
Amanda Kramer
Directing
Biography
Amanda Kramer is a writer/director whose films have shown at festivals around the world. Her feature Ladyworld played at TIFF Next Wave, London BFI and Fantastic Fest, and plays in select theaters through Cleopatra Entertainment from August 2. She is a film radical and stands for the liberation of all artists.
Known For

A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
By Design

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
We're All Going to the World's Fair

After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
Please Baby Please

After a catastrophic event, eight girls find themselves stranded in a house without electricity. As they run out of food and water, their sanity begins to crumble, and soon they regress to their baser instincts.
Ladyworld
It's the Midwest,1973, and Holocaust survivor Lena works as a hosiery shopgirl in an attempt at an ordinary American life, but her past trauma drives her to hysteria in this absurd, hallucinatory nightmare.
Traum

Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.
Give Me Pity!

100% Silk is an independent record label and taste-maker in the expanding and evolving world of electronic dance music. In June of 2012, four core acts from the label, LA Vampires, Ital, Magic Touch and Maria Minerva, embarked a lengthy group tour through the UK, Europe, and beyond. SILK is an expressionistic documentary that chronicles the performances, cultural environments, and global scenes through which the trip traveled. The motivating philosophies and emotions of the artists involved are visually articulated with seven fully staged dance sequences conceived and choreographed by Mecca Vazie Andrews and the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company. SILK is a music documentary, live concert experience, essayistic travelogue and above all, dance film.
Silk

Two siblings share an unhealthy life full of games and codes; however, their peaceful life is interrupted when a doppelgänger appears out of nowhere.
Paris Window

A cinephile collage, both historical and philosophical, of films on artificial intelligence, cyberspace and virtual reality, from 1981 to 2001: cinema as a way and an instrument to cope with humanity's euphoria, anxiety, fear and obsession with technology.
So Unreal

INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.
Intervene

This film accompanying concept album 'Imaginal Disk' takes you on the journey of True on the path to becoming the "purest you". What soon unfolds is a cinematic, hypnotically beautiful quest to rediscover the essence of being a human.
Imaginal Disk

The world of film and television is mad about dead young women: thrillers and crime dramas present a succession of attractive, partially clad female corpses. In this dance film, Amanda Kramer takes us into a cardboard factory that logs such corpses, complete with torn stockings and photogenic fake blood.
Sin Ultra

In a nightclub, reminiscent of a 1980s photo-novel, a band is playing requests. The texts play with pop clichés about life and true love. Until a dissatisfied customer can’t take it anymore and reveals the universal truth.
Requests

BARK is a portrait of a seemingly simple argument between two teenage girls that curdles into a surreal, psychological struggle.