Movies: Josh Safdie

Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth packed score for Uncut Gems. In this exclusive documentary, Lopatin highlights the soundtrack's extensive use of Moog One an...

A horror film inspired by cults and Los Angeles in the late 1970s....

The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies....

A woman's car breaks down at a house in the woods. She looks out the window to see a variety of bizarre activities....

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John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone....

Josh & Benny Safdie, Alex Kalman, and Factory 25 present this feature-length program of found moments from the everyday—films that showcase the wonder, beauty, sadness, love, aggression and magic that goes unnoticed on the hectic streets of NYC and e...

Hustle, hustle, hustle... hard. These two got a cold hustle going on in downtown Seattle. Commissioned and produced by the Northwest Film Forum for their One-Shot program....

Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art. His Ralph Handel is a humorless white-collar worker who unaccountably spends his nights working the open mic circuit. Safdie bravely committed himself...

This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker....

Short film written and directed by John Paul Lopez...

Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk s...

Jacques Cousteau's investigation on fighting sea elephants and the losers who roam an island....

A lawyer and his secretary deal with their multiple clients....

A short film by Josh Safdie....