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Greg Roensch

Greg Roensch

San Francisco
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Cinematic Arts

  • Director
Focus
Directing, Writing
Genres
Experimental, Art & Design, Music, Indie & Arthouse

Projects

He Runs

It's an afternoon like any other when a man leaves home for a short jog through his neighborhood. Little does he know that his jog will become a race for his life. This short animated poetry film (3 minutes) was inspired by the tragic death of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020.

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Late Afternoon Ocean Beach

A plump gray cartoon mouse. A black cat. A conversation at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This short poetry film captures the sights and sounds of the beach, with a soundtrack featuring snapping guitar strings and marimba.

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Then Came the Firestorm

This is a poetry-film about a firestorm, a pandemic, and murder hornets. Yes, it pretty much sums up the last year and a half ... and counting. Featuring original music by Crystal Pascucci (cello) and Ryan Ross Smith (electronics).

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Chernobyl

Step right this way. The show's about to begin. Hurry, hurry. It's gonna be a blast. I wrote this post-apocalyptic-pop song after reading an article about how Chernobyl has become a tourist destination.

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Dear Leviathan

A pandemic-lockdown-influenced poetry-film – and an audio-visual rumination – about big-mouthed politicians and the lies they spew.

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Don't Forget to Pack Your Hand Grenade

While waiting in an airport security line, I saw the usual signs. No sharp objects. No flammable substances. No firearms. Then my attention was drawn to an image of a grenade with a slash through it. Is this what we've come to, I thought? That's where this song came from.

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Giant Rock

A desert dream vision. A deathbed hallucination. An extraterrestrial encounter. In this short poetry-film, the narrator visits the Southern California desert where he relives various stages of his life while wandering through a surreal landscape.

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This Is Where We'll Build the Labyrinth

An old oak falls in a vineyard, leaving a large dirt patch in the middle of the vines. It's the perfect spot for a labyrinth, the narrator thinks as he ponders the news of the day, from the climate crisis to the latest mass shooting to the first images from the Webb telescope.

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THE MISSING BOOK

"A book is missing from my shelf..." So begins this short poetry-video in which the narrator ruminates on the imagined contents of his missing book.

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