Uriah Neabar

Biography

Uriah "Elliot" Neabar is an American filmmaker whose work centers on psychologically driven narrative cinema shaped by memory, emotion, and subjective experience. His films approach storytelling through an intimate visual language that blends realism with atmospheric abstraction, using fiction as a way to reinterpret emotional truth rather than replicate autobiography. Much of his work is loosely informed by personal experiences, filtered into constructed narratives that explore identity, perception, and internal conflict through a deeply emotional tone. Neabar’s creative foundation began in visual storytelling and broadcast media. In 2019, he participated in a televised production through a “Young Producers’ Workshop,” where he worked as both a camera operator and on-screen interviewer. This early exposure to live media and structured production environments introduced him to professional storytelling workflows and visual communication under real-time constraints. Between 2020 and 2022, Neabar worked under the mentorship of a media marketing and real estate production professional, contributing to commercial and branded video projects. This period provided hands-on experience in cinematography, editing, production coordination, and client-based visual storytelling. Alongside this, he developed a self-directed study of filmmaking craft, focusing on behind-the-scenes production analysis, visual effects workflows, and cinematic composition, heavily influenced by independent digital filmmaking resources and technical breakdowns. Neabar’s interest in narrative storytelling began earlier, with story writing dating back to 2018, inspired by comics and structured narrative media. Over time, his creative practice expanded into photography, early video experimentation, and music production, where he explored audio mixing, mastering, and electronic composition. These parallel disciplines contributed to a broader understanding of rhythm, tone, and emotional pacing within visual storytelling. As his creative identity evolved, Neabar developed a filmmaking approach rooted in emotional realism and psychological observation. His work consistently explores subjective perception, memory distortion, and internal emotional states, often using restrained visual language and atmospheric composition to reflect character psychology rather than external spectacle. In 2026, Neabar released the short narrative film, Fragmented, where he served as director, writer, editor, and lead actor. The film follows a psychologically destabilized protagonist experiencing fragmented memory and altered perception following trauma, aligning with Neabar’s continued interest in internal narrative structures and subjective reality. Across his work, Neabar maintains a focus on emotionally immersive storytelling that prioritizes character psychology, atmosphere, and internal experience. His films exist within a cinematic space where realism and abstraction intersect, using visual composition and narrative form to explore how memory, emotion, and identity distort perception of reality.