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Bingham Bryant

Bingham Bryant

Acting

Biography

Bingham Bryant is a director, producer and film programmer based in New York City. His feature debut, For the Plasma (2014, co-directed with Kyle Molzan) screened at festivals including Entrevues Belfort, BAMcinémaFest, Maryland, IndieLisboa and Jeonju IFF, and was distributed in the US by Factory 25. In 2016 he produced Dear Renzo (dirs. Agostina Gálvez & Francisco Lezama), acquired by HBO for international distribution and an official selection at the Viennale, FICUNAM, BAFICI (where it took top prize in the Argentine short competition) and Palm Springs IFF. His short Foreign Powers (2019) world-premiered at the New York Film Festival and also screened at Maryland, Palm Springs, Nashville and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He was the head of programming at streaming platform Le Cinéma Club, a film publicist at Cinetic Media, and has performed in films by Ricky D’Ambrose, Dustin Guy Defa and Joanna Arnow. His recent writing includes ‘Seeing Eye to Eye: Colour Correction Styles Across Today’s Film Restorations’ for Filmmaker magazine. Bryant is currently in post-production on an experimental short about art critic and collector Adrian Dannatt, and in development on his second fiction feature and a short adaptation of Edogawa Rampo’s ‘The Traveler with the Pasted-Rag Picture’.

Known For

For the Plasma
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For the Plasma begins in a remote house on the coast of Maine, where a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers she can reconfigure her perception to predict shifts in global financial markets. But when her inquisitive and demanding friend Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged and unsettled by her new colleague, and the two girls’ relationship begins to unravel. From this cryptic premise grows a lo-fi mind-bender of intimate scale and startling relevance that flirts with sci-fi and horror conventions, even as it subverts them. To the strains of an electronic score, For the Plasma juxtaposes pastoral imagery with surveillance technology, every shade and shadow captured in gorgeous 16mm.

For the Plasma

2014Movie