15 min. Shot on 35 mm and 8mm film
a film by David Henry Gerson
"Beautiful and harrowing" - Huffington Post
Winner of the 2016 Student Academy Award
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."
Told from the point of view of a third generation director from a family of Holocaust survivors, half German and half Polish, the film is an examination, 70 years later, of how we might exorcize the passed on traumas of that war.
With Harrison Thomas, Beata Pozniak, Kristof Konrad, Kinga Philipps, Anthony Nikolchev, and Kasia Kowalczyk
Directed by David Henry Gerson
Written by David Henry Gerson, Martin Horvat, and Brennan Peters
Produced by Beatrice von Schwerin
Cinematography by Eli Arenson
Production design by Daniela Medeiros
Editing by Spencer Koobatian
Casting by Stacia Kimler, Bialy/Thomas and Associates
Sound by Nathan Ruyle / This Is Sound Design
Music by Brian McOmber
Choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall
a 2015 AFI thesis film
ULTRA VIOLET FOR SIXTEEN MINUTES
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
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.
Acquired into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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
AMERICAN STANDARD
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
Sgt. John Richards, an American veteran returns home from military service in Afghanistan to his undocumented immigrant girlfriend. After killing for his country, and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, 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.
Based in part on the stories of the film’s star, Sgt. Marco Reininger, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film also features Sgt. Reininger’s personal iPhone footage of the war in Afghanistan, where he is now again serving.
DP: Edward Keating
Editor: Nick Ellsberg
With Marco Reininger and Alexandra Metz
Run Time 13:00, Copyright Caesura Media, LLC 2012
SPEC
DP: Marianne Williams
COCO NOIR (SPEC)
Director: David Henry Gerson
DP: Hayna Hutchins
Director: David Henry Gerson
DP: Kai K. Krause
Production Company: Virgin Soil Pictures
Rosalee 'Hmmm" Music Video
DP: Eli Arenson
Director / Editor: David Henry Gerson
DP: Craig Boydston
Music: "Warm" by SG Lewis
Featuring: Maximillian Silberman
Produced by and Starring David Henry Gerson
Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award
Written and Directed by Matthew Lessner (montelomax.com)
SYNOPSIS: Levi Gold (David Henry Gerson) is paid an unexpected visit by Robin (Kris Park), a door-to-door salesman with nothing to sell. The ensuing encounter forces Levi to confront his true mystical calling, and the nature of reality itself. A metaphysical comedy trip-out with music and performance by Sun Araw.
Starring Kris Park, David Henry Gerson, and Bobby McGee - with Cameron Stallones and Alina Aliluykina
Featuring music and performance by Sun Araw (sunaraw.com)
Produced by David Henry Gerson and Vanessa Gazy
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