Spencer McCall
Directing
Biography
Spencer McCall was born in San Francisco, California, USA. Spencer is an award-winning producer and writer, known for The Institute (2012), Dispatches from Elsewhere (2020) and In Bright Axiom (2019).
Known For
A group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life come to find that the mystery winds far deeper than they ever imagined.
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Under a code of ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, guests are invited into the House of the Latitude, a place where truth and fiction are indistinguishable.
In Bright Axiom
Thousands of participants in a San Francisco-based alternate reality game end up getting more than they bargained for. Told from the players’ perspectives, the film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where the real world and fictional narratives merge to create unforeseen and often unsettling consequences. Examining counter-culture, new religious movements and street art, this film takes the viewer on a journey into a secret underground world teeming just beneath the surface of everyday life.
The Institute
Nearing the end of his time on earth, a defrocked guru from the 60's lures the son he's never met into creating a film about his extraordinary and bizarre life.