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Release Date: 2005   Duration: 100 min

Cast: Lucas Branum, John Wiederholt, Richard Paro, David Becker, Cyra K. Polizzi, Eef Barzelay

Categories: Movies, Experimental film, Drama, Avant-garde

GRODMIN is the 2005 independent film written and directed by Jim Horwitz. It stars John Wiederholt, Lucas Branum, and actor, Richard Paro, as the on-screen presence of the film's real director, Jim Horwitz. Shot on-location at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Boston University, GRODMIN is a complex highbrid of "traditional" narrative film interspersed with fictional...  MORE

GRODMIN is the 2005 independent film written and directed by Jim Horwitz. It stars John Wiederholt, Lucas Branum, and actor, Richard Paro, as the on-screen presence of the film's real director, Jim Horwitz. Shot on-location at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Boston University, GRODMIN is a complex highbrid of "traditional" narrative film interspersed with fictional footage of its own behind-the-scenes documentary to create a wholly compelling, self-reflexive simulacrum of media manipulation and renegade filmmaking. As a film, GRODMIN is groundbreaking in its forthright simplicity of presentation, not relying on established narrative conventions. The uniqueness of this structure is that it creates a belief-system in the viewers which is shattered and reconstructed in the last minutes of the film. Drawing heavily on independent films like Tape (film), The Blair Witch Project, and Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal (film) that utilize hand-held camera work and a low-brow aesthetic to create an added sense of hyper-realism, Grodmin is only one of several independent films of recent years to so completely fool audience members into believing its LESS