Kristian Day Movies

Toby is a smaller than average dog who dreams of leading Santa's sleigh. After sneaking on to his sleigh one night, he's accidentally left behind and...

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...

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

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

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

A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.

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...

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...

A backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and...

A couple of young women are abducted and become the unwilling stars of a snuff film, wherein they are brutally tortured.

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.

A man finds himself in a padded room to prevent him from battering himself to death – an option he would have considered in due course, as the...

Inspired by true events that took place sometime in 1993, Jimmy & Jack DeGrasso, two brothers, went on a blood soaked killing spree of vengeance, for...

Recognized for his distinctive wolf costume and boisterous social media antics, Xaviar Babudar aka ChiefsAholic rose to fame as one of Kansas City's...

A self portrait filmed with a modified PXL 2000 Camcorder. The camcorder itself records on to audio cassette tape. The tapes themselves are recycled...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The Iowa State Fair draws millions of people to the city of Des Moines every year. However, this film is not about the Iowa State Fair or the people...