Dieorama

Abigail Goldman spends her work days as an investigator for a public defender’s office in Washington state, helping people who are seriously in trouble—which can mean hours of staring at grisly pictures of crime scenes, visiting morgues, even observing autopsies. By night, she dreams up gruesome events, which she then turns into tiny, precise dioramas. In this new documentary short, we follow along as Goldman brings her miniature worlds of murder and mayhem to life with tweezers, paint, and resin, and meet the people who just can’t get enough of her twisted visions—where the final touch is always, in the artist’s words, “two or three brushstrokes of red paint.”

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Credits

Director:

Kevin Staake

Executive Producer:

Ryan Staake

Producer:

Ryen Bartlett

Cinematographer:

Kristian Zuniga, Bob Blankemeier

Editor:

Joe Siegel

Sound Designer:

Neil Koperek

Music:

Davis Jones

Additional Credits:

Production Coordinator: Nicole Bartlett, Production Assistant: Ronnie Hamilton, Production Assistants (NY): Akil Jones, Ameer Kazmi, Drone Operator: Jordan Myers, 1st Assistant Camera: Daniel Guadalupe, 1st Assistant Camera: Donavon de Cesare, Gaffer: Christopher Gould, Location Sound (NY): Gabe Quiroga, Colorist: David Torcivia, Business & Legal Affairs: Eric Marguiles

Contact

Distributor:

Jeff Seelbach
jeff.seelbach@topic.com

Public Film Contact:

Kevin Staake
Pomp&Clout
kstaake@gmail.com
17742099851

Publicity Contact:

Kevin Staake
kstaake@gmail.com
17742099851

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2019
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Runtime:
10 mins