Full Description
RAW IMAGES FROM THE OPTIC CROSS is Karl Nussbaum's hallucinogenic journey through Eastern Europe and into his father's pain. It is a colorful evocation of the unspoken past and of the fears and ghosts experienced by the child of a survivor. 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Karl Nussbaum has been making films for over 18 years. His films have been screened in numerous European and American film festivals and museums. In 1997 he received a grant from the Puffin Foundation for Raw Images From the Optic Cross. In 1995 he won a jury prize at the Hamburg International Kurz Film Festival for Psycho-Biology, and was chosen to be a judge for the festival the following year.
He's also won two prizes at the Long Island Film Festival. Nussbaum is a founding member (along with Scott Saunders and Matthew Harrison) of FILM CRASH, a N.Y. based film collective which has presented screenings of over 100 filmmakers in New York, Los Angeles and Europe in the late 80's. He has made over 25 short films and videos. He is currently at work on his feature film, The Optic Cross.
