Directing
Daniel Kremer
EN cinema · 49 credits
Born
23 July 1984 (age 42)
Birthplace
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as The Rabbi
Filmmaker, film historian, biographer, and professional film archivist Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University's film program and now lives in San Francisco. In 2007, while living in Philadelphia, he directed his first feature Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007). His second feature A Trip to Swadades (2008), which was shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, won three Best Feature Film awards. Following that film's international festival tour (which included Rotterdam), he moved to New York City, where he lived for nearly seven years. At one point, he studied to be an Orthodox rabbi, but gave it up to continue pursuing film. In 2011, he completed his acclaimed follow-up feature, The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011). The film was lensed predominantly in India. Subsequent to that, he directed Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015), Ezer Kenegdo (2017), Overwhelm the Sky (2019), and Even Just (2020) in the San Francisco Bay Area, using independent filmmaking icon Rob Nilsson's regular cast and crew. The critically lauded Overwhelm the Sky was given special coverage for having been released in the classic epic "roadshow" format, and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber. His partly autobiographical cinema-themed essay documentary It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023) garnered raves from the British Film Institute, veteran critic Gerald Peary (For the Love of Movies), and many others. Kremer has screened work at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Joseph Conrad Festival in Krakow, Poland, Maryland International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Brussels International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, Rivers Edge International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and many other international venues. His second book, currently in editing at Oxford University Press, is the first to cover filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Crossing Delancey). His first book, about the life and career of filmmaker Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys in Company C, The Entity), was published by University Press of Kentucky's Screen Classics Series in November 2015. His third book, now being researched, will be the first to cover the life and career of classic Hollywood director Irving Rapper (Now Voyager, The Corn is Green, The Brave One, Marjorie Morningstar). As a film scholar, he has provided DVD/Blu-Ray commentary tracks for sixteen companies. As a Trailers from Hell guru, he is listed alongside other gurus like Guillermo del Toro, Luca Guadagnino, Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Edgar Wright, John Landis, Roger Corman, John Sayles, and many others.
Known for
Filmography
Even Just
as Mr. Slivovitz, the Image Inspector, Director of Photography, Director, Producer
Terms and Conditions Apply: The Cinema of Robert Ellis Miller
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Never the Same Step Twice: The Later Films of Stanley Donen
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Countercurrents
Director, Writer
Now, Irving Rapper
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
as Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
as Narrator, Writer, Editor, Director
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
as Narrator, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
as Narrator, Editor, Director, Writer
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
as Narrator, Writer, Director, Editor
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
as Narrator, Editor, Writer, Director
Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film
as Narrator, Director, Writer
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
as Narrator, Editor, Writer, Director
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
as Narrator, Writer, Editor, Director
Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
as Narrator, Writer, Editor, Director
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
as Narrator, Writer, Director, Editor
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Faultline
Second Unit Director
Equinox Expressway
Director, Editor, Cinematography
Arid Cut
as Judd
Overwhelm the Sky
Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
Torch
Editor
Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
Assistant Director
Ezer Kenegdo
as Izzy Jonigkeyt, Writer, Editor, Director
Love Twice
Editor
Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
Director, Writer
A Simple Game of Catch
Director, Director of Photography
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes
as Don Marco
The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour
Director, Writer
A Collection of Chemicals
Screenplay, Director
A Trip to Swadades
Director, Writer
Jim and the Infidels
Director of Photography
Ben Fries the Slaves
as Dan Kramer, Director of Photography
Sophisticated Acquaintance
Director, Writer
Charles at the Threshold
Director, Writer