Leonardo Pirondi Movies

Set in the landscapes of Los Angeles, this hybrid documentary seeks to explore harmful cyclical occurrences that exploit natural resources and bring...

An imaginary look back at the present and distant past from the point of view of the year 2049. The return of an exile to Los Angeles decades after...

In 1934 an experiment by an amateur-scientist couple began. Named after a genus of moths, the Automeris Project placed a group of young children in...

A cave named 'Gruta de las Pesadillas' was known to be a place whereby entering the cave with a torch or lamp, you would see your darkest nightmares...

This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist...

“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current...

Dr. Eva Ray is 90 years old. She lives in a house by herself outside of Philadelphia. Born in former Yugoslavia, her family fled the Nazis and...

an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA

The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore maps from...

The rendering of an impeccably constructed computer-generated image displays a disarranged home. Filmed on 16mm and hand-processed, the image is...

A visual accompaniment to Tōru Takemitsu's sonically sparse composition 'Corona for Pianist(s)'. Taking inspiration from the graphic score that...

A meditation on the relationship between humans, nature, and technology.

This film is an invitation for a new kind of horror film. Partially inspired by Freud's "The Uncanny" and the exploration of the etymology of the...

A film that explores the intersection of a virtual and analog image. Through the hand-processed 16mm and 3D simulation, the film questions what...

In Search of Mount Analogue journeys through ocean and land, bringing life to the imagined, metaphorical, and mysterious island from the 1952 novel,...

iPhone video and SMPTE color bars were filmed on 16mm at 24fps. The digital overscan of the celluloid is played back at 0.24fps (1% of the original...

Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, a continuous home development creeps into nature's threshold, and a community celebrates freedom....

This is Mine, This is Yours. Do not take mine and I may or may not take yours. A meditation on the unnatural lines drawn by human beings.