Oscilloscope (company)
 Current logo for Oscilloscope | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Motion picture |
| Founded | 2008 |
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| Services | Home video |
| Website | oscilloscope |
Oscilloscope Laboratories is an independent film company and distributor founded by Adam Yauch and former TH!NKFilm executive David Fenkel.[1] It also has a recording studio and film production facilities. Fenkel returned to the company on May 4, 2012, following Yauch's death.[2] Shortly afterwards, Fenkel left the company in order to co-found A24 alongside Daniel Katz and John Hodges.
Oscilloscope is currently headed by Dan Berger.[3] In 2009, the company signed a deal with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.[4]
Releases
| Film | Year | Country | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortbus | 2022 | U.S. | John Cameron Mitchell | re-release (2006) |
| Claydream | 2021 | U.S. | Marq Evans | |
| Poser | U.S. | Ori Segev, Noah Dixon | ||
| The Tale of King Crab | Italy | Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis | ||
| Anonymous Club | Australia | Danny Cohen | ||
| Clara Sola | Costa Rica | Nathalie Álvarez Mesén | ||
| Stanleyville | Canada | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos | ||
| So Late So Soon | U.S. | Daniel Hymanson | ||
| The Velvet Queen | France | Marie Amiguet | ||
| No Ordinary Man | Canada | Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | ||
| Les Nôtres | Canada | Jeanne Leblanc | ||
| Silo | U.S. | Marshall Burnette | ||
| Sophie Jones | U.S. | Jessie Barr | ||
| Truth to Power | U.S. | Garin Hovannisian | ||
| What Happened Was... | U.S. | Tom Noonan | re-release | |
| Billy the Kid | 2020 | U.S. | Jennifer Venditti | re-release (2007) |
| The Twentieth Century | Canada | Matthew Rankin | ||
| Martin Margiela: In His Own Words | Belgium, Germany | Reiner Holzemer | ||
| We Are Little Zombies | Japan | Makoto Nagahisa | ||
| All I Can Say | U.S. | Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould, Colleen Hennessy, Shannon Hoon | ||
| Clementine | U.S. | Lara Jean Gallagher | ||
| The Infiltrators | Canada | Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera | ||
| Run This Town[5] | Canada | Ricky Tollman | ||
| Saint Frances | U.S. | Alex Thompson | ||
| Cane River | U.S. | Horace B. Jenkins | re-release (1982) | |
| VHYES | U.S. | Jack Henry Robbins | ||
| Midnight Traveler | 2019 | U.S. | Hassan Fazili | |
| Ms. Purple | Justin Chon | |||
| Jay Myself | Stephen Wilkes | |||
| The Hours and Times | Christopher Munch | re-release (1991) | ||
| Relaxer | Joel Potrykus | |||
| Combat Obscura | Miles Lagoze | |||
| Wrestle | Lauren Belfer, Suzannah Herbert | |||
| Hal | 2018 | U.S. | Amy Scott | |
| John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection | Julien Faraut | |||
| Madeline's Madeline | Josephine Decker | |||
| Searching for Ingmar Bergman | France, Germany | Felix Moeller, Margarethe von Trotta | ||
| The King | U.S. | Eugene Jarecki | ||
| On Her Shoulders | Alexandria Bombach | |||
| Summer 1993 | Spain, U.S. | Carla Simón | ||
| Sollers Point | U.S. | Matthew Porterfield | ||
| November | Estonia, Poland, Netherlands | Rainer Sarnet | ||
| Song of Granite | 2017 | U.S. | Pat Collins | |
| Beauty and the Dogs | France, U.S. | Kaouther Ben Hania | ||
| May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers | U.S. | Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio | ||
| Bobbi Jene | Elvira Lind | |||
| Brimstone & Glory | Viktor Jakloveski | |||
| The Road Movie | Belarus, U.S. | Dmitrii Kalashnikov | ||
| Polina | France | Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj | ||
| Santoalla | Spain, U.S. | Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer | ||
| Kedi | U.S. | Ceyda Torun | ||
| Always Shine[6] | U.S. | Sophia Takal | ||
| Contemporary Color | U.S. | Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | ||
| The Love Witch[7] | 2016 | U.S. | Anna Biller | |
| Girl Asleep | U.S. | Rosemary Myers | ||
| Lost in Paris | U.S. | Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon | ||
| The Alchemist Cookbook | U.S. | Joel Potrykus | ||
| Notes on Blindness | U.K. | Peter Middleton, James Spinney | Short film | |
| One Week and a Day | Israel | Asaph Polonsky | ||
| Pickle (short film)[8] | U.S. | Amy Nicholson | ||
| The Fits | U.S. | Anna Rose Holmer | ||
| Ma Ma | Spain, France | Julio Medem | ||
| The Wait | Italy, France | Piero Messina | ||
| Embrace of the Serpent | 2015 | Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina | Ciro Guerra | |
| What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy | U.K. | David Evans | ||
| Above and Below | Switzerland, Germany | Nicholas Steiner | ||
| Body | U.S. | Dan Berk, Robert Olsen | ||
| The Second Mother | Brazil | Anna Muylaert | ||
| Félix & Meira | Canada | Maxime Giroux | ||
| El Elefante Desaparecido (The Vanished Elephant) | Peru, Colombia, Spain | Javier Fuentes-León | ||
| The Past is a Grotesque Animal | U.S. | Jason Miller | ||
| The Wonders | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | Alice Rohrwacher | ||
| Catch Me Daddy | U.K. | Daniel Wolfe | ||
| Mad as Hell | U.S. | Andrew Napier | ||
| The Kill Team | 2014 | Dan Krauss | ||
| Art and Craft | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman; co-directed by Mark Becker | |||
| Gabriel | Lou Howe | |||
| Low Down | Jeff Preiss | |||
| Soul of a Banquet | Wayne Wang | |||
| Buzzard | Joel Potrykus | |||
| Animals | Collin Schiffi | |||
| Pulp: A Film About Life, Death, and Supermarkets | U.K. | Florian Habicht | ||
| Big Significant Things | U.S. | Bryan Reisberg | ||
| Whitewash | Canada | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | ||
| 12 O'Clock Boys | U.S. | Lotfy Nathan | ||
| Teenage | Germany | Matt Wolf | ||
| Stand Clear of the Closing Doors | 2013 | U.S. | Sam Fleischner | |
| Coherence | U.K. | James Ward Byrkit | ||
| About Sunny | U.S. | Bryan Wizemann | ||
| Dying to do Letterman | Joke Fincioen, Biagio Messina | |||
| Welcome to Pine Hill | Keith Miller | |||
| Wasteland | U.K. | Rowan Athale | ||
| A Teacher | U.S. | Hannah Fidell | ||
| Breakup at a Wedding | Victor Quinaz | |||
| Off Label | Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher | |||
| Our Day Will Come | France | Romain Gavras | ||
| Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns | U.S. | Joe Callander | Short film | |
| It's a Disaster | Todd Berger[3] | |||
| These Birds Walk | Pakistan, U.S. | Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq | ||
| Mother of George | Nigeria | Andrew Dosunmu | ||
| After Tiller | U.S. | Martha Shane, Lana Wilson | ||
| The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best | Ryan O'Nan | |||
| Jingle Bell Rocks! | Canada | Mitchell Kezin | ||
| Bunohan: Return to Murder | Malaysia | Dain Said | ||
| Metro Manila | U.K. | Sean Ellis | ||
| The Rise | 2012 | U.S. | Rowan Athale | |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2012 | U.K. | Lynne Ramsay | |
| Happy Few | 2012 | France | Antony Cordier | Released as Four Lovers |
| Shut Up and Play the Hits | 2012 | U.S. | Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern | |
| Hello I Must Be Going | 2012 | U.S. | Todd Louiso | |
| The Apple Pushers[9] | 2012 | U.S. | Mary Mazzio | |
| Only the Young | 2012 | U.S. | Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims | |
| Tchoupitoulas | 2012 | U.S. | Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | |
| Reality | 2012 | Italy | Matteo Garrone | |
| Wuthering Heights | 2012 | U.K. | Andrea Arnold | |
| We Can't Go Home Again | 2012 | U.S. | Nicholas Ray | |
| Samsara | 2012 | U.S. | Ron Fricke | |
| Oma & Bella | 2012 | Germany | Alexa Karolinski | |
| 28 Hotel Rooms | 2012 | U.S. | Matt Ross | |
| Dark Days | 2011 | U.S. | Marc Singer | re-release (2000) |
| Don't Expect Too Much | 2011 | U.S. | Susan Ray | |
| Compassion in Emptiness | 2011 | U.S. | Dalai Lama | |
| If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front | 2011 | U.S. | Marshall Curry | |
| Bellflower | 2011 | U.S. | Evan Glodell | |
| Rebirth | 2011 | U.S. | Jim Whitaker | |
| The Other F Word | 2011 | U.S. | Andrea Blaugrund Nevins | |
| Monogamy | 2011 | U.S. | Dana Adam Shapiro | |
| The Unloved | 2011 | U.K. | Samantha Morton | |
| Meek's Cutoff | 2011 | U.S. | Kelly Reichardt | |
| Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour | 2011 | U.S. | Kerthy Fix | |
| Bananas!* | 2011 | Sweden | Fredrik Gertten | |
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love | 2010 | U.S. | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | |
| The Maid (La Nana) | Chile | Sebastián Silva | ||
| Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak | U.S. | Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze | Companion to Where the Wild Things Are | |
| The Exploding Girl | U.S. | Bradley Rust Gray | ||
| A Film Unfinished | Israel | Yael Hersonski | ||
| Howl | U.S. | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | ||
| William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | U.S. | Yony Leyser | ||
| I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | U.S. | Richard Shepard | ||
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | U.S. | Banksy | Home release only | |
| Kisses | Ireland | Lance Daly | ||
| Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | Finland | Jalmari Helander | ||
| The Paranoids | Argentina | Gabriel Medina | ||
| The Thorn in the Heart (L’Epine dans le Coeur) | France | Michel Gondry | ||
| Polytechnique | 2009 | Canada | Denis Villeneuve | |
| Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig) | Denmark | Henrik Ruben Genz | ||
| Treeless Mountain | Korea | So Yong Kim | ||
| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man | U.S. | Stephen Kijak | ||
| The Garden | U.S. | Scott Hamilton Kennedy | ||
| The Law (La Loi) | U.S. | Jules Dassin | re-release (1959) | |
| Burma VJ | Denmark | Anders Østergaard | ||
| Unmistaken Child | Israel | Nati Baratz | ||
| No Impact Man | U.S. | Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein | ||
| The Messenger | Oren Moverman | |||
| Beautiful Losers | Aaron Rose | |||
| Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell | 2008 | Matt Wolf | ||
| Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot | Adam Yauch | |||
| FLOW: For Love of Water | France | Irena Salina | ||
| Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father | U.S. | Kurt Kuenne | ||
| Wendy and Lucy | Kelly Reichardt | |||
| Frontrunners | Caroline Suh | |||
| Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie | Jay Delaney |
References
- ^ Martin, Michael (21 June 2008). "How Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Turned Into a Filmmaker". New York. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope scrapping planned executive changes". Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Todd Berger's Apocalyptic 'It's A Disaster' Goes to Laub and Berger's Oscilloscope". Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ Thielman, Sam (2009-06-30). "Oscilloscope, WB team up online". Variety. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (2020-01-23). "Oscilloscope Teams With Twitter For Innovative Release Of Ricky Tollman's 'Run This Town' Starring Ben Platt". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ^ The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Variety
- ^ IndieWire
- ^ "Oscilloscope shines up 'Apple Pushers'". Variety. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
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