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Rodney Ascher is a still-alive American filmmaker exploring the spaces between documentary, genre, essay, archival and narrative films. His work has screened at the Sundance, Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, SXSW, TIFF, NYFF, HotDocs, BFI/LFF, Stanley/Overlook, Fantastic Fest, Sitges, Vienalle, Ghent, Jerusalem, and Gimme Some Truth Film Festivals as well as in a funeral home in Baltimore.


Notable projects include his first feature, ROOM 237 - an obsessive look at the Shining through the eyes of five very different people, THE NIGHTMARE which was called "The Scariest Movie of the decade” by Birth.Movies.Death (though that might be overstating it) and A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX.


Having grown up in Boston and Florida he now lives in the northeasternest edge of Los Angeles with his talented wife, two pets who hate each other, and a 14 year old who is in the other room right now playing a video game centered around power-washing.


His new film, GHOST BOY, is another hybrid-style documentary whose approach was inspired by Swimming to Cambodia and Dogville. It tells the remarkable story of Martin Pistorius and his journey from isolation back to the world of other people.