Aaron Schimberg
Directing
Biography
Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2019 film Chained for Life and the 2024 film A Different Man. Schimberg's debut feature, Go Down Death, was the closing film of the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival. His next film, Chained for Life, premiered at the 2018 BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber the following year. A Different Man, Schimberg's third feature starring Sebastian Stan and distributed by A24, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. He was named one of the top ten new directors to watch by Variety at that year's Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Known For
After an embarrassing incident at work, suburban family man William Ronald Trosper finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.
The Chair Company
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
A Different Man
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
Resurrection
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life
A cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by folklorist Jonathan Mallory Sinus.
Go Down Death
JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET is a portrait of a century-old Italian-American restaurant in New York City, one of the last of its kind in a rapidly changing East Village. This observational documentary loosely follows the rhythm of the restaurant’s day, which swings between boredom and frenzy as the old rooms empty and fill. No one who works at John’s is actually Italian, but some have been here for 40 years, including two pairs of brothers and a father and son. JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET catalogues the overlooked details of working life and a vanishing facet of New York City.
John's of 12th Street
Man is destroyed by nature, saved by nature. His nature, her nature, birds, trees, lakes.