Focus: Amanda Kramer
Programma IFFR 2022
After years helming her own underground dance label, Amanda Kramer has turned her vibrant vision to the seventh art with an aesthetic that is wild yet probing. Her films showcase bold performances, and grapple with the unknowability and instability of life and human psychology, pushing cinema to its limits.
Overzicht van films
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Bark
Amanda Kramer | 11' | USA | None
A strange conversation, between two teenage girls in a dreamy setting, culminates in a surreal nightmare. -
Give Me Pity!
Amanda Kramer | 80' | USA | World premiere
Sissy St. Claire gives the one-woman show of her life, but dark forces lurk backstage. Glittery VHS-style disco dream. -
Intervene
Amanda Kramer | 13' | USA | European premiere
A needy man is tormented by religious visions. The women in his life plan an intervention. -
Ladyworld
Amanda Kramer | 93' | USA | None
Eight teenage girls are trapped in a basement. Common sense makes way for extreme fears and emotions, in this delirious thriller. -
Paris Window
Amanda Kramer | 85' | USA | European premiere
Sunny gets into a relationship with a man who looks just like her brother… Kramer’s first feature is a hermetic chamber piece. -
Please Baby Please
Amanda Kramer | 95' | USA | World premiere
A respectable bohemian couple discover a sexual reawakening after encountering a bunch of savage gangsters. With a star cast. -
Requests
Amanda Kramer | 6' | USA | International premiere
The songs of life and love requested in the nightclub undermine the usual pop clichés – but is this what everyone wants? -
Sin Ultra
Amanda Kramer | 8' | USA | None
Practically naked corpses of young women: cinema’s expendable female dead. They’re logged in a cardboard factory, in Kramer’s short