Rodney Ascher

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

USA

Rodney Ascher

Biography

Rodney Ascher is a filmmaker whose feature debut, the ‘subjective documentary' ROOM 237 (IFC) looked at Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining through the eyes of five very different people, each obsessed with solving its countless mysteries. The film premiered at Sundance in 2012 before screening at festivals around the world including Cannes, London, the Vienalle, Sitges, Toronto, and New York. His follow-up, the ‘horror-documentary’ THE NIGHTMARE (Gravitas Ventures) explored the phenomenon of ‘sleep paralysis’ and it likewise debuted at Sundance where it was called The Scariest Movie of the decade” and “One of the scariest documentaries ever’ bef...

Acting

2016

2023

Lynch/Oz

as Host (Chapter 2: 'Membranes') (voice)

2018

Production

2021

2021

A Glitch in the Matrix

as Executive Producer

2012

Room 237

as Editor

2012

Room 237

as Director

2006

Somebody Goofed

as Director

2006

2010

2010

The S from Hell

as Director

2006

Hot Chicks

as Director

2014

ABCs of Death 2

as Director

2014

2014

1997

Alfred

as Director

2015

The Nightmare

as Director

2015

The Nightmare

as Editor

2011

The Universal Language

as Graphic Designer

2024

Delicate Arch

as Executive Producer

2017

Primal Screen

as Director

-

Fourth Wall

as Executive Producer

2018

Sex Madness Revealed

as Executive Producer

2019

2008

2008

2014

2019

Swans: Where Does a Body End?

as Executive Producer

2021

2012

Room 237

as Writer

2025

Ghost Boy

as Director

2025

Ghost Boy

as Editor

2012

Swans: The Seer - Live DVD

as Additional Camera

2025

Ghost Boy

as Writer

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