Stephen Bell

2021 American Zoetrope Finalist. Based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the infamous Japanese guerrilla fighter who held out on a remote island in the Philippines and fought World War II for 30 YEARS after the war ended. Onoda’s war is a war of occupation, waged by a man-on-a-mission who became a man-out- of-time -- a modern myth.

2022 Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist. When a genius roboticist learns that he is nothing more than an android copy of his human self — one of countless single-serving, disposable duplicates — he plots to steal back “his” family and evade the corporation that created him — desperate to stay off the scrap heap and save the only life he's ever known. A scifi-action satire combining the speculative science and ultraviolence of Robocop and Westworld with the domestic focus of A History of Violence, exploring themes of narcissism, neoliberalism, and corporate exploitation.