Biography
Rodney Ascher is a filmmaker whose feature debut, the ‘subjective documentary' ROOM 237 (IFC) looked at Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining through the eyes of five very different people, each obsessed with solving its countless mysteries. The film premiered at Sundance in 2012 before screening at festivals around the world including Cannes, London, the Vienalle, Sitges, Toronto, and New York. His follow-up, the ‘horror-documentary’ THE NIGHTMARE (Gravitas Ventures) explored the phenomenon of ‘sleep ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ghost Boy
2025
Director, Editor, Writer
Martin Pistorius slipped into a coma at the age of 12. Three years later he woke up but was unable to communicate and no-one realized he was fully awa...
Delicate Arch
2024
Executive Producer
Four young friends with fracturing relationships take a camping trip to Southern Utah in order to escape an ecological disaster up North. Alone in th...
Lynch/Oz
2023
as Host (Chapter 2: 'Membranes') (voice)
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this T...
A Glitch in the Matrix
2021
Editor, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for through archival footage, compelling ...
Doris Wishman Directs A Music Video
2020
Director
When buying a marital aid at an adult emporium, Tom Smith unexpectedly discovers legendary exploitation filmmaker Doris Wishman working behind the cou...
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
Story Editor, Executive Producer, Co-Producer
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most acc...
The El Duce Tapes
2019
Director
A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogyn...
Haunted, Horrifying Sounds from Beyond the Grave
2018
Director
A musician’s money grab Halloween composition unleashes the haunting sound of his own mother’s death.
Sex Madness Revealed
2018
as Peterson
Jimmy Morris has a special surprise guest on his podcast, The Film Dick. It's Chester Holloway who reveals all the secrets behind the mysterious 1939 ...
Sex Madness Revealed
2018
Executive Producer
Jimmy Morris has a special surprise guest on his podcast, The Film Dick. It's Chester Holloway who reveals all the secrets behind the mysterious 1939 ...
Primal Screen
2017
Director
Primal Screen is a documentary about a person's childhood fear of ventriloquist dummies and dolls due to the uncanny valley.
Blood Perspectives
2016
as himself
Filmmakers Nicholas McCarthy and Rodney Ascher on Blood Feast.
The Nightmare
2015
Director, Editor
Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
Director's Commentary: Terror Of Frankenstein
2015
Editor, Producer
'Terror of Frankenstein' is an exercise in extreme meta-fictional tragicomedy. Presented as the commentary track of a rushed reissue of a forgotten (b...
ABCs of Death 2
2014
Director, Editor
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this tim...
Enter the Optigan
2014
Editor, Director
A segment from the abandoned documentary film "The Collectors." Shot in 1999 and edited in 2013–2014. The short documentary centers on Pea Hicks, a co...
Room 237
2012
Director, Editor, Writer
A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different point...
Swans: The Seer - Live DVD
2012
Additional Camera
SWANS recorded live 2010/2011. Track listing: No Words / No Thoughts (18:50) - Avatar (10:36) - The Apostate (19:31) - Beautiful Child (Fragment) (3:4...
The Universal Language
2011
Graphic Designer
The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the ...
The S from Hell
2010
Director, Editor
THE S FROM HELL is a short documentary-cum-horror film about the scariest corporate symbol in history - The 1964 Screen Gems logo, aka ‘The S From Hel...
Visions of Terror
2008
Director, Writer
A young woman meets the ultimate terror, a supernatural reality-bending maniac with a very large collection of out of print VHS tapes.
The Wheel of Torment
2006
Director
A perfect little nightmare, WHEEL OF TORMENT takes several dizzying turns around Hieronymus Bosch’s epic pageants of violence set to Buckethead's spas...
Somebody Goofed
2006
Director
Appropriated from one of fundamentalist comic book artist Jack Chick’s short “Chick tracts” designed to illustrate Christian doctrine, a young boy in ...
Hot Chicks
2006
Director
Hot Chicks is a unique omnibus collaboration that adapts several of the widely-read palm-sized religious comic book tracts that have been published by...
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001
Director
All of the album's songs were made into music videos by various filmmakers, such as the Quay Brothers, Garine Torossian, Grant Gee, and Guy Maddin.
Alfred
1997
Director
Alfred is a (very) short film about the mysteries of other people's inner lives, the isolation of the individual within a group, good stiff drinks and...
Fourth Wall
N/A
Executive Producer
Centers on a former child star (Roberts) from a popular ’90s television show who is kidnapped and wakes up in a complete recreation of the show’s set ...