Two Short Films by Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D.

Two Short Films by Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D.

2 Episodes

While Charlie Kaufman is best known for cerebral, intricately constructed metafictions like ANOMALISA and SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, his recent collaborations with writer Eva H.D. find him working in a different mode: impressionistic, intuitive, and vividly sensorial. Both city symphonies of a kind, these two shorts—the restless New York cine-poem JACKALS & FIREFLIES and the aching, Athens-set elegy HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST, starring Jessie Buckley—drift dreamily through the urban landscape, finding bruising poignancy in the small, fleeting moments and encounters that give life its infinite richness.

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Two Short Films by Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D.

2 Episodes

  • Jackals & Fireflies
    20:10
    Jackals & Fireflies
    Episode 1

    Jackals & Fireflies

    Episode 1

    Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2023 • United States
    Starring Eva H.D.

    Director Charlie Kaufman adapts a poem by Eva H.D. into an evocative meditation on New York City. A woman (played by the writer) drifts through the city—riding buses and trains, lingering in bars and coffee shops, moving across...

  • How to Shoot a Ghost
    27:41
    How to Shoot a Ghost
    Episode 2

    How to Shoot a Ghost

    Episode 2

    Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2025 • United States, Greece
    Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki

    Part ghost story, part city symphony, this elegiac short directed by Charlie Kaufman traces the meeting of two recently deceased young people—a troubled photographer (Jessie Buckley) and a gay transla...

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