Frank Mosley

Frank Mosley

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Biography: Frank Mosley is an actor and filmmaker from Texas living in Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami. His directing work includes Good Condition (Fantasia 2023), Parthenon (Slamdance 2018), Casa De Mi Madre (Champs-Elysees 2017), and The Event (Fantastic Fest 2022), which debuted as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was named a "Top 12 Film of 2023" on NoBudge. Acting credits include Obex (Sundance 2025, Oscilloscope Laboratories), Rent Free (Tribeca 2024, Vinegar Syndrome), Quantum Cowboys (Fantastic Fest 2022, Factory 25), Freeland (SXSW 2020, MUBI), Chained for Life (NYTimes Critics Pick 2018, Kino Lorber), The Procedure (Sundance Jury Prize 2016, Adult Swim), Collective Unconscious (SXSW 2016, The Criterion Channel), and Upstream Color (Sundance Jury Prize, Berlinale 2013). He's been called "a superb actor and filmmaker" (RogerEbert.com) and "a dependably fantastic American indie mainstay" (Filmmaker Magazine).

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Black Soil, Green Grass
Black Soil, Green Grass

A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and e...

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Don't Die
Don't Die

Jenks has been pushed to the brink by a system that does not care about him. Desperate for life-savi...

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Wednesday
Wednesday

Wednesday is a story of life, love, loss, and redemption. It is divided into four separate segments:...

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Innards
Innards

A former child actor reconnects with his twin brother to discuss a role they once shared--as the lea...

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Boundaries
Boundaries

Two men design and build a detention center....

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Kin
Kin

In this poetic, fragmented portrait set in rural Oregon, three white millennials struggle to come to...

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Knife
Knife

Set in rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit. In the beginning we see...

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The Finger
The Finger

An isolated man agonizes over his response to economic woes and an uncaring system....

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Go Fuck Yourself Oliver
Go Fuck Yourself Oliver

Oliver is having the worst day....

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Dear Mr. Brody
Dear Mr. Brody

A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give...

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Wuss
Wuss

The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by se...

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The Event
The Event

It's 2 AM, and Vince just wants to know why....

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Raps
Raps

When Daniel is sent to a CEDU school, part of America's troubled teen industry in the late 90s, he i...

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Katja Dreams of Waking Up
Katja Dreams of Waking Up

Katja (27) lives in Berlin and dreams every night of her own death, and her waking hours are a const...

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Kiddo
Kiddo

An expectant couple's parenting skills are put to the test when a hungry stranger shows up on their ...

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El Tonto Por Cristo
El Tonto Por Cristo

A monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a holy fool....

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The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise

"The Other Side of Paradise" is a highly entertaining comedy about a girl named Rose who embarks on ...

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Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown
Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown

Bailey has settled into his new country home and has a crush on a dog from the other side of the fen...

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Invaders from Venus!
Invaders from Venus!

A small Texas town battles intergalactic invaders....

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The Ladies of the House
The Ladies of the House

A reluctant birthday celebration starts out innocently enough but quickly turns into three men’s des...

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Rent Free
Rent Free

After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme...

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OBEX
OBEX

Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, ...

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Love and Work
Love and Work

Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is ille...

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The Prowler
The Prowler

A lonely man walks the streets of an upscale neighborhood at night....

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They Want Me Gone
They Want Me Gone

Working hard to support her daughter, Monica is a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapp...

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You Are Your Body / You Are Not Your Body
You Are Your Body / You Are Not Your Body

A group of estranged siblings must reconcile with the past when the death of their mother coincides ...

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Sabbatical
Sabbatical

After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and comp...

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Some Beasts
Some Beasts

A stoic farmhand in Appalachia is haunted by a mysterious presence in the woods as he cultivates his...

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Americana
Americana

An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder....

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Puncher's Chance
Puncher's Chance

A struggling single father and former Boxer, reluctantly takes a match on short notice....

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Taurus
Taurus

A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself...

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And By We I Mean Me
And By We I Mean Me

A conservative business owner gets a rude awakening when his sister-in-law stops by to talk about hi...

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Deadendz
Deadendz

Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in b...

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They Had It Coming
They Had It Coming

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us ...

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White Creek
White Creek

White Creek is a place from another universe. A place where feudalism remains intact and people stru...

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Don't Look in the Basement 2
Don't Look in the Basement 2

In 1972, the patients and doctors at Stephens Sanitarium were brutally murdered. Over forty years la...

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The Procedure
The Procedure

A man is tranquilized on the street numb and finds himself tied up in empty room. But what is that t...

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Person to Person
Person to Person

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected prob...

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Cork's Cattlebaron
Cork's Cattlebaron

A young protege and his boss sit down for the most epic steak dinner of their lives in Omaha, Nebras...

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Suburbanite
Suburbanite

John, a white-collar family man, finds his life turned upside down when he hits a man on his way hom...

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Destroyer
Destroyer

An insecure man's compulsion to know his partner's secrets leads him on an underworld descent where ...

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The Seagull (but like, not Chekhov)
The Seagull (but like, not Chekhov)

A patient struggles to see why a disturbing pattern is being perpetuated in his life....

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Ghosts of Empire Prairie
Ghosts of Empire Prairie

Empire Prairie, where Lonnie Enright grew up. He's headed home now, to see his ailing father and lit...

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Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes

Jerry and Carl have conned their way from one small Texas town to another, but things go haywire whe...

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The Bulb
The Bulb

Two strangers experience an alien phenomenon through the public access broadcast in a motel room....

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No Hands
No Hands

Over drinks, an old friend reveals a wild masturbation technique that must be experienced to be beli...

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Don't Ever Change
Don't Ever Change

The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request....

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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are fin...

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Coyotes Kill for Fun
Coyotes Kill for Fun

A backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his ...

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Collective: Unconscious
Collective: Unconscious

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The f...

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Upstream Color
Upstream Color

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity beco...

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Chained for Life
Chained for Life

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur...

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The Ghost Who Walks
The Ghost Who Walks

An imprisoned criminal rats out his former boss for one last chance to reunite his family and become...

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The Phantom 52
The Phantom 52

Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost th...

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Thunder Road
Thunder Road

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother....

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Freeland
Freeland

Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life....

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Two Story
Two Story

A visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the va...

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I Could Live in Hope
I Could Live in Hope

A looped video installation shot in Seattle in fall 2010. A disembodied and seemingly innocuous conv...

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A Feast of Man
A Feast of Man

Five socialites are put to the test when their recently-deceased friend asks them to commit the ulti...

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Quantum Cowboys
Quantum Cowboys

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's...

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Ilsa
Ilsa

Featuring Bella Samman in the title role and Frank Mosley as her driver’s ed instructor. It is a mis...

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The Carnivores
The Carnivores

Alice and Bret's dog Harvie is dying, and he's ruining everything. What had been a bright little fam...

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Panhandle Jim
Panhandle Jim

An experimental short film about a man on a self destructive journey....

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Dogbite
Dogbite

A series of strange phone calls force a man into a whirlwind of violence....

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The Cellist
The Cellist

For 25 years, Avron Coleman performed cello with the New York Philharmonic, as well as in numerous i...

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Leave
Leave

Billy the Marine's last day home before going back to Iraq. Realizing he may never come back, he tri...

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Lions' Den
Lions' Den

A group of old friends are hanging at one of their houses exchanging stories of sexual escapades, aw...

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Gallows Road
Gallows Road

Loss and heartbreak challenges one man to forgive the unforgivable....

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Relation
Relation

Scott and Amanda have an announcement. Over Sunday dinner they admit to their father and younger bro...

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Reunion
Reunion

A man happens to run into an old acquaintance from high school while on a hike in the woods....

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I'm Not Sure
I'm Not Sure

Charlie, a depressed night manager of a motel, and Bridgette, a young naive woman on the brink of ad...

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Reunion
Reunion

A man happens to run into an old acquaintance from high school while on a hike in the woods....

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The Plan
The Plan

Inside a modest Los Angeles apartment over the course of a single day, a group of disillusioned youn...

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Gus is my Brother
Gus is my Brother

A filmmaker hires an actor to recreate memories from childhood in order to explore an estranged fami...

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Fur
Fur

Albert, a melancholic logger, heads into the Canadian wilderness in 1924 to pan for gold and change ...

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A Fresh Hell
A Fresh Hell

A once-prominent leftist podcaster struggles to break into comedy after his co-hosts get canceled. H...

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