Michael Almereyda
Michael ALMEREYDA (1959, USA) dropped out after three years of studying art history at Harvard University to make films. Besides being a filmmaker, he is a screenwriter and producer. He has collaborated with directors, including Wim Wenders and Bruce Beresford. Almereyda’s films range across various genres, styles and formats. International Film Festival Rotterdam has screened many of his films. He regularly publishes essays in The New York Times, Film Comment and Artforum. His film Marjorie Prime (2016) and documentary Escapes (2016) were both shown at IFFR 2017.
Filmography
(selection) Nadja (1995), Hamlet (2000), William Eggleston in the Real World (2005), Paradise (2009), Experimenter (2014), Marjorie Prime (2017), Escapes (2017), Tesla (2020), John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
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Michael Almereyda op IFFR
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens | 89' | USA | World premiere
A kaleidoscopic all-archival exploration of the work of intrepid mid-century utopian neuroscientist, John C. Lilly. -
William Eggleston in the Real World
Michael Almereyda | 86' | USA | None
Almereyda, who has directed Nadia and Hamlet, made her beautiful portrait of the legendary ‘father of modern colour photography’, William Eggleston – -
Hamlet
Michael Almereyda | 123' | USA | -
This version of the Shakespeare drama is set in today’s New York, where the masters of the universe rule from the Elsinore Hotel. The Danish… -
This So-Called Disaster
Michael Almereyda | 89' | USA | World premiere
Intimate and lively record of stage rehearsals for ‘The Late Henry Moss’ by Sam Shepard is also a personal portrait of this writer/actor. Also with… -
Happy Here and Now
Michael Almereyda | 90' | USA | European premiere
Nothing is what it seems in this Internet thriller (with chat sessions in Almereyda’s beloved Pixelvision) about identity and reality in hyper-modern -
Skinningrove
Michael Almereyda | 15' | USA | None
Photographer Chris Killip shows us unpublished photos and tells stories about his time in a remote English fishing village. -
Skinningrove
Michael Almereyda | 15' | USA | -
Photographer Chris Killip shows us unpublished photos and tells stories about his time in a remote English fishing village. -
A Brief History of Surrealism
Michael Almereyda | 9' | USA | International premiere
The atmosphere in New York in times of war, seen through the eyes of the long-dead surrealist Andre Breton. About the war language of Bush… -
Marjorie Prime
Michael Almereyda | 98' | USA | International premiere
What would we remember and what would we forget if we could choose? In a near future, 86-year-old Marjorie has conversations with a hologram that…
