H.C.E. (2006)

"Dad, when you gonna be home?" says the voice on the answering machine. "I really, really, really wanna put on a show." And with that a little girl with angel's wings tells a story (her father's story), a journey through 4,000 years of Western civilization. Touches on everything from Egyptian, Greek, and Norse mythology to the French Revolution and World War II, and then on to September 11. Obliquely inspired by Finnegan's Wake, and with appearances by Don Quixote, Socrates, Hamlet, Joan of Arc, Che Guevara, Little Red Riding Hood, Tristan and Isolde, St. Teresa of Avila, Franz Kafka, Hedda Gabler, and many more, the viewer is presented with a contemplation on desire and greed, hope and dreams, and love and death.