Films by Daniel Kremer

2010-10-17T18:31:00.001-07:00

The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour is Daniel Kremer's upcoming feature film. Max Plugin is a jaded relic of the 60's who has recently turned 57 years old. Currently in a state of high malaise, Max ran away from home at age 16 to hitchhike across country from Hibbing, Minnesota. A guru-like figure named Teschlock took Max under his wing when Max reached the Lost Coast area of California. Teschlock invited Max to come to India with him and a few other 'disciples' to live on an ashram. Max, following a truly transcendent meditation experience, declined and returned home to the bosom of his family to lead a different life, thinking he had been taken as far as he could be. Now, decades later, full of vague regret, Max finds himself in Uttar Pradesh in search of his guru's unknown grave-site. A year after arriving there, Master Teschlock went off and vanished one day in remote rural India, never to be heard from again. It is said that Teschlock buried himself, much akin to the Biblical fate of Moses. Max has now come to India for the first time to find the gravesite, following a trail of cryptic clues.

2011 / 106 minutes / Color / DVCAM 24P to 16mm / 2:20:1
Directed by Daniel Kremer; Written by Daniel Kremer and William Cully Allen, Produced by Erin Lovett Sherman, K.P. Rai and Kevin Eldridge; Director of Photography Aaron Hollander
Starring William Cully Allen (Maxwell Abraham Lowell Plugin), Glenn Walsh (Amos Liggett), Alanna Blair (Megan the Vegan), Julie Edelstein (Nessa Weymouth), William McKeever (Walt Sannfield), K.J. Linhein (The Honored Q. Mordechai Teschlock), Pappu Rai (Pappu), Prashant Pandey (Prashant), John Gross (Pascal the Hitcher), Khedo Rhajbor (Khedo the Fossil)

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2009-10-12T12:23:00.000-07:00

A Trip to Swadades is an award-winning feature film drama that tells the story of Schweitzer Haas (Robert Swenson), a 74-year-old retired professor who returns to Philadelphia, the city of his youth, for the first time in twenty years to visit his hermit brother Ezra (Glenn Walsh). The two have never quite seen eye-to-eye, but it seems that Ezra has developed a freakish steel-trap memory, and has been keeping complex memory logs to document their past. As a result, however, Ezra's apartment is a den of bad smells and filthy living conditions. When Schweitzer goes out to get his brother cleaning supplies and gets lost in the city he once knew like the back of his hand, he is found by old friend Claude Schoonover (Stephen Hatzai), a world-class cut-up with a wisecracking but nonetheless laconic "chauffeur" Doobie (Kenneth John McGregor). Claude and Schweitzer visit a place of importance from their past: an old shvitz bath-house. It is there that Schweitzer realizes that he must reconcile with his brother before it is too late and time ultimately runs out for him.

2008 / 65 minutes / Black-and-White / Super-16mm / 1.85:1
Written and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Produced by Colin Malone; Executive Producers Kevin Eldridge, Yvonne Yao and Phillip Schneider; Associate Producer Ephraim Asili; Director of Photography Aaron Hollander; Production Designer Paul Sylbert; Art Director Jeffrey Heinbach
Starring Robert Swenson (Schweitzer Haas), Glenn Walsh (Ezra Haas), Stephen Hatzai (Claude Schoonover), Kenneth John McGregor (Doobie), William Cully Allen (Joe the Grocer), Katya Quinn-Judge (Woman in Dream), Naoko Masuda (Strange Minstrel), Gregory Lytle (Young Ezra), Matthew Savoca (Young Schweitzer)

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2009-10-12T11:41:00.001-07:00

A Collection of Chemicals is an absurdist comedy/drama that tells the story of terminally bored recent widower Si Foster (William Cully Allen), an eccentric and terribly lonely puzzle of a man who is also a self-proclaimed eggplant connoisseur. His daughter Sonya (Katya Quinn-Judge) was kidnapped two years prior and, for reasons unknown to her, the ransom somehow never wound being paid. As the Fourth of July approaches and Si finds that he has virtually no one with whom to celebrate the holiday, he finally gets up the nerve to contact the kidnappers through their intermediary. He agrees to pay the ransom with the inheritance he was left and is soon reunited with her...only to find that she has accepted her captors as her new family and has grown to love them as such. Alas, the oddball Si is clueless and inept in interacting and trying to re-establish his relationship with her. But Sonya has a few tricks up her sleeve to get him to reveal why she was seemingly abandoned by her father two years prior...with the help of some strange cargo she has brought back home with her.

2009 / 28 minutes / Color / HD-24P / 1.78:1
Written, Photographed and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Produced by Kevin Eldridge, Yvonne Yao, William Cully Allen and Daniel Kremer; Associate Producers Aaron Hollander and Ephraim Asili; Executive Producers Max Margulies and Cynthia Eberly; Production Designer Charles Thackeray; Sound Design Andrei Litvinov and Alena Kruchkova; Graphic Designer Doctor Pizzoli
Starring William Cully Allen (Si Foster), Katya Quinn-Judge (Sonya Foster), Gabriel Allen (The Masked Man), Keith Baxter (The Pharmacist)

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2009-10-12T11:40:00.001-07:00

Yarns To Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home is a multi award-winning short autobiographical documentary essay film about using art as an escape from the limitations of a speech impediment. Filmmaker Daniel Kremer explores and parallels how Spalding Gray, the renowned monologue performance artist, used his own creative life as an escape from his own depression. An analogy is made to how the filmmaker used cinema to escape the pain of his stuttering disorder.

2007 / 15 minutes / Color/Black-and-White / DV/DVCAM / 1.33:1
Edited and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Associate Producer Michelle Parkerson; Featuring Photography by Peter Nicks; Additional Camerawork Max Margulies, John Gross and Colin Malone

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2009-10-12T11:39:00.000-07:00

Charles at the Threshold is a tender drama that tells the story of Charles and Sabina, two intelligent and well-read teenagers who have just graduated high school at the top of their class. They decide to get married at eighteen just one week after they graduate, only to divorce at the age of nineteen. The years pass and Charles, a self-professed “old soul,” begins seeing a woman named Jillian, a fragile free-spirit who had a child when she was twenty. When a seemingly typical friendly lunch meeting with Sabina approaches, Charles begins showing signs of anxiety—and from just observing him, Jillian realizes where the mysterious Charles’ true feelings may lie, and that the love he held held for Sabina might have been more than impulsive or lacking in maturity.

2006 / 27 minutes / Color / 24P / 1.66:1
Written and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Produced by Andrei Litvinov; Director of Photography Kyle Pahlow
Starring David Coleman (Charles), Liat Tayar (Sabina), Brooke Somers (Jillian)

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2009-10-12T11:38:00.000-07:00

Ceiling-Head Angel is filmmaker Daniel Kremer’s first piece of filmmaking shot entirely in New York City following his arrival from Philadelphia. This short narrative-documentary hybrid is a poignant and often hilarious examination of two men well past their prime. 85-year-old Joe very apparently struggles with a desire to retain the illusion of youth. 69-year-old Angel wakes up every morning and finds himself entranced and captivated by shapes he sees on his ceiling when he looks straight up, trying to perceive objects in abstract figures caused by the chipped ceiling paint. The curmudgeonly Joe cannot see, and perhaps refuses to see, these objects.

2008 / 10 minutes / Color / 24P / 1.78:1
Written, Photographed and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Associate Producer Ephraim Asili
Starring Angelo Selada (Angel) and Joseph Rechner (Joe)

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