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Daniel McKleinfeld

DANIEL MCKLEINFELD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Daniel McKleinfeld began studying theater at the University of Alaska, where he worked with Tom Riccio, director of the Chicago Organic, and Russian artist Anatoly Antokhin. He decamped to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he studied experimental theater with Andrei Moguchi, of the Formalnii Teatr, and Vadim Mikhenko, of the movement-performance group Terra Mobile, and wrote and directed the live "happening" Petersburg Seance. He completed his degree at Colombia University, majoring in Russian Literature and Theater Direction, culminating in writing and directing the "documentary for the stage", A Little Piece of the Sun, which juxtaposes the story of the Chernobyl disaster with the life of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. He has also directed stage productions of plays by Richard Foreman, T.S. Eliot, and Shakespeare's King John, as well as adapting Matvei Yankelevich's poem-cycle Boris By The Sea. McKleinfeld has written, directed and edited a number of short films, including Carefully, an adaptation of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", and Thirteen Point Three Three, adapted from a poem by Brian Blanchfield. Upcoming projects include the feature film Andrei, adapted from a novel by Ivan Turgenev, a film adaptation of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", and Mine!, a documentary about the copyrighting of childhood. He currently works as an editor in Brooklyn, NY, reviews video games for Slant Magazine, and does live video mixing under the name VJ Fuzzy Bastard at http://www.vjfuzzybastard.com

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         Little Piece of the Sun, A

Little Piece of the Sun, A

Synopsis:
Daniel McKleinfeld takes the contemporary stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster and, using a collage of dozens and dozens of source texts, has created a theatrical documentary study of a broken society in which, merely to survive, one had to be a hustler, a liar, and a cheat, no matter how moral one may have been. A society in which a serial killer is allowed to roam free because it can't be admitted that a serial killer could possibly exist in the USSR, and where the management of nuclear power plants is chosen based on Party affiliation and loyalty rather than on skill and knowledge. A dreamlike, symphonic collision of texts, interviews, poetry, science, and history, A Little Piece of the Sun is a theatrical autopsy in which Art is the only scalpel sharp enough to cut through the mangled and burnt surface of lies and deception to reveal the glowing fragment of truth underneath it all. And, of course, it may be noted in passing that while this is a documentary about another country in another time, certain lessons as to the effects of governments that cover up their institutional failings with lies and corruption (leading to both direct and inadvertent murder) are universal and timeless
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Gemini CollisionWorks

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Play/Drama 180 min

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Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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