Directed by Dustin Guy Defa
10 Episodes
Though his filmography to date consists of only three features and a dozen or so acclaimed, eclectic short films, Dustin Guy Defa has carved out a unique niche as one of American independent cinema’s most intriguing and defiantly unorthodox auteurs. Interested, above all, in people and their relationships, his by turns wryly humorous and melancholic films are populated by unforgettable characters and feel something like a throwback to the smart, literate, observant human dramas of the 1970s. Defa’s unique touch is on perfect display in his award-winning short PERSON TO PERSON, which shares a title with his wonderfully low-key, shaggy-dog 2017 feature.
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12:44Episode 1Dustin Guy Defa Interview
Episode 1
This interview with director Dustin Guy Defa was recorded in 2023.
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Bad Fever
Episode 2
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2011 • United States
Starring Kentucker Audley, Eléonore Hendricks, Allison BaarAlternately quiet and delirious, always desperate, BAD FEVER is a witness to one man’s broken American dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pre...
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1:24:24Episode 3Person to Person
Episode 3
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2017 • United States
Starring Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi GevinsonIn PERSON TO PERSON, a record collector (Bene Coopersmith) hustles for a big score while his heartbroken roommate (George Sample III) tries to erase a terrible mistake, a teenager (Tavi Gevinso...
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09:28Episode 4Family Nightmare
Episode 4
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2011 • United States
Reconstructing a series of unearthed home movies, Dustin Guy Defa dubs his own voice over the voices of his family members to create an unsettling personal portrait of family dysfunction, revealing the devastating legacy of addiction, abuse, and...
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07:01Episode 5Declaration of War
Episode 5
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2013 • United States
This found-footage compilation exposes the disturbing enthusiasm with which George W. Bush’s declaration of a “war on terror” was met.
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18:20Episode 6Person to Person
Episode 6
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2014 • United States
Starring Bene Coopersmith, Deragh Campbell, Zachary LevyIn this acclaimed short—a precursor to director Dustin Guy Defa’s feature of the same name—a Brooklyn record-store clerk discovers a stranger passed out on the floor of his apartment . . ....
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10:55Episode 7God Is an Artist
Episode 7
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2015 • United States
In this idiosyncratic documentary, director Dustin Guy Defa travels to Detroit to contemplate the significance and (il)legality of street art—and finds himself tempted to join a Satanic cult along the way.
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06:21Episode 9Dramatic Relationships
Episode 9
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2016 • United States
Starring Bingham Bryant, Lindsay Burdge, Hannah GrossDustin Guy Defa slyly deconstructs the male gaze in a series of scenes that humorously and pointedly reveal the relationship between a male director and his female actors.
