Daniel Kremer
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.
Filmography
A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget
as Narrator
A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget
as Narrator
Now, Irving Rapper
as Narrator
Now, Irving Rapper
as Narrator
William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy
as Himself
William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy
as Himself
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Narrator
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Narrator
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
as Narrator
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
as Narrator
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
as Narrator
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
as Narrator
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
as Narrator
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
as Narrator
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
as Narrator
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
as Narrator
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
as Narrator
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
as Narrator
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
as Narrator
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
as Narrator
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
as Narrator
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
as Narrator
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
as Narrator
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
as Narrator
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
as Narrator
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
as Narrator
Xenolith Atlas
Xenolith Atlas
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
as Narrator
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
as Narrator
Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky
as Narrator
Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky
as Narrator
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
as Narrator
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
as Narrator
Arid Cut
as Judd
Arid Cut
as Judd
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes
as Don Marco
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes
as Don Marco
Ben Fries the Slaves
as Dan Kramer
Ben Fries the Slaves
as Dan Kramer
David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet
as Dan Kramer
David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet
as Dan Kramer
Danny and the Scatman
as Self
Danny and the Scatman
as Self
Even Just
as Mr. Slivovitz, the Image Inspector
Even Just
as Mr. Slivovitz, the Image Inspector