Winner of the Student Academy Award®
"Beautiful and Harrowing" - Huffington Post
15 min. Shot on 35 mm and 8mm film
SYNOPSIS:
"When a young Nazi finds a theater troupe of survivors celebrating the end of WWII in an abandoned Polish theater, he is forced to realize his role in their grief."
FESTIVALS // AWARDS:
Student Academy Awards®
- Gold Medal, Alternative Category
24fps International Film Festival
- Kurosawa Award for Creative Excellence, David Henry Gerson
- Best Production Design, Daniela Medeiros
FIC Autor International Film Festival, Mexico
- Best Experimental Short Film
Las Vegas International Film Festival
- Best International Short
Rhode Island International Film Festival
- Best Editing, Spencer Koobatian
Windrider International Student Film Festival
- Cinematic Storytelling Award, David Henry Gerson
DIRECTED BY David Henry Gerson
WRITTEN BY David Henry Gerson, Martin Horvat, and Brennan Peters
PRODUCED BY Beatrice von Schwerin
STARRING Harrison Thomas, Beata Pozniak, Kristof Konrad, Kinga Philipps, Anthony Nikolchev, and Kasia Kowalczyk
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY Eli Arenson
PRODUCTION DESIGN BY Daniela Medeiros
EDITING BY Spencer Koobatian
CASTING BY Stacia Kimler, Bialy/Thomas and Associates
SOUND DESIGN BY Nathan Ruyle / This Is Sound Design
ORIGINAL SCORE BY Brian McOmber
WITH MUSIC BY The Warsaw Village Band
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Celia Rowlson-Hall
a film by David Henry Gerson
"Totally Engaging!" – Albert Maysles
“A gem of a little film” – The Huffington Post
“Fully engrossing and totally cool” – Film News Briefs
Acquired into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Ultra Violet - mistress to Salvador Dali, muse to Andy Warhol, and a born-again Mormon - reveals in this sixteen minute portrait her untold tale of spiritual rebirth and her iconic perspective on fame, art, and religion. Includes rare photographs from her past, and Andy Warhol’s screen-test of Ultra Violet from 1965.
Official Selection:
A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival 2011, Pompidou Museum, Paris
Be Film Festival NYC 2010
DC Independent Film Festival 2010
Nashville Film Festival 2011
New Filmmakers New York Film Festival 2010
New Jersey International Film Festival 2010
Slamdance Film Festival 2011
Visionfest Film festival NYC 2010
Woods Hole Film Festival 2010
A short film by David Henry Gerson
"Dynamite!" - Abel Ferrara
"Truly excellent. A taut, vivid, disturbing portrait of a military man in trouble...makes me understand a man's unfathomable actions." - John Patrick Shanley
An American veteran returns home from military service to his undocumented immigrant girlfriend. After killing for his country, and suffering from PTSD, he is tormented by the idea that his lover might be using him as a means to gain citizenship. The clash of their traumatic pasts leads to an explosive and tragic collision between these two alienated young Americans.
DIRECTOR: DAVID HENRY GERSON
MUSIC: LEXIE ROTH
CHOREOGRAPHY: ANTHONY NIKOLCHEV
CINEMATOGRAPHY: AARON KOVALCHIK
FEATURING: DION PRATT, LEXIE ROTH, FALLON BROOKING, DANNY CRON, B EHST, NATASHA GRAVIA LUND, GENEVA HAMILTON, JOANA KNEZEVIC, LAQUAN LEWIS, PETER MARK GUIMARAES, CASEY MELONE, FERNANDO MITRE, ALEXANDRIA SALEEM, ABIGAIL STANTON, HANAH TRUJILLO, CHRISTOPHER YARROW & NOGA YECHIELI
SHOT ON LOCATION AT CAL ARTS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
DP: ZACH LANOUE
WITH: KAYLA MARIE AND MARLEY CHAPMAN
DP: ELI ARENSON
Featuring: Max Silberman
Music: "Warm" by SG Lewis
DP: Craig Boydston
PLANETARIUM
“Planetarium is a short film celebrating the radical power of women. Liv Colliander and David Henry Gerson’s fantastical visual, narrated by Maripol, breathes new life into Adrienne Rich’s feminist poem.”I-D // Vice
Directed by Liv Colliander + David Henry Gerson
Poem by Adrienne Rich
Performed by Maripol
Featuring // Caribay Franke, Cecile Cubilo, Jakiyah Cabell, Emily J. Snyder, Alyssa Osorio, Mary Eileen O’Donnell, Josie Dapar, Zenia palkhivala, Alma Gerson, Daniela Gerson, Daphne Nguyen, Lily James, Avery Wilcox, Jean Grant, Ngaire Dawn Fair, Francesca Gámez, Liz Alvarez, Amanda Siara, Mahsa Ahmadi , Olamipo Somoye, Charlie Kanter, Camila Caceres, Julia Sklar, Kimberly Gomez
Producer // Fabien Colas
Production Company // Kite Rock Pictures
Cinematographer // Kai Krause
Composer // Katy Jarzebowski
Stylist // Sam Muglia
Hair + Makeup //Danielle Arroyo
Ms. Von Rey's Hair + Makeup // Kimberly Romo
Assistant Camera // Christopher Kistan
2nd Assistant Camera // Paulina Zamorano
Sound Mixer // Nicolas Pacheco
16 MM FILM // KODAK
Film Processing // Fotokem
Adrienne Rich, "Planetarium" from Collected Poems: 1950-2012. Copyright © 2016 by The Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Copyright © 1971 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Recorded by permission of the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
COPYRIGHT @ 2018 Liv Colliander + David Henry Gerson