Stefan Nadelman

Movies

Moonage Daydream
Animation
A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.
Sr.
Graphic Designer
A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.
Sr.
Animation
A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.
Liyana
Animation
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
Jane
Animation Director
Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.
Wave Form
Director
Psychedelic animated short capturing the spirit of surfing
Terminal Bar - Last Call
Animation
From 1973-1981, bartender Sheldon Nadelman shot over 1,500 black and white photographs of his customers at the Terminal Bar, located in midtown Manhattan. These are their stories as recollected by Sheldon 25 years after the bar closed its doors for good in 1982. Last Call examines a broad swath of the bar's clientele, some of them regulars, some of them one-offs and uncovers these never-before-heard stories of a bar community that would otherwise be forgotten.
Terminal Bar - Last Call
Director
From 1973-1981, bartender Sheldon Nadelman shot over 1,500 black and white photographs of his customers at the Terminal Bar, located in midtown Manhattan. These are their stories as recollected by Sheldon 25 years after the bar closed its doors for good in 1982. Last Call examines a broad swath of the bar's clientele, some of them regulars, some of them one-offs and uncovers these never-before-heard stories of a bar community that would otherwise be forgotten.
Wild Bichons
Hiker
A hiker gets distracted from lunch by the sight of a cute little dog...
Wild Bichons
Writer
A hiker gets distracted from lunch by the sight of a cute little dog...
Wild Bichons
Director
A hiker gets distracted from lunch by the sight of a cute little dog...
Terminal Bar - The Garbage Can
Writer
Fourth short film in Stefan Nadelman's look at the time his father spent at The Terminal Bar in NYC. This time Nadelman shows the pictures he took of the garbage can directly outside which serves as yet another portal into the streets at that time.
Terminal Bar - The Garbage Can
Director
Fourth short film in Stefan Nadelman's look at the time his father spent at The Terminal Bar in NYC. This time Nadelman shows the pictures he took of the garbage can directly outside which serves as yet another portal into the streets at that time.
Terminal Bar - Porters, Bouncers and Bartenders
Writer
Third installment in Stefan Nadelman's ongoing short doc series about his father and the infamous Terminal bar in NYC.
Terminal Bar - Porters, Bouncers and Bartenders
Director
Third installment in Stefan Nadelman's ongoing short doc series about his father and the infamous Terminal bar in NYC.
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Animation Director
Tiffany Shlain's documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a combination of animation and archival footage, Shlain constructs a chronological tour of Western modernization through the work of her late father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon and best-selling author. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy of human endeavor while championing the importance of personal connectedness for understanding and coping with today's global conditions.
Terminal Bar - Pimps and Prostitutes
Writer
A look at the gritty world of New York through the eyes of Sheldon Nadelman, bartender at the old Terminal Bar. A follow up to the prize winning short from 2002.
Terminal Bar - Pimps and Prostitutes
Director
A look at the gritty world of New York through the eyes of Sheldon Nadelman, bartender at the old Terminal Bar. A follow up to the prize winning short from 2002.
Food Fight
Writer
A history of war done tastefully.
Food Fight
Director
A history of war done tastefully.
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director
CINEMA16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award-winning shorts on DVD. With over three hours of films CINEMA16: AMERICAN SHORT FILMS is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the moving image. Films include Gus Van Sant's 1982 adaptation of a William S. Burroughs short story, The Discipline Of DE, Tim Burton's early stop motion animated classic Vincent, George Lucas' USC short Freiheit, Alexander Payne's previously unreleased UCLA graduation short Carmen, Paperboys by Mike Mills, D.A. Pennebaker's Duke Ellington scored Daybreak Express, Todd Solondz's NYU short Feelings, along with Oscar Winner The Lunch Date by Adam Davidson, Stefan Nadelman's multi- award winning documentary Terminal Bar, Joe Nussbaum's cult classic George Lucas In Love and 2006 Sundance Winner The Wraith Of Cobble Hill by Adam Parrish King. Films are subtitled in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese, and include commentaries from many of the directors involved.
One Step Ahead
Animation
An office worker tries frantically to outpace his co-workers in this lighting fast dash across the big city. Commissioned for Art of Speed at Nikelab.
One Step Ahead
Writer
An office worker tries frantically to outpace his co-workers in this lighting fast dash across the big city. Commissioned for Art of Speed at Nikelab.
One Step Ahead
Director
An office worker tries frantically to outpace his co-workers in this lighting fast dash across the big city. Commissioned for Art of Speed at Nikelab.
Sink
Director
In Sink (get it?), each video clip is accompanied by the audio clip from the video that preceded it.
Tourist Pictures
Director
Short documentary of Stefan Nadelman's road trip across America, focusing on other tourists and their compulsions and desires to photograph. The film won the Perrier Across America short film contest and earned a spot in the national ResFest touring digital film festival.
Terminal Bar
Director
A fascinating pictorial history of a New York City bar whose customers, from the hard-drinking working class Irish to the coiffed African American gay male, continually transform its focus during its 10-year reign.
Latin Alive
Director
Musical animated short film that plays on root language. Short animation premiered at ResFest 2000.