Daniel Kremer Movies

  • 2023
    Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema

    Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema

    Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema

    02023HD

    The most that mainstream culture knows of the Talmud is from the finale scene of Schindler's List, when Yitzchok Stern hands Oskar Schinder an...

    Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
  • 2022
    Faultline

    Faultline

    Faultline

    02022HD

    A ten-year drought brings local ranches to the brink of disaster. The search for Bert Neville takes its toll on Rail and Mitra. They break up and...

    Faultline
  • 2022
    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

    02022HD

    A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema, and how these "codes" (in partnership with a production...

    Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
  • 2014
    Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss

    Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss

    Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss

    02014HD

    For over forty years, both from an international platform as well as from his local pulpit in The Bronx, Rabbi Avi Weiss has been an important voice...

    Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss
  • 2008
    Jim and the Infidels

    Jim and the Infidels

    Jim and the Infidels

    02008HD

    Ambitious film students Jim and Laura and their nihilist, restless group of film student friends decide to adapt Macbeth and shoot it with a mostly...

    Jim and the Infidels
  • 2022
    The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger

    The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger

    The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger

    02022HD

    Otto Preminger wasn't only one of the most famous directors of classic Hollywood. He was a presence, a brand, and the only one who rivaled Hitchcock...

    The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
  • 1970
    Even Just

    Even Just

    Even Just

    01970HD

    Jerry, an ambulance-chasing lawyer (and 8mm film hobbyist), lapses into a deep depression after he is scammed out of his retirement savings. His...

    Even Just
  • 2023
    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

    02023HD

    Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), The Boys from...

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
  • 2022
    Equinox Expressway

    Equinox Expressway

    Equinox Expressway

    02022HD

    An experimental short, mixing 8mm, super-8, 16mm, and iPhone video. On a trek through a rare California snowfall on a highway between L.A. and San...

    Equinox Expressway
  • 2011
    The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

    The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

    The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

    02011HD

    Carla Durkow is a filmmaker from Istanbul who screens her latest work, entitled Farewell Mighty Spirit, at a Philadelphia art gallery. Her...

    The Wind Blows Where It Wishes
  • 2022
    Xenolith Atlas

    Xenolith Atlas

    Xenolith Atlas

    02022HD

    An imagined plague diary

    Xenolith Atlas
  • 2006
    Charles at the Threshold

    Charles at the Threshold

    Charles at the Threshold

    02006HD

    Two brainy 18-year-olds, recent high-school graduates with fine future prospects, get married and then divorce one year later at age 19. Charles, a...

    Charles at the Threshold
  • 2022
    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures

    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures

    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures

    02022HD

    Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead with...

    La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
  • 2009
    A Collection of Chemicals

    A Collection of Chemicals

    A Collection of Chemicals

    02009HD

    Eccentric, bored recent widower Si Foster, a self-proclaimed eggplant connoisseur, is lonely. His daughter Sonya was kidnapped two years prior and,...

    A Collection of Chemicals
  • 1999
    Danny and the Scatman

    Danny and the Scatman

    Danny and the Scatman

    01999HD

    The story of how two people have chosen to deal with what many consider a disability. One is a young boy from Pittsburgh well on his way to realizing...

    Danny and the Scatman
  • 2017
    The Fourth Movement

    The Fourth Movement

    The Fourth Movement

    02017HD

    Four interlocking stories with a Jazz theme. Four Women go out to visit the sites of the jazz clubs where Lou, 65 and dying of cancer, claims she...

    The Fourth Movement
  • 2019
    Arid Cut

    Arid Cut

    Arid Cut

    02019HD

    Sky-high housing costs, rents no one can pay, urban development, and street crime make life difficult for RV dwellers in Berkeley, California. City...

    Arid Cut
  • 2017
    Summer Sacrament

    Summer Sacrament

    Summer Sacrament

    02017HD

    During one fateful summer, Richie is forced to deal with his mom's deportation and prepare for his First Holy Communion as a Catholic while living...

    Summer Sacrament
  • 2007
    Ben Fries the Slaves

    Ben Fries the Slaves

    Ben Fries the Slaves

    02007HD

    Fourteen year-old Ben Fries has a cult following, a 22-year-old girlfriend, and a mortal enemy named Rick Algarosa.

    Ben Fries the Slaves
  • 2016
    Next Week in Bologna

    Next Week in Bologna

    Next Week in Bologna

    02016HD

    Next Week in Bologna is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Italian Neo-Realism, shot in Rob Nilsson's Direct Action style. A pickpocket cinema projectionist in...

    Next Week in Bologna