Jon Springer (born in 1966) is an American
independent filmmaker
An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, i ...
whose
science fiction
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and
horror
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Genres
*Horror fiction, a genre of fiction
**Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction
** Korean horror, Korean horror fiction
*Horror film, a film genre
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films combine explicit imagery with religious subtext.
Biography
Springer produced and directed The Hagstone Demon,
a feature-length horror film starring indie-film icon
Mark Borchardt
Mark Borchardt (born August 20, 1966) is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film ''American Movie'', which documented three years he spent writing, shooting and editing his horror short, ''Coven'' (1997 ...
(subject of the 1999 documentary
American Movie
''American Movie'' is a 1999 American documentary film directed by Chris Smith, produced by Smith and Sarah Price, and edited by Jun Diaz and Barry Poltermann. The film chronicles the making of ''Coven'', an independent short horror film direc ...
), and underground cinema artist
Lung Leg
Lung Leg (born Elisabeth Carr; July 8, 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American pin-up girl and actress perhaps best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album '' EVOL''. During the 1980s, she gained fame as a model an ...
.
The Hagstone Demon
''The Hagstone Demon'' is a 2009 American supernatural horror film directed, co-written, co-produced, photographed, and edited by Jon Springer. The film stars Mark Borchardt as an alcoholic writer and caretaker plagued by demonic forces, with N ...
premiered at the 2009
TromaDance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
and screened as a double-bill with ''American Movie'' (1999) at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Springer's style has been criticized as derivative of directors
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of nove ...
and
George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (; February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor and actor. His ''Night of the Living Dead'' series of films about an imagined zombie apocalypse began with the 1968 film of the ...
.
Springer was called “a filmmaker who sees nothing as taboo” by Film Threat in 2002,
and named “most audacious filmmaker” in his native state of Minnesota in 2002.
[http://www.secretsofthecity.com/magazine/reporting/straight-talk/meet-local-filmmaker-jon-springer]
Filmography
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Living people
American film directors
1966 births
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