“Man In The Morgue” by Omar Kakar
A disillusioned New York City embalmer discovers a renewed sense of life upon the uncovering of a mysterious memento mori on his mortuary table.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
“I’m a director of cross-cultural identity; my work naturally reflects a collision of eastern and western worldviews. I’m fascinated by this clash and the possible poetry that may emerge from the cross-pollination.
My film participates in this kind of mystic mixture, manifesting into a macabre & voyeuristic character study, following an unreliable protagonist attempting to reconcile the paradox of reality and its tension between one's internal subjective experiences against the outside objective world. Ideally, Man in the Morgue becomes a brief cinematic meditation on life & death, love, and existence.”
-Omar Kakar
CREDITS
Cast // Brandon deSpain, Abbey Dubin, C.J. Gelfand, & Kelly Fairbrother @jellyfair
Writer + Director // Omar Kakar @oms.kakar
Co-Writer // David Mar Stefansson @dodgydave2017
Producer // Arlene Fernandez & Jennifer Kaiser @jennn_kai
Executive Producer // Rhea Prasad
Unit Production Manager //Jennifer Kaiser
1st Assistant Director // Fernanda Curi @___curi
2nd Assistant Director // Lucia Alenar Iglesias @lucia__ai
Director of Photography // Andrea Gavazzi @andgavazzi
1st Assistant Camera // Alexey Kosorukov @kosorukovdp
2nd Assistant Camera // Riddhi Talreja @ridztalreja & Lucy Malhoney
Gaffer // Clemence Therin
Key Grip // Vic Roxas @vicente_roxas
Grip & Electric // Kenny Green @kgreen_21, Andrew Bell, Austin Hsieh, Amir Royale
Sound // Bane Fakih @banefakih, Sam Harwood, & Yue Jiang
Best Boy // Waley Yang
Production Assistant // Megan A Harper
Make-up Artist // Jared Balong
Casting Director // Stephanie Falkeis
Location Manager // Anna Bergstresser
Post Production Manager // Barbara Twist
DIT // Mikki Crisostomo @meekkee
VFX // Omar Kakar & Robert Bellon @robbellon
Colorist // Eric Schwalbe & Stephanie Norris
Editor // Omar Kakar
Poster Designer // Maggie Briggs @magsbriggs
Photographer // Emil Benjamin @emilwasbenjamin
Background // Peter Carllini & David Whitman
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