Movies: Mike Cheslik

Marty, a lovelorn student at New York University, uncomfortably mingles with fellow members of his debate team at a college party, before breaking away from them entirely....

In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers....

An eccentric sea captain assembles a motley ship crew in a revenge mission to slay the sea monster lurking in Lake Michigan that killed his father....

An altruistic dream salesman writes his own dreams for the first time....

Suspicious boyfriend Spike goes to a party to bury thoughts about his deceitful girlfriend. Enticed by an exotic new girl and reminded of his dark childhood, he follows the lurking monster of his best nightmares, hoping to capture the ecstasy of yout...

Katie and Jake want to keep things platonic, too bad the teenage ghost haunting their new apartment has other plans!...

Jack and Lucas travel to the Midwest to attend their high school friend's wedding. Confined in a hotel room together, they're consumed by their own insecurities, as Jack tries to write the perfect wedding speech, while Lucas grapples with his romanti...

After Fred Pitts loses his job as a lawn care manager, he meets a fascinating techno-dancing girl and desperately struggles to regain a positive grasp on his negative life....

Remember the day you built a machine to make yourself grow up? Remember taking up coffee and losing interest in dinosaurs? If so, this anti-coming of age short film is about you. 'Max Ages' is about the unstoppable locomotive of age and the nostalgia...

When a beloved power couple breaks up, their mutual best friend Craig stages an elaborate sting operation to get them back together....

The bravest adventurer at The League of Interplanetary Process Servers attempts to deliver 30 subpoenas throughout the universe in only ten minutes....

The Wheels is a portrait of the relationship between an alcoholic father, John, and his seventeen year-old son, Harry....

Jake the Cinephile is the story of a young film fanatic who, fed up with the rowdy behavior and disrespectful etiquette of movie theater audiences, decides to abandon the cinema and take a stab at an actual relationship with a young woman....

Morgan Evans (The Onion News Network, The Rest of Caesar), plays himself in this fantastical comedy about a young man whose thoughts and fantasies get uploaded to YouTube against his will. After meeting Elaine, played by Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), M...

Having just graduated from anger management, Sean's ready to become a new person, but between his past and his surroundings, he'll discover that there's no way you can change who you are....

MISSED CONNECTION follows Jamie Nichols, the awkward and slightly desperate girl you took to dinner and a movie, and then dumped on the front stoop of her Brooklyn apartment....

Brad, a young new transplant to New York City, returns from a trip 'home' to tell his brother that he never went on vacation...he went to see his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her. Beautiful ring in hand, optimism in his eyes,...

Jack and Kathy have a daughter with cerebral palsy and an uncompromising love for each other. A short film about limitations....

Jack Kyser's first film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha....

The night of his birthday, a loser tries to distance himself from his annoying childhood friend as they crash parties and debate who has lower self-esteem....