Angelique Jackson As director Brian Taylor (“Crank,” “Crank: High Voltage,” “Mom and Dad”) watched the NFT market expand from digital paintings and photography to musical projects and beyond, the filmmaker decided to get in on the action, crafting a new experimental short film with Christopher Meloni.“You hardly ever get to be first in anything in my business,” Taylor tells Variety, explaining why he decided to get in on the NFT craze.