Josephine Decker
Birth : 1981-04-02, Dallas, Texas, USA
History
Josephine Decker is an American actress, filmmaker, and performance artist. As of 2020 she has directed four feature films: the experimental psychological thriller Butter on the Latch (2013), the experimental erotic thriller Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), the experimental drama Madeline's Madeline (2018), and the semi-biographical thriller Shirley (2020). She also co-directed the documentary Bi the Way (2008) with Brittany Blockman.
Producer
Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught between a new guy at school and her sister's devastated boyfriend. Through her vivid imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss.
Director
Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught between a new guy at school and her sister's devastated boyfriend. Through her vivid imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss.
Director
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way, she encounters allies, enemies, danger, and the beauty of nature, all while coming to grips with her past and her own identity.
Editor
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Writer
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Director
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Screenplay
Director
Screenplay
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
Director
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
Charlotte
The employees of a cult-like biotech start-up test their production on themselves.
Sarah
A lesbian couple experiences microaggressions at a workshop upstate. Claire and her fiancée Monica embark from the boisterous streets of New York City to the Berkshires, where Claire has been invited to stage her latest work at a rural theater company. While Claire's actors question her ability to write heterosexual dialogue, Monica encounters her own source of micro-aggression in the form of Mutty, the groundskeeper.
Writer
A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?
Director
A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?
Josephine Decker
A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?
Producer
Two lives intersect in a dream. We have come to explore the wreck, the thing itself, and not the myth.
Editor
This short was filmed during the Experimental Film Virginia program. It was later expanded on and incorporated into the anthology feature "collective:unconscious"
Director
This short was filmed during the Experimental Film Virginia program. It was later expanded on and incorporated into the anthology feature "collective:unconscious"
Editor
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
Writer
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
Director
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene discovers that Titty has an ongoing online relationship with the beautiful but reclusive Ginger, who is an animal activist. Gene convinces Titty to make a pilgrimage to meet Ginger where the two men form a close bond despite both of them being drawn to the enigmatic Ginger, who is in need of rescue.
Jo
Sensing evil, a haunted house tour guide seeks a medium's help only to be warned that she is facing a vengeful power beyond her control.
Hirer
A has-been New York rock-star teams up with a wannabe filmmaker to destroy hipster culture in New York... if they don't destroy each other first.
Alice
After receiving some bad news, a New York escapes to Southern Indiana to visit her old friend, a frustrated sex researcher. The two women embark on a local road trip through a place that has seen better days. Part road trip, part meditation, part improvised fiction, part documentary, Rosehill is a film about crisis and eternal change, the darkness and resilience of the human spirit.
Editor
Tensions rise among 3 siblings - Juliette, Lucien and Margot - during a road trip from Abu Dhabi to the empty quarter of the U.A. E. They have come from France to explore the world of their recently deceased father, a scientist who worked in the U.A.E. a few months each year. In the oasis town of Liwa, they discover the beautiful Noor, the father's assistant, who unveils a father they barely recognize and reveals her knowledge of seminal moments in each of their lives. This reassures and unsettles them, serving finally to bind them closer together.
Just The Three Of Us is a short fiction film about an interracial couple in their 70s looking to spice up their marriage.
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
Editor
The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.
Writer
The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.
Director
The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.
Holly
A grad student in theatre directs a group of undergrads in an adaptation of a 1980s young adult novel, altering them all in unexpected ways.
Producer
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
Editor
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
Writer
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
Director
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Editor
Special thanks to the East European Folklife Center
Screenplay
Special thanks to the East European Folklife Center
Director
Special thanks to the East European Folklife Center
Gwen
A dark and bloody parody about a Scooby-Doo-like team of paranormal investigators and their devoted dog..
Phoebe
RICHARD'S WEDDING is an ensemble comedy that explores how the most enduring friendships require a mixture of envy, love and ridiculous egomania disguised as self-contempt. Alex and Tuna are on their way to Richard and Phoebe's wedding, to be reunited with a group of old friends. As they make their trek from Brooklyn to Central Park, they're joined by an ever-increasing number of friends with their own set of misgivings, self-righteousness, and violently annoying iPhone Apps.
Self
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Sound Designer
A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.
Editor
A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.
Writer
A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.
Director
A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.
Writer
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.
Juliette
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.
Camera Operator
A 120-participant tableau vivant by Sarah Small.
Co-Editor
A 120-participant tableau vivant by Sarah Small.
Director of Photography
A 120-participant tableau vivant by Sarah Small.
Creative Producer
A 120-participant tableau vivant by Sarah Small.
Co-Director
A 120-participant tableau vivant by Sarah Small.
Autoerotic follows four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration. Through a unique blend of outrageous comedy and in-your-face sex, Autoerotic insightfully illuminates the private sexual lives of America’s urbanites.
Josephine
A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.
Editor
Kids Songs: "My Eyes, Your Eyes" by Monkey Monkey Music with Meredith LeVande
Director
Kids Songs: "My Eyes, Your Eyes" by Monkey Monkey Music with Meredith LeVande
Director of Photography
Anything can happen in an accordion store.
Editor
Anything can happen in an accordion store.
Director
Anything can happen in an accordion store.
Editor
The new video from Brooklyn, NY based bluegrass band - Astrograss.
Director
The new video from Brooklyn, NY based bluegrass band - Astrograss.
Editor
When Elena, a middle-aged waitress with love-lorn love handles, can't take dishing up another plate of tater tots, she leaves her diner life forever. Or so she thinks. But the silverware has another plan. As plate after spatula after utensil hop after her, a new fate unfolds - Will she escape forever, or will the utensils win her back?
Screenplay
When Elena, a middle-aged waitress with love-lorn love handles, can't take dishing up another plate of tater tots, she leaves her diner life forever. Or so she thinks. But the silverware has another plan. As plate after spatula after utensil hop after her, a new fate unfolds - Will she escape forever, or will the utensils win her back?
Director
When Elena, a middle-aged waitress with love-lorn love handles, can't take dishing up another plate of tater tots, she leaves her diner life forever. Or so she thinks. But the silverware has another plan. As plate after spatula after utensil hop after her, a new fate unfolds - Will she escape forever, or will the utensils win her back?
Director of Photography
This documentary explores the bisexual youth subculture in mid-00's America.
Editor
This documentary explores the bisexual youth subculture in mid-00's America.
Director
This documentary explores the bisexual youth subculture in mid-00's America.
Producer
When Kimberly Sparkle's secret nudist society is exposed by two conservative students, Princeton University's campus divides between those who support the nudist student group and those who will stop at nothing to destroy it. Now Kimberly must choose between her chance at being student body president and her passion for nudity.
Editor
When Kimberly Sparkle's secret nudist society is exposed by two conservative students, Princeton University's campus divides between those who support the nudist student group and those who will stop at nothing to destroy it. Now Kimberly must choose between her chance at being student body president and her passion for nudity.
Director
When Kimberly Sparkle's secret nudist society is exposed by two conservative students, Princeton University's campus divides between those who support the nudist student group and those who will stop at nothing to destroy it. Now Kimberly must choose between her chance at being student body president and her passion for nudity.
