Zachary Oberzan is an American filmmaker, theater director, actor, and
singer/songwriter often referred to as "a complete artist," for
combining a broad range of artistic and technical skills in his work.
Mixing high and low brow culture and often autobiographical, his films
and performances have been presented in over seventy-five cities,
primarily in Europe. Writes Marilyn Stasio of Variety, “Watching
Oberzan (on screen and in person) express his thoughts and damned-up
feelings is funny as hell. And sadder than mere words can
express.†Oberzan was born and raised in the small town of Saco,
Maine in 1974. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1997 and moved
to New York City to pursue a career in the arts. Major depression has
both inspired and hindered his work.A founding member of the New York
City-based theater collective Nature Theater of Oklahoma, he
collaborated in the creation and performance of several plays: No Dice
(Obie Award), Poetics: a ballet brut, and the one-man show Rambo Solo,
in which Oberzan breathlessly conveyed the plot and the pathos of
David Morrell's 1972 emotionally sophisticated thriller First Blood,
presciently predicting that, some day, he would make his own
true-to-the-novel cinematic adaptation. In 2010, Oberzan's solo
theater/film piece Your brother. Remember? premiered at
Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. An examination of family
deterioration and redemption, the piece uses twenty-year-old home
movie footage, recreated shot-for-shot in the present day, and employs
the life of Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme as a means to
tell its bittersweet story. As of December 2016, Oberzan has performed
the piece in over fifty cities worldwide. Ben Walters, Guardian UK,
writes: “Oberzan's 'Your brother. Remember?' is a brilliant piece of
21st-century art, an elegant mash-up of pop culture and the intensely
personal, of live performance and the moving image, of memento mori
and joie de vivre, the death wish and the creative impulse. It's
funny, clever and profound.†In April 2012 Your brother. Remember?
was released as a stand-alone film to critical praise.
singer/songwriter often referred to as "a complete artist," for
combining a broad range of artistic and technical skills in his work.
Mixing high and low brow culture and often autobiographical, his films
and performances have been presented in over seventy-five cities,
primarily in Europe. Writes Marilyn Stasio of Variety, “Watching
Oberzan (on screen and in person) express his thoughts and damned-up
feelings is funny as hell. And sadder than mere words can
express.†Oberzan was born and raised in the small town of Saco,
Maine in 1974. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1997 and moved
to New York City to pursue a career in the arts. Major depression has
both inspired and hindered his work.A founding member of the New York
City-based theater collective Nature Theater of Oklahoma, he
collaborated in the creation and performance of several plays: No Dice
(Obie Award), Poetics: a ballet brut, and the one-man show Rambo Solo,
in which Oberzan breathlessly conveyed the plot and the pathos of
David Morrell's 1972 emotionally sophisticated thriller First Blood,
presciently predicting that, some day, he would make his own
true-to-the-novel cinematic adaptation. In 2010, Oberzan's solo
theater/film piece Your brother. Remember? premiered at
Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. An examination of family
deterioration and redemption, the piece uses twenty-year-old home
movie footage, recreated shot-for-shot in the present day, and employs
the life of Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme as a means to
tell its bittersweet story. As of December 2016, Oberzan has performed
the piece in over fifty cities worldwide. Ben Walters, Guardian UK,
writes: “Oberzan's 'Your brother. Remember?' is a brilliant piece of
21st-century art, an elegant mash-up of pop culture and the intensely
personal, of live performance and the moving image, of memento mori
and joie de vivre, the death wish and the creative impulse. It's
funny, clever and profound.†In April 2012 Your brother. Remember?
was released as a stand-alone film to critical praise.
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