Whitney Horn
Whitney HORN (1982, USA) and Lev Kalman collaborate under their production company Special Affects Films. They are originally from New York, where they both studied at Columbia University and now live in San Diego and San Francisco, respectively. Together they created a series of video clips and experimental films, before their film Blondes in the Jungle (2009) and their feature film debut L for Leisure (2014) premiered at Rotterdam. In 2024 they once again join IFFR with Dream Team (2024).
Filmography
(all co-dir) Blood Stew (or the Country Club Killer) (2004, short), Christmas in Its Youth (2004, short), O, Nurse! (2004, short), Fun’s Over (2006, short), Dear Santa (2006, short), Jazz Christmas (2007, short), Blondes in the Jungle (2009, short), L for Leisure (2014), Two Plains & a Fancy (2019), Dream Team (2024)
Whitney Horn op IFFR
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Dream Team
Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn | 91' | USA | World premiere
Kalman and Horn’s dreamy murder mystery plays like Baywatch Nights as directed by Maya Deren. -
L for Leisure
Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn | 69' | France | World premiere
Comedy about students on holiday in the early 1990s. First feature by Kalman and Horn after IFFR hit Blondes in the Jungle (2010). Friends from… -
Blondes in the Jungle
Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn | 48' | USA | International premiere
Very funny spiritual adventure. On a hunt for the ‘fountain of youth’, three teenagers in 1980s Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encou