Country: USA
Year: 2015
Duration: 80'
Sleep paralysis is an ailment which occurs shortly before you fall asleep, or more often just before you wake up, and creates a feeling of involuntary physical stiffening. This unpleasant experience can happen to anyone and it often borders on terror since your brain is awake and can register what is happening. Eight people discuss the problem, sharing the most irrational aspects of a little-understood scientific phenomenon. Because in the darkness of your room, anything can happen.
Biography
film director
Rodney Ascher
Rodney Ascher lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a movie and TV director. He debuted in 1997 with the short Alfred, which was followed by others, including Triumph of Victory (2001), an episode of the collective film Hot Chicks (2006), Visions of Terror (2008) and the documentaries S from Hell (2010) and especially Room 237 (2012). This latter film, in which he investigates presumed hidden meanings in Shining by Kubrik, participated at the Sundance Film Festival and the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes.
FILMOGRAFIA
Alfred (cm, 1997), Triumph of Victory (cm, 2001), Hot Chicks (ep. Somebody Goofed, coregia/codirectors aa. vv., 2006), Shirts & Skins (cm, 2008), Visions of Terror (cm, 2008), Dog Days (cm, 2009), The Lonely Death of the Giggler (cm, 2010), S from Hell (cm, doc., 2010), Room 237 (Overlook Hotel - Stanza 237, doc., 2012), The ABCs of Death 2 (ep. Q Is for Questionnaire, 2014), The Nightmare (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“I wanted to create more images myself. I wanted to go into the studio and shoot live-action myself and see if I could learn anything from what I saw in The Shining during the shooting of Room 237. But this is a very low-budget movie that was shot in about two weeks, it was’t as if we were able to emulate the shooting schedule of The Shining. But that was a challenge that I wanted to do myself this go-around, as much as I love working with archival footage...”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Rodney Ascher
fotografia/cinematography
Bridger Nelson
montaggio/film editing
Saul Herckis
scenografia/production design
Evan Murphy, Ben Spiegelman
suono/sound
Jason Tuttle
interpreti/cast
Siegfried Peters, Stephen Michael Joseph, Yatoya Toy, Nicole Bosworth, Elise Robson, Age Wilson
produttori/producers
Ross M. Dinerstein, Glen Zipper
produzione/production
Zipper Bros Films, Campfire
coproduttore/coproducer
Tim Kirk
distribuzione/distribution
Feltrinelli
contatti/contacts
Feltrinelli
Anastasia Plazzotta
anastasia.plazzotta@feltrinelli.it
www.feltrinelli.it
Rodney Ascher
fotografia/cinematography
Bridger Nelson
montaggio/film editing
Saul Herckis
scenografia/production design
Evan Murphy, Ben Spiegelman
suono/sound
Jason Tuttle
interpreti/cast
Siegfried Peters, Stephen Michael Joseph, Yatoya Toy, Nicole Bosworth, Elise Robson, Age Wilson
produttori/producers
Ross M. Dinerstein, Glen Zipper
produzione/production
Zipper Bros Films, Campfire
coproduttore/coproducer
Tim Kirk
distribuzione/distribution
Feltrinelli
contatti/contacts
Feltrinelli
Anastasia Plazzotta
anastasia.plazzotta@feltrinelli.it
www.feltrinelli.it
