Zachary Oberzan

An elaborate experiment with the concept of Before-and-After photographs, Your Brother. Remember? splices and dices home videos, Hollywood film footage and live performance.

As kids in rural America, Zachary and his older brother Gator loved making parodies of their favourite films, most notably Jean-Claude Van Damme’s karate opus Kickboxer, and the notorious cult film Faces of Death. Then twenty years passed. Just as in Mr. Van Damme’s life, the simple childhood desire for love gets confused with fame, drugs and ambition.

Estranged from his family, Zack returned to his childhood home to re-create these films, shot for shot, but now seen through a twenty-year lens of emotional and physical wear and tear. One brother became an actor. The other self-destructed. Which is which? How different are these lives? Could this story have turned out the other way around? Maybe…

Suitable for age 16 and over.