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Director/editor Ariel Gardner was born August 1, 1989 in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from San Francisco State with a Bachelor's in Cinema in 2012.

Along with his collaborator Alex Kavutskiy, Gardner cut his teeth in the filmmaking collective of Channel 101, creating a number of memorable cinematic web-series with such as "Breaking Good" (2012), "Murderers" (2013), "Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing" (2014) and "Kill The Baby" (2015). Kill The Baby, a frenetic & stylized black comedy about the chaos that ensues following a father's decision to kill his child, was awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick.

In 2015, Alex & Ariel completed their first feature-length film "On The Rocks" (2017), an adaptation of a pilot they made for Channel 101 featuring many performers from the community.

In 2016, they have made a number of short films for their live show "Alex & Ariel's Six Flags Magic Mountain." Among the shorts are "Judy," "Sound Speeds," "A Ripple of Nothing Significant," and "Nancy."

Cites P.T. Anderson, Martin Scorsese, John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Noah Baumbach, the Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick &amp; David Lynch as influences.

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