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Rodney Ascher
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Rodney Ascher is a filmmaker whose feature debut, the ‘subjective documentary' ROOM 237 (IFC) looked at Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining through the eyes of five very different peopl…
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Rodney Ascher is a filmmaker whose feature debut, the ‘subjective documentary' ROOM 237 (IFC) looked at Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining through the eyes of five very different people, each obsessed with solving its countless mysteries. The film premiered at Sundance in 2012 before screening at festivals around the world including Cannes, London, the Vienalle, Sitges, Toronto, and New York. His follow-up, the ‘horror-documentary’ THE NIGHTMARE (Gravitas Ventures) explored the phenomenon of ‘sleep paralysis’ and it likewise debuted at Sundance where it was called The Scariest Movie of the decade” and “One of the scariest documentaries ever’ before being released internationally in theaters and digitally. His other projects include a PRIMAL SCREEN for the Shudder Network, a GIF-centric music video for the experimental, Hugo-nominated hip-hop band CLIPPING, Andy Kaufman’s posthumous (?) comedy album, ANDY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER (Drag City) and the infamous S FROM HELL.
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2025
An Evening with Rodney Ascher
Movie Director
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2025
Ghost Boy
Movie Director
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2024
Delicate Arch
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Lynch/Oz
Movie Host (Chapter 2: 'Membranes') (voice)
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2021
A Glitch in the Matrix
Movie Screenplay
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2020
Doris Wishman Directs A Music Video
Movie Director
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2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
The El Duce Tapes
Movie Director
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2018
Haunted, Horrifying Sounds from Beyond the Grave
Movie Director
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2018
Sex Madness Revealed
Movie Peterson
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2017
Primal Screen
Movie Director
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2016
Blood Perspectives
Movie himself
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2015
The Nightmare
Movie Director
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2015
Director's Commentary: Terror Of Frankenstein
Movie Producer
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2014
ABCs of Death 2
Movie Director
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2014
Enter the Optigan
Movie Director
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2012
Room 237
Movie Editor
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2012
Swans: The Seer - Live
Movie Additional Camera
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2011
The Universal Language
Movie Graphic Designer
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2010
The S from Hell
Movie Editor
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2009
Dog Days
Movie Director
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2008
Visions of Terror
Movie Director
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2006
Hot Chicks
Movie Director
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2006
Somebody Goofed
Movie Director
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2001
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
Movie Director
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1998
The Wheel of Torment
Movie Director
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1997
Alfred
Movie Director
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Fourth Wall
Movie Executive Producer
