Darius Clark Monroe never graduated from high school because he made the foolish choice to rob a bank and ended up in jail. But after his release, he obtained not only his GED, but a Masters of Fine Arts in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

This is only one of his films chosen to be shown here because it was, at one point, named on the Vimeo’s Staff Picks. See the rest of Monroe’s short films on his website here.