Ricky D’Ambrose

An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

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An American art collector’s estate plans to build a glass house that will permanently memorialize the collector’s many prints and paintings. The spot selected—several acres of undeveloped parkland in upstate New York—was the site of a young woman’s murder, the circumstances of which have been exploited for political purposes by the founder of a far-right populist party called National Advance.

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An American director, hired by German television to make a film about 9/11, re-stages a controversial photograph taken along the Brooklyn waterfront soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

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A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

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An applauded New York intellectual hires a young archivist to whitewash her late psychologist father's reputation by eliminating a forbidding, potentially incriminating paper trail.

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This hypnotic work of contemporary cinematic modernism—something like Robert Bresson in Park Slope, but not exactly—concerns a young man apartment-sitting for friends as talk of a plane crash ominously lingers in the air.

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Interview with filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. Recorded February 2014.

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Interview with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry.

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Interview with filmmaker Nathan Silver. Recorded September 2013.

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Interview with filmmaker and critic Dan Sallitt. Recorded July 2013.

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In a city afflicted by a series of increasingly violent protests, a dying young man is visited in his apartment by a refugee, a political radical, and a priest.

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An anonymous young man appears unexpectedly in the Brooklyn apartment of a young couple, promising the two graduate students a more authentic, less insular lifestyle with him in Berlin.

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