Oscilloscope (company)
 Current logo for Oscilloscope | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Motion picture |
| Founded | 2008 |
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| Products | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Frances | 2019 | U.S. | Alex Thompson | |
| Midnight Traveler | 2019 | U.S. | Hassan Fazili | |
| Ms. Purple | 2019 | U.S. | Justin Chon | |
| Jay Myself | 2019 | U.S. | Stephen Wilkes | |
| The Hours and Times | 2019 | U.S. | Christopher Munch | re-release |
| Relaxer | 2019 | U.S. | Joel Potrykus | |
| Combat Obscura | 2019 | U.S. | Miles Lagoze | |
| Wrestle | 2019 | U.S. | Lauren Belfer and Suzannah Herbert | |
| Hal | 2018 | U.S. | Amy Scott | |
| John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection | 2018 | U.S. | Julien Faraut | |
| Madeline's Madeline | 2018 | U.S. | Josephine Decker | |
| Searching for Ingmar Bergman | 2018 | France, Germany | Felix Moeller and Margarethe von Trotta | |
| The King | 2018 | U.S. | Eugene Jarecki | |
| On Her Shoulders | 2018 | U.S. | Alexandria Bombach | |
| Summer 1993 | 2017 | Spain, U.S. | Carla Simón | |
| Sollers Point | 2018 | U.S. | Matthew Porterfield | |
| November | 2018 | Estonia, Poland, Netherlands | Rainer Sarnet | |
| Song of Granite | 2017 | U.S. | Pat Collins | |
| Beauty and the Dogs | 2017 | France, U.S. | Kaouther Ben Hania | |
| May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers | 2017 | U.S. | Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio | |
| Bobbi Jene | 2017 | U.S. | Elvira Lind | |
| Brimstone & Glory | 2017 | U.S. | Viktor Jakloveski | |
| The Road Movie | 2016 | Belarus, U.S. | Dmitrii Kalashnikov | |
| Polina | 2017 | France | Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj | |
| Santoalla | 2016 | Spain, U.S. | Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer | |
| Kedi | 2017 | U.S. | Ceyda Torun | |
| Always Shine[5] | 2016 | U.S. | Sophia Takal | |
| Contemporary Color | 2017 | U.S. | Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross | |
| The Love Witch[6] | 2016 | U.S. | Anna Biller | |
| Girl Asleep | 2016 | U.S. | Rosemary Myers | |
| Lost in Paris | 2016 | U.S. | Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon | |
| The Alchemist Cookbook | 2016 | U.S. | Joel Potrykus | |
| Notes on Blindness (short film) | 2016 | U.K. | Peter Middleton and James Spinney | |
| One Week and a Day | 2016 | Israel | Asaph Polonsky | |
| Pickle (short film)[7] | 2016 | U.S. | Amy Nicholson | |
| The Fits | 2016 | U.S. | Anna Rose Holmer | |
| Ma Ma | 2016 | Spain, France | Julio Medem | |
| The Wait | 2016 | Italy, France | Piero Messina | |
| Embrace of the Serpent | 2015 | Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina | Ciro Guerra | |
| What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy | 2015 | U.K. | David Evans | |
| Above and Below | 2015 | Switzerland, Germany | Nicholas Steiner | |
| Body | 2015 | U.S. | Dan Berk and Robert Olsen | |
| The Second Mother | 2015 | Brazil | Anna Muylaert | |
| Félix & Meira | 2014 | Canada | Maxime Giroux | |
| El Elefante Desaparecido (The Vanished Elephant) | 2014 | Peru, Colombia, Spain | Javier Fuentes-León | |
| The Past is a Grotesque Animal | 2014 | U.S. | Jason Miller | |
| The Wonders | 2014 | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | Alice Rohrwacher | |
| Catch Me Daddy | 2014 | U.K. | Daniel Wolfe | |
| Mad as Hell | 2015 | U.S. | Andrew Napier | |
| The Kill Team | 2014 | U.S. | Dan Krauss | |
| Art and Craft | 2014 | U.S. | Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman, co-directed by Mark Becker | |
| Gabriel | 2014 | U.S. | Lou Howe | |
| Low Down | 2014 | U.S. | Jeff Preiss | |
| Soul of a Banquet | 2014 | U.S. | Wayne Wang | |
| Buzzard | 2014 | U.S. | Joel Potrykus | |
| Animals | 2014 | U.S. | Collin Schiffi | |
| Pulp: A Film About Life, Death, and Supermarkets | 2014 | U.K. | Florian Habicht | |
| Big Significant Things | 2014 | U.S. | Bryan Reisberg | |
| Whitewash | 2014 | Canada | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | |
| 12 O'Clock Boys | 2014 | U.S. | Lotfy Nathan | |
| Teenage | 2014 | Germany | Matt Wolf | |
| Stand Clear of the Closing Doors | 2013 | U.S. | Sam Fleischner | |
| Coherence | 2013 | U.K. | James Ward Byrkit | |
| About Sunny | 2013 | U.S. | Bryan Wizemann | |
| Dying to do Letterman | 2011 | U.S. | Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina | |
| Welcome to Pine Hill | 2013 | U.S. | Keith Miller | |
| Wasteland | 2013 | UK | Rowan Athale | |
| A Teacher | 2013 | U.S. | Hannah Fidell | |
| Breakup At A Wedding | 2013 | U.S. | Victor Quinaz | |
| Off Label | 2013 | U.S. | Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher | |
| Our Day Will Come | 2013 | France | Romain Gavras | |
| Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns (short film) | 2013 | U.S. | Joe Callander | |
| It's A Disaster | 2013 | U.S. | Todd Berger[3] | |
| These Birds Walk | 2013 | Pakistan, U.S. | Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq | |
| Mother of George | 2013 | Nigeria | Andrew Dosunmu | |
| After Tiller | 2013 | U.S. | Martha Shane and Lana Wilson | |
| Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best | 2013 | U.S. | Ryan O'Nan | |
| Jingle Bell Rocks! | 2013 | Canada | Mitchell Kezin | |
| Bunohan: Return to Murder | 2013 | Malaysia | Dain Said | |
| Metro Manila | 2013 | U.K. | Sean Ellis | |
| The Rise | 2012 | U.S. | Rowan Athale | |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2012 | UK | Lynne Ramsay | |
| Happy Few (released as Four Lovers) | 2012 | France | Antony Cordier | |
| Shut Up and Play the Hits | 2012 | U.S. | Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern | |
| Hello I Must Be Going | 2012 | U.S. | Todd Louiso | |
| The Apple Pushers (U.S. 2012)[8] | 2011 | U.S. | Mary Mazzio | |
| Only The Young | 2012 | U.S. | Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims | |
| Tchoupitoulas | 2012 | U.S. | Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross | |
| Reality | 2012 | Italy | Matteo Garrone | |
| Wuthering Heights | 2012 | UK | 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 |
| 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 | UK | 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) | 2010 | Chile | Sebastián Silva | |
| Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak | 2010 | U.S. | Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze | |
| The Exploding Girl | 2010 | U.S. | Bradley Rust Gray | |
| A Film Unfinished | 2010 | Israel | Yael Hersonski | |
| Howl | 2010 | U.S. | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | |
| William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | 2010 | U.S. | Yony Leyser | |
| I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | 2010 | U.S. | Richard Shepard | |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2010 | U.S. | Banksy | DVD & Blu-ray release only |
| Kisses | 2010 | Ireland | Lance Daly | |
| Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | 2010 | Finland | Jalmari Helander | |
| The Paranoids | 2010 | Argentina | Gabriel Medina | |
| The Thorn in the Heart (L’Epine dans le Coeur) | 2010 | France | Michel Gondry | |
| Polytechnique | 2009 | Canada | Denis Villeneuve | |
| Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig) | 2010 | Denmark | Henrik Ruben Genz | |
| Treeless Mountain | 2009 | Korea | So Yong Kim | |
| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man | 2009 | U.S. | Stephen Kijak | |
| The Garden | 2009 | U.S. | Scott Hamilton Kennedy | |
| The Law (La Loi) | 2010 | U.S. | Jules Dassin | re-release |
| Burma VJ | 2009 | Denmark | Anders Østergaard | |
| Unmistaken Child | 2009 | Israel | Nati Baratz | |
| No Impact Man | 2009 | U.S. | Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein | |
| The Messenger | 2009 | U.S. | Oren Moverman | |
| Beautiful Losers | 2009 | U.S. | Aaron Rose | |
| Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell | 2008 | U.S. | Matt Wolf | |
| Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot | 2008 | U.S. | Adam Yauch | |
| FLOW: For Love of Water | 2008 | France | Irena Salina | |
| Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father | 2008 | U.S. | Kurt Kuenne | |
| Wendy and Lucy | 2008 | U.S. | Kelly Reichardt | |
| Frontrunners | 2008 | U.S. | Caroline Suh | |
| Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie | 2008 | U.S. | 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.
- ^ The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Variety
- ^ IndieWire
- ^ "Oscilloscope shines up 'Apple Pushers'". Variety. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
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