Kristian Day Movies

A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.

After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks...

After a freak accident, a disturbed priest is transformed into a mutated killing machine on a mission to wipe out the godless fans of heavy metal...

A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world's...

Andrew Lakewood seems to be a normal average guy. He was raised by a loving family and has a close relationship with his older brother. His...

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

Blue (writer-director Rhiana Yazzie) is a 35 year-old singer-songwriter, struggling in Minneapolis’ winter. Her creativity seems to be...

Set in the backwoods of rural Iowa, this is Regan and Addisyn's last summer after high school. Growing up next door to each other, the girls are as...

The shots used in this piece were from first test shots with the Mobile Phone 60x microscope. Subjects included the fur of a cat, hair of a girl, a...

Deep river valleys, tall limestone bluffs sawing through the sky… thousands of years ago, this unique portion of the Midwest escaped the...

Phil and Colin Beverly are two inept small-town brothers with big dreams, and a song-and-dance rock group to take them there. When they learn of a...

Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186)....

Delves into the history of the most extreme and shocking films that have ever been made. chronicles the timeline of Red Films: those films that are...

Ratified is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, an inspiring story of a multi-racial,...

In 2011, Webster City, Iowa, experienced a massive economic shift after the town's large appliance manufacturing plant shut down. This left many...

In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker...

Bill has problems. He lost his job and his girlfriend, he quit the band, his medications are running out, and now there is a dead body in the bathtub.

Nearly an hour of amazing footage, pictures, music, and stories about Des Moines' moviegoing past that will surely make you see our town in an...

The film tells the story of a woman reflecting on a painful part of her past as she writes. Although we do not see what she has written, we do see...