Movies: Benny Safdie

Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art. His Ralph Handel is a humorless white-collar worker who unaccountably spends his nights working the open mic circuit. Safdie bravely committed himself...

This is the story of a lonely man named John. He wanders through the city into various acquaintances of varying levels of niceness. He sees a lot of people but sometimes they just don't want to be bothered with him....

SOLID GOLD is an experiment in street performance and how to be seen. It's about a Golden Man in the streets and subways of New York, who tries and that's all that matters....

JAY-Z reminisces on his days as a hustler in Marcy Houses in Brooklyn....

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships....

Trophy Hunter, a short, fake documentary about illegal wildlife trade that Josh and Benny made for the Turtle Conservancy in 2012. It features the late great New York icon Glenn O’Brien visiting an eccentric Chinese collector....

John embarks on a trip to Coney Island for a day of fun and happiness. Things don't quite work out as planned....

A woman's car breaks down at a house in the woods. She looks out the window to see a variety of bizarre activities....

This is the story of a man named Charles Riverbank, who upon losing his home, wanders into various adventures and lot of dirty looks....