Jake McLaughlin
Arielle Kebbel
Theo Rossi
Miki Ishikawa
Yoson An

starring

While inspecting an abandoned military test facility, Neil Bardo and his boss experience a mind-altering time distortion. Soon after, haunting hallucinations of strangers and troubling events from the past bleed into Neil’s reality while in contact with family and friends. One such traumatic vision leads to an accident that nearly blinds his son. With his life unraveling around him and his son’s sight hanging in the balance, Neil must race to uncover the secrets of the facility and the hallucinations that plague him with increasing intensity... before it's too late.

synopsis

Deadline Article

written and directed by

Jason Eric Perlman

SITE is a product of my personal journey through pain. Wrestling with regret, self-judgment, and guilt, as I believe many of us do, I started to ask why the same negative outcomes visit us, no matter the number of perceived course corrections. Why do certain traumas revisit us again and again or in subtly different guises? I found recourse in metaphysics as I searched to understand why we are so often hopelessly entangled with the same problematic patterns in our lives. I looked to the Kabbalah, the Bhagavad Gita, and Buddhist texts concerning the concepts of karma, reincarnation, and the transmigration of souls. Did I find absolute answers? No. But I found the new questions I was asking to be even more interesting. SITE became my outlet for working out these timeless mysteries. Making the film was, in so many ways, an examination of the self-same themes that suffuse the story. SITE is an examination of why we sabotage ourselves and our relationships. While we do this with an inherently sci-fi (and hopefully thrilling) bent, my fellow filmmakers and I believe that SITE will connect with audiences on a deeper level. To borrow from Baynard Rustin, this film is about finding out the hard way that, indeed, we are all one.
— Director's Statement

Named #4 in LA Weekly's "Top 10 Entertainment Professionals to Watch in 2023," Jason is an accomplished WGA screenwriter, director, and producer. He has collaborated on 20+ feature films since completing USC's graduate school of Cinematic Arts. With SITE as his second feature film as both writer and director, Jason has found a unique thematic focus on the collision of the secular psyche with spirituality. Within both his television writing and feature work, Perlman has consistently explored metaphysics by way of what some have dubbed his "Third Eye Thrillers." As an artist, he is also committed to environmental themes and how they shape our global humanity.