Amanda Kramer
Still: So UnrealAmanda KRAMER is an American musician, author and filmmaker. Over the past five years she's made four films, her debut feature Ladyworld (2018) was selected for the Frontières Buyers Showcase at the Marché du Film at Cannes and then premiered at Fantastic Fest and London BFI Film Festival before its theatrical release. She also makes music videos, which have been featured on Vogue, LA Record, Flaunt Magazine and Complex. Both Please Baby Please (2022) and Give Me Pity! (2022) had their world premieres at IFFR 2022, as part of the Focus: Amanda Kramer programme. So Unreal (2023) is her first documentary and was selected for IFFR 2024.
Filmography
(selection) Bark (2016, short), Requests (2017, short), Intervene (2018, short), Paris Window (2018), Ladyworld (2018), Sin Ultra (2019, short), Please Baby Please (2022), Give Me Pity! (2022), So Unreal (2023)
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Bark
A strange conversation, between two teenage girls in a dreamy setting, culminates in a surreal nightmare.
11'
United States
IFFR 2022
Give Me Pity!
Sissy St. Claire gives the one-woman show of her life, but dark forces lurk backstage. Glittery VHS-style disco dream.
80'
United States
IFFR 2022
Intervene
A needy man is tormented by religious visions. The women in his life plan an intervention.
13'
United States
IFFR 2022
Ladyworld
Eight teenage girls are trapped in a basement. Common sense makes way for extreme fears and emotions, in this delirious thriller.
93'
United States
IFFR 2022
Paris Window
Sunny gets into a relationship with a man who looks just like her brother... Kramer’s first feature is a hermetic chamber piece.
85'
United States
IFFR 2022
Please Baby Please
A respectable bohemian couple discover a sexual reawakening after encountering a bunch of savage gangsters. With a star cast.
95'
United States
IFFR 2022
Requests
The songs of life and love requested in the nightclub undermine the usual pop clichés – but is this what everyone wants?
6'
United States
IFFR 2022
Sin Ultra
Practically naked corpses of young women: cinema’s expendable female dead. They’re logged in a cardboard factory, in Kramer’s short dance film.
8'
United States
IFFR 2022
So Unreal
Rock icon Debbie Harry narrates this sensorial essay-documentary about the interwoven relationships between cinema, humanity and technology.
101'
United States
IFFR 2024
Bark
11'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Give Me Pity!
80'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Intervene
13'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Ladyworld
93'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Paris Window
85'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Please Baby Please
95'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Requests
6'
United States
P&I Selection 2022
Sin Ultra
8'
United States
P&I Selection 2022