Chained for Life

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur’s English-language debut. Armed with a sardonic sense of humor, pure emotionality, a reflective self-sarcastic mood, and obsession with detail, this enigmatic mesmerising melodrama holds in different ways all of cinema – from Tod Browning’s Freaks and David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, to Robert Altman’s The Player and Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio – to give it a radically new substantial twist.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Aaron Schimberg

Script: Aaron Schimberg

Cinematography: Adam J. Minnick

Editing: Sofi Marshall

Sound: Chris Foster, Aaron Schimberg, Chris Foster, Gillian Arthur

Music: C. Spencer Yeh

Actors: Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson, Charlie Korsmo, Sari Lennick, Stephen Plunkett, Joanna Arnow, Cosmo Bjorkenheim, Will Blomker, Rayvin Disla, Daniel Gilchrist, Avi Glickstein, Miranda Gruss, Rebecca Gruss, Colin Healey, William Huntley,

Production: Grand Motel Films, The Eyeslicer, Flies Collective

Producers: Vanessa McDonnell, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Matthew Petock, Dan Schoenbrun, Zachary Shedd

Co-producers: Chris Foster, Isaac Kiener, Adam Pearson, Ryan Zacarias, Carlos Zozaya

Art Direction: Sia Balabanova (Production Design), Alina Uzlov (Art Director)

Costumes: Stacey Berman, Karen Boyer

Executive producer: Adam Regelmann, Nathan Slott, Jess Weixler

Camera: Calvin Snead

Make Up: Jessie Eden

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: USA

Production Year: 2018

Duration: 91΄

Contact: Vanessa McDonnell, mcdonnellvanessa@gmail.com

Aaron Schimberg

Aaron Schimberg director lives in New York, USA. His second feature film, Chained for Life, in which the actor Adam Pearson also plays a central character, was well received by critics. A Different Man is his third film.