Films by Daniel Kremer

Sophisticated Acquaintance is perhaps the most unusual film project in Daniel Kremer’s filmography, in that it began production in November 2006, continuing until mid-2007 when director Daniel Kremer abandoned the film to pursue other projects.  Over five and a half years later, in 2012, Kremer returns to finish the film, changing many things from the cut he left behind and reconsidering and otherwise reinventing the content.  Known for making films that polarize audiences, Kremer holds by this tradition more than ever in Sophisticated Acquaintance.  Experimenting with a much more fragmentary form of do-it-yourself  filmmaking, mixing elements of narrative, experimental and documentary in an unlikely but strangely pleasing stew, the film is the portrait of a tormented individual whose short life and long death were affected by a great many factors.  It is a film about the creative process,   the heartbreaking depiction of a rigid father-son  relationship and the need to connect…and,  most of all,  it is a film about individuality.  Filmmaker John Gross plays Klaus Mann, a stylized and fictionalized version on the real writer of the same name.  Klaus lives in the shadow of his father, the successful intellectual, novelist and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann (Ernst Hohmann).  Featuring a soundtrack of artists from the fiercely independent Constellation Records label, Sophisticated Acquaintance is a film that is sure to intrigue, vex, exhilarate and challenge.  Formerly known as Umlaut: The Klaus Mann Project.

2007 / 74 minutes / Color / 1.33:1
Produced and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Written by Daniel Kremer and Eric Jeitner; Music by Black Ox Orkestar
Starring John Gross (Klaus Mann), Ernst Hohmann (Thomas Mann), Katya Quinn-Judge (Gia), Maya Baruch (Sprezzi Milton), William Cully Allen (Sidney Imbanathan), Glenn Walsh (Bruce Jummaquin), Patricia Fries (Klaus' Landlord), David Allen (Spellacy), Brooke Somers (Carrot Girl)

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