Daniel Kremer

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Daniel Kremer

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Jul 23, 1984 (41 years old)

Daniel Kremer

Known For

Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
2h 14m
Movie 2024

Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears...

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
0h 23m
Movie 2024

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know...

Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film
0h 29m
Movie 2023

Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film

Lenny Bruce's depiction on film did not start or end...

Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
0h 37m
Movie 2023

Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many...

Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
0h 27m
Movie 2023

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

The most that mainstream culture knows of the Talmud is...

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
1h 39m
Movie 2023

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film...

Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
0h 42m
Movie 2023

Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount

Canadian-born filmmaker Sidney J. Furie made his name with British...

Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
0h 18m
Movie 2023

Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and...

Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
0h 18m
Movie 2022

Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and...

The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
0h 21m
Movie 2022

The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972

Between One Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Godfather (1972), Marlon...

Biography

Filmmaker, film historian, biographer, and professional film archivist Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University's film program and now lives in San Francisco. In 2007, while living in Philadelphia, he directed his first feature Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007). His second feature A Trip to Swadades (2008), which was shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, won three Best Feature Film awards. Following that film's international festival tour (which included Rotterdam), he moved to New York City, where he lived for nearly seven years. At one point, he studied to be an Orthodox rabbi, but gave it up to continue pursuing film. In 2011, he completed his acclaimed follow-up feature, The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011). The film was lensed predominantly in India. Subsequent to that, he directed Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015), Ezer Kenegdo (2017), Overwhelm the Sky (2019), and Even Just (2020) in the San Francisco Bay Area, using independent filmmaking icon Rob Nilsson's regular cast and crew. The critically lauded Overwhelm the Sky was given special coverage for having been released in the classic epic "roadshow" format, and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber. His partly autobiographical cinema-themed essay documentary It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023) garnered raves from the British Film Institute, veteran critic Gerald Peary (For the Love of Movies), and many others. Kremer has screened work at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Joseph Conrad Festival in Krakow, Poland, Maryland International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Brussels International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, Rivers Edge International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and many other international venues. His second book, currently in editing at Oxford University Press, is the first to cover filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Crossing Delancey). His first book, about the life and career of filmmaker Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys in Company C, The Entity), was published by University Press of Kentucky's Screen Classics Series in November 2015. His third book, now being researched, will be the first to cover the life and career of classic Hollywood director Irving Rapper (Now Voyager, The Corn is Green, The Brave One, Marjorie Morningstar). As a film scholar, he has provided DVD/Blu-Ray commentary tracks for sixteen companies. As a Trailers from Hell guru, he is listed alongside other gurus like Guillermo del Toro, Luca Guadagnino, Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Edgar Wright, John Landis, Roger Corman, John Sayles, and many others.