigrant babysitter who falls into a delirious maelstrom induced by her sleep-deprived, sacrificial lifestyle.
Produced by Konstantin Lyubimov
Edited by Joshua Dephew
Cinematography by Konstantin Lyubimov
Animation by Coraline Yijie Wang
Production Design by Nisa Neza
Sound Designe by Judith Moy
Music by Ching-Shan Chang
Color Correction by Jeremy Liguori
VFX by Josh Kane
Starring Laura Arten, Rebekah Madebach, Steve Fogelman, Kat Harley, Gregory Gelfand, Michael Jared Thomas, Yuri Yakor and Lena Lipavsky