Welcome to Paris is a short bilingual anxiety comedy in Post Production. When Evie’s foot modeling gig doesn’t go as planned, an unlikely friend comes to her rescue.
Director, Writer, Editor: Allegra Oxborough
Cast: Emmy Wheeler, Blandine Andrieu, Christèle Cervelle, Ayouba Ali, Audrey Daoudal, Mo Collins
Director of Photography: Brennan Vance
Locations and Production Assistance: Nicolas Marie
Script Consultant: Auriane Landon
Camera Utility: Titouan Deniaud
Sound: Mathias Arrignon
Producer: Rafaela Sanchez
Set Photography: Pierre Larrieu
I Already Went is a bleak comedic satire set in a not-so-distant future, where a desire for convenience is at an all-time high.
Director, Writer, Editor, Composer: Allegra Oxborough
Cast: Heather Martin, Laith Hoffarth, Lorelye Hoffarth, Ali Alowonle
Director of Photography: Danny Corey
1st AC: Mary Brown
Key Grip: Nathone Giordano
Gaffer: Kyle Messina
Producer: Rafaela Sanchez
Sound: Grant Cutler
Set Photography: Angeliea Stark
Colorist: Ryan Berger
In the midst of divorce and a dissertation, a sound recordist chases a mysterious sonic occurrence.
Film stills by Allegra Oxborough, featuring Grant Cutler.
(hybrid documentary-fiction-fantasy feature film currently in post production).
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The lives of a group of thirty-something artists weave together as they grapple with the idea of parenthood. Allegra Oxborough directs “A Blue Morning: Conversations Among Artists on Parenthood,” a slice-of-life documentary following two couples with kids, and a third contemplating a family. Captured with remarkable intimacy, the film is a quiet rumination on art, child-rearing, sacrifice, fear, and acceptance. Juggling a host of parental responsibilities, the couples reckon with their past, present, and future in their respective fields of artistic pursuit, music and dance. It’s no-frills but honest, a portrait that moves in ripples, gently growing in scope as it moves from couple to couple. We previously featured Oxborough’s 2018 docu-fiction drama, “Distance,” a similarly straightforward exploration of a long-distance relationship. - Kentucker Audley
Director, Writer, Editor, Composer: Allegra Oxborough
Cast: Leslie Barlow, Amy Hager, Jacob Mullis, Aaron Rice, Jesse Rice, Renee Starr
Director of Photography: Brennan Vance. Second Camera: Serena Violet Hodges
Producer: Grant Cutler
Set Photography: Crystal Liepa, Breon Jones
Sound: Adam Biel
Mix: Steven Bone
Additional Music: Grant Cutler, Amy Hager, Jacob Mullis, Dave Karr
Color: Ryan Berger
Poster and Titles: Matt Scharenbroich
Forms of Balance is a documentary film by Allegra Oxborough, following sculptor London Tsai as he untangles his inheritance after the passing of his father (groundbreaking cybernetic sculptor Wen-Ying Tsai). The film is told through never-before-seen archival material and present-day observational footage, painting a candid portrait of a uniquely American legacy in the realm of cybernetic art.
Wen-Ying Tsai was a groundbreaking sculptor, and one of the first Chinese-born artists to rise in New York’s modern art scene. When he died in 2013, Tsai left behind a career’s-worth of cybernetic art, including aging, delicate works in need of restoration. Forms of Balance follows his adult son, London Tsai, as London struggles to maintain his father’s archive, while paving his own path as a cybernetic sculptor. While Forms of Balance chronicles Wen-Ying Tsai’s profound contributions to the modern art world, the film also offers a more global contemplation on legacy (on what, and whom, we leave behind). The film uniquely contrasts the public achievements of a great technology artist with the private life of a father, through the gentle lens of his own son.
Forms of Balance is currently in post-production, and seeking funding in the form of donations via our fiscal sponsor, NYWIFT. Learn more and donate to the project at https://www.nywift.org/forms-of-balance/.
Solo / Sacrilege is a docu-fiction collage teasing new songs by artist Aaron Rice, made with archival film and footage taken over a 6-year collaboration. The film’s subject oscillates between dissension and consent in an unfolding array of multi-format visuals, evoking an intimate, obsessive replaying of memories.
An Official Selection of the 2021 See The Sound program at SoundTrack_Cologne, Solo / Sacrilege screened November 2021 in Cologne, Germany.
The Endless Sleepover explores the private worlds of artists, and listens in as they grapple with parenthood.
A trans-national collaboration, the anthology series features voices from 10 families and original music by Eric Mayson.
All 10 episodes are now available on theendlessseries.com. Please follow @theendlesssleepover on Instagram for news, screenings, and updates.
Music video for Tiny Deaths, "Us" stars a real, non-actor couple, and explores the erotic tension between holding-close and opening-up.
Director, Editor, Colorist, Producer: Allegra Oxborough
Cinematography: Maria Rusche
Starring: Ellie Bernal and Eddie Murray
Set in the world of Peter Hujar, music "Fear" for Eliot Krimsky stars a real, non-actor couple, and explores through stillness the incapacitating nature of familial decision-making.
Director, Editor, Colorist, Producer: Allegra Oxborough
Cinematography: Eric Teti
Starring: Eliot Krimsky and Lisa Benger
Lucy and David's 8 year relationship has survived a distance of 2700 miles, but the events of one night tests their decision to stay together.
“‘Distance’ maneuvers with a light but sure-handed touch, intoxicating in its ability to capture private conversations with dead-on accuracy. For a film about the interminable back-and-forth of our wants and needs, the film is impressively concise. What could easily have been a feature film packs its punch in 22 minutes and with that, Oxborough has made an impressive first narrative film.” - Kentucker Audley / NoBudge
“This feels so painfully real and relatable. Amazing performances and direction.” - Serafima Serafimova / Short of the Week
Directed by Allegra Oxborough
Writers: Allegra Oxborough and Daren Sprawls
Starring Renee Starr and Aaron Rice
D.P.s: Catalina Ausin, Diana Ecker, Maria Rusche and Corey Waters
Assistant Director, Composer, and Producer: Grant Cutler
Poster Art: Kaitlyn Stubbs (painting), Tomoyuki Aoki (layout)
In A New Vocabulary for Proximity Cosmophage Collective wrote five new words for the English language, sharing them across concurrent performances and strung together by symbolic dishes. Each performance served as an edible mnemonic - a means to consume, digest, and interpret the new words. This performance asked: if language shapes our perception of reality, can we create new realms of feeling with new words? Allegra Oxborough captured staged and live versions of the performances, then used sonic and visual artifacts to compose this video interpretation of the work.
Cosmophage Collective: Jemma Rose Brown, Q. Nguyen, and Jimmy Tran
Performances by: Jerome Ellis, Amanda Saviñón, Sophie Davidson, Dan Iwrey
Video Capture: Allegra Oxborough, Grant Cutler
Video Edit: Allegra Oxborough
"Clyde in Mulberry" is an observational film about a young man who has decided to move from his native Bronx neighborhood to rural Florida. A departure from corporate ethnographic films, “Clyde” avoids talking heads, strategic soundbites, and bulleted takeaways. Instead, the film recreates the intimacy and breathlessness of being in-field, and asks audiences to gather information with attention and stillness.
https://vimeo.com/376702857
Researcher, Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist, Sound Designer: Allegra Oxborough
Additional Cinematography: Grant Cutler
Additional Images: Clyde Edwards
