Michael Almereyda Movies

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in...

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous...

A young man drawn into the designs of his tech billionaire father in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to outwit death using cryonics...

Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer.

John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive...

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding...

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of making a movie.

Commissioned by Chuck Workman and excerpted in his What is Cinema (2014). Never screened in public.

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The...

Almereyda’s reading of Kenneth Koch’s “To the Unknown” transforms footage of the everyday into a moving tribute to one of the...

Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely...

Two young boys discuss their favorite movies and the nature of "passive resistance" while playing a video game.

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...

Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin...

André Breton, the great leader of the surrealist revolution, is still alive and he is in New York! Filmed with Almereyda's favourite...

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

Four short films were created in honor of artist residency program MacDowell's Centennial in 2007. Four artists, competitively selected from among...