Scout Tafoya Movies

Two girls check into a hotel room with a few bags and a shoebox full of money. They have a lot of pain behind them and a lot more to come.

A riff on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, examining the passions that have anchored love stories for centuries. Jane loved Roderick, until they...

A film about the 2000s, as seen through Late Night TV music appearances.

A woman gathers her oldest friends for a weekend in Atlantic City to celebrate her engagement

An imagined plague diary

Not long ago the people of an unnamed country were involved in a civil war. After the armistice, both sides noticed hundreds of bodies unaccounted...

A depressed filmmaker takes on a new project that might help him break into the mainstream or drive him further into despair and reclusivity.

There is a vampire who has been quietly stalking the streets of New York City for a hundred years. When she saves a young woman from being sexually...

A ghost realizes her ex-boyfriend can see her as she languishes in the afterlife.

What it feels like to be left behind.

Two girls on a car trip can't speak about the traumatic event that ties them together.

A love triangle is complicated by unemployment, expectations and the living dead.

Grieving widows, a detective, an errand boy, and more vie to be the one to kill a gambler.

On how the camera performs.

Video essay about the 1927 film 'The Cat and the Canary'.

An essay film

On Otto Rank, Wombs, Water, Sex, Doubles, and Cinema.

A movie about the Donkey Show, a disco-themed reinvention of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

An essay about films about flying.