The Depression Trilogy is a darkly surreal and experimental science fiction journey. The films dive into the lonely lives of individuals stuck in time, split in between realities and deteriorating due to a mysteriously influential digital force that infects their magical thinking.
The Year 4000
A sitcom family gets thrust into alternate dimensions following a car crash while on vacation. What is going on in The Year 4000?
The Astronaut Diet
A man with big ideas about how to save the world and a woman feeling at her lowest find a connection through a depressed digital rift in time.
One Eight Hundred
A decline into magical thinking creates an inter-dimensional opening for a mysteriously signal, that will ultimately consume humanity, one mind at a time. One, eight-hundred. Call now!
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Written, Directed, and Produced by DUSTIN PUEHLER
The Year 4000
Starring
SARAH EDDY – Daughter 5cinite
LAUREN S. DEATON – Mother 5cinite
DUSTIN PUEHLER – Father 5cinite
BRIAN BARBER – Boy 5cinite/Kyle
ANDREW GILBERT – The Doc.
NATHAN FRAZIER – Father Warrior of the Trash Tribe
TYLER PISTORIUS – Father Warrior of the Trash Tribe
REV. DAVID A HOLCOMBE – Father Warrior of the Trash Tribe
ZACH RUDD – Father Warrior of the Trash Tribe
JOHN DAVIES – Father Warrior of the Trash Tribe
LEW OJEDA – Father Hacker of the Trash Tribe
ANGELO NOTTOLI – Son 5cinite
The Astronaut Diet
Starring
ASTER GILBERT – Janet
SPENCER GUSDORF – Brad
TYLER PISTORIUS- Doug Smeehr Jr.
DUSTIN PUEHLER – Doug Smeehr
PAMELA STRATEMAN – Megan
IAN SHORT – Thomas
EVAN SAWDEY – Devin Kayak
ELIAS MASON – Newsman
JOHN DAVIES – #1 Astronaut Diet Fan
LEW ODEJA – Astronaut Diet Fan
LOREN GREENBLATT – Astronaut Diet Fan
CINDY NDIAYE – Astronaut Diet Fan
BRIANNA NUNES – Astronaut Diet Fan
NICK BERNARDI – Astronaut Diet Fan
TIERZA SCACCIA – Astronaut Diet Fan
MITEN SONI – Astronaut Diet Fan
ONE EIGHT HUNDRED
Starring
DUSTIN PUEHLER – Johnathan The Bad
AVA THRELKEL – Sarah The Finished
KENNY REED – Billy The Annoying
TYLER PISTORIUS – Dougie The Strange
BRIAN BARBER – Bobby Meringue
TIERZA SCACCIA – The Depressed Woman
NICK BERNARDI – The Depressed Man
ZACH RUDD – The Even More Depressed Man
PAMELA STRATEMAN – Earth Mother
KAI YOUNG – Savior 5cinite
DEANDREA BROWN – Queen Nebula
ALFREDO SANCHEZ – The Signal
MARTEL MANNING – Depression Fighter
JOSHUA MOANEY – Depression Fighter
JON RODRIGUEZ – Depression Fighter
WILL BENNETT – Depression Fighter
JEN BENNETT – Depression Fighter
CODY EVANS – Depression Fighter
PRISCILLA FONTANEZ – Depression Fighter
STEPHAN SCALABRINO – Depression Fighter
ADAM MICHAELS – Depression Fighter
CHRIS MCCLURE – Depression Fighter
Camera and Sound – KENNY REED, PRISCILLA FONTANEZ, DUSTIN PUEHLER, NATHAN FRAZIER
Original Music Composed by ANGELO NOTTOLI
Fight Choreography – BRIAN BARBER, KAI YOUNG, ALFREDO SANCHEZ
Post Production and Visual Effects – READY FREDDY FILMS
Assistant Directors – KENNY REED, BRIAN BARBER
Production Assistants – MICHAEL TENZER, NATHAN FRAZIER, MITEN SONI, CASEY NUNES
Produced by DUSTIN PUEHLER and THE RFF COLLECTIVE (Spencer Gusdorf, Patrick Timmons, Zach Seigel, Aster Gilbert, and Ava Threlkel)
SPECIAL THANKS
The entire cast, Aster Gilbert, Michael Tenzer (Song – Dollhouse), Casey Nunes, Matt Maxwell, Kirsten Andersen, Tori Clark, Philip Soulides, Chris McClure, Janet Clark, Emily Portner, Colin Fagan, Joe Brady, Zach Rudd, Tom Hush, Conor Cornelius, Kenny Reed, Ava Threlkel, Tyler Pistorius, Elias Mason, Evan Sawdey, June Yorke, Miten Soni, Sonal Soni, The Music of Samuel Barber and Claude Debussy, and Derrick
