My Own Wings
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with “both” sexes but born with a variation from the standard of […]
Public Money
Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called “participatory budgeting”, wherein community members gain a role in deciding how to spend part of a public budget. Following the process over one year in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park—a multicultural neighborhood […]
Neighbors
Jake just got locked out of Aubrey’s apartment. In his underwear. Brad was nice enough to step into the hallway to tell him to go home. But if Jake could just borrow a pair of pants… NEIGHBORS is a short film about the lengths we will (and won’t) go to for imperfect strangers. writer/director/editor/cinematographer
Sustainable Barbuda
A short documentary on food security in the small island state of Barbuda. co-director/editor/cinematographer
Animal
A short film about the existential terror of coming of age.writer/director/producer/editor
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu MergiaShort FilmComing 2021 Directed by Lorena Alvarado & Adam GolferEditor: Lorena AlvaradoDP: Adam GolferProducer: Jessica BeshirColor: Cédric von NiederhäusernSound Design: Luciana Foglio Translations: Menbere Awoke, Jessica BeshirMusic by Hailu Mergia: Courtesy of Awesome Tapes from AfricaThank you to Hailu Mergia and the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective
800 Jahre
Directed by Daniel Shea and Adam GolferMusic: “Legende” by Roedelius2020
Two Sunsets
“Two Sunsets” (2020) is an experimental film essay, framed by 2 photographs of a sunset Golfer discovered in a box of his dad’s belongings, 10 years after his death. The mysterious provenance of the 2 pictures permeates the film in multiple imagined conversations unfurling across time and space: between Golfer’s cousin (a 24 year-old recovering […]
Router
Router2017 Router follows two individuals: Chris, a war re-enactor who takes on the role of a Nazi trooper, and Constance, a pianist and performance artist from New York. Both of them inhabit multiple fictional planes, unknowingly drawing comparisons and connections to one another while referencing historical traumas that are never explicitly discussed. In each instance, […]
We’ll Do the Rest
“We’ll Do the Rest”Adam Golfer2015We’ll Do the Rest concerns the intersecting dream narratives of a female drone pilot, the unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur, and a story of high school gang violence in Louisiana. Nightmare visions are described as two individuals recall and re-inhabit fragmentary and traumatic memories from their pasts. Recollections of watching a […]