Jackie Nova

Motel -- A strange researcher and a janitor are exploring the nature of time with Q-tips in a cheap motel room when a 'real-estate agent' on her way to a very important meeting has a stomach emergency and has to use their bathroom.

The Motel -- The Motel

Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau) at the front desk of THE MOTEL, written and directed by Michael Kang. Photo: Jonathan Grassi Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean American man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.

Tucker (Trevor Moore) teaches Eugene (Zach Cregger) on the proper etiquette of the bath robe.