Full HD version of dir. Brock Labrenz’s Chair Story. The film features Bernhardt Design’s latest chair, Corvo, designed by Noe Duchaufour-Lawrance.

“One of the most enchanting videos ever documenting the birth of a chair”- Fast company.com

THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), a film of the acclaimed Greenwich Music Festival stage production, premiered April 14, 2010 at the 2010 Westchester Jewish Film Festival at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.

The production was captured in vivid HD video by filmmaker Brock Labrenz and features the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and soloists from the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia and La Scala with music and stage direction by festival co-founders Robert Ainsley and Ted Huffman.

Reception and Q&A to follow with Ted Huffman, Artistic Director of the Greenwich Music Festival, and film director Brock Labrenz.

Originally a half-evening length abstract dance theater work,  Vesper premiered in central New Jersey Fall 2009.  The work was choreographed by Brock Labrenz and Stuart Loungway of Terra Firma and featured dancers Lester Badenoch, Rosalia Chann, Brittany Fridenstine-Keefe, Lydia Haug, Matthew Keefe, Jonathan Royse Windham. Featuring cinematography by Bliss Holloway and original music by Brian McKenna.

A film version of the piece, directed by Brock Labrenz, premiered at the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in Barcelona, Spain in Summer 2010.  Vesper will be screening at the San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema at the Atlas Institute in Boulder, Colorado on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Check out the festival’s website for more information: SansSouciFest.org

In the fall of 2008, An Films spent 5 weeks in Northern China on research & development for the script, as well as shooting a trailer, for its upcoming feature-film, Chinaland.

The ensuing script follows Alyssa, a New York gallery owner, as she attempts to escape her own identity by putting her life in the hands of an illicit Chinese cultural fantasy service. But when the service’s CEO substitutes himself into her fantasy in lieu of the pre-selected male lover, a steamy love affair ensues. Reality and fantasy collide, and the service’s elaborate made-to-order village has to be shut down. Abandoned and bewildered, Alyssa is forced to find her bearings in modern China and track down the lover who betrayed her. Along the way, she must contend with whether she’s seeking revenge, or just holding onto a lost fantasy.

In the year 1901, in the outskirts of an estate in upstate New York, two women are intimately thrown together by accident when Charlotte, a wealthy married woman, helps Renee, a beautiful young woman, as she suffers from heat stroke. Charlotte is terrified to discover an overwhelming sexual desire for Renee. Over the course of an afternoon, Renee and Charlotte are forced to contend with their desires, the dangerousness of their potential relationship, and the power and beauty they have the ability to evoke in one another.

Production is wrapped on our latest short film, 1901. Principle Photography took place July 24th – 26^th in Hunter, NY.  Post Production has begun and the assemblage is proving very exciting. We have invited Brad Crane, a classical composer, to create the score. 1901 will be completed by the middle of the Fall. Please check back for news and screenings.

Producers: Natalie Thomas, Dorottya Mathe, Brock Labrenz 


Director: Brock Labrenz 


Executive Producer: Laine Rettmer 


Co-executive Producer: Edward Leung 


Director of Photography: Bliss Holloway 


Cast: Natalie Thomas, Laine Rettmer, Jeremy Goren and Ethen Halper

Costume Designer: Elisa Santiago 


Catering by: Heather and Brad Thomason

Score: Brad Crane

1901 is made possible by generous individual donations and Kickstarter.

Excerpt from Soir Bleu –  one of the five films that make up Impermanent Collection: The Whitney Museum of American Art (2007).  Charly Totterwitz as a crazed art fan caught in the Whitney bathrooms trying to recreate Edward Hopper’s Soir Bleu.

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s quick cell phone flick, Loose Constraint (2009).

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s quick cell phone flick, Loose Constraint (2009).

This is a short excerpt from parts 1 & 4 of Make Series (2007) directed by Brock Labrenz featuring Matthew Brookoff and James Labrenz.

Excerpt from Dorottya Mathe’s Devoted To Dance (2010), a documentary about Hungarian choreographer Ivan Marko, filmed by Brock Labrenz during a live performance of Marko’s Scheherazade.

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s documentary about visual artist Edward Vilga (2008).

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s documentary about visual artist Edward Vilga (2008).

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s documentary about North Carolina’s Adult Life Programs (2008).

Excerpt from part 3 of dir. Brock Labrenz’s Make Series (2007).

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s Makena (2005).

Impermanent Collection: The Whitney Museum of American Art, directed by Brock Labrenz, written by Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly, are a series of films created for and in response to the Whitney Museum of American Art. In total we created five video portraits that resonate the experience of five performers reacting to five works of art from the Whitney’s permanent collection.

Selected stills from 2003-2008.

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s iPhone Hysteria (2007) spot created for Popsci.com with cinematography from Bradley Grant and music by Brian McKenna.

Excerpt from dir. Brock Labrenz’s iPhone Hysteria (2007) spot created for Popsci.com with cinematography from Bradley Grant and music by Brian McKenna