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Zuckerman currently runs a studio based in Silverlake, Los Angeles, which specializes in film scoring and editing post-production on a range of projects from commercial tv/film to contemporary visual art. For inquiries visit:

studiodavidlouiszuckerman.com

The work archived on this page collects a range of selected projects as composer, director, film editor, actor and visual artist.


Projects

―   Ostrava Days Festival 2021

―   Hyle String Trio

―   Fissão – Ostrava Days Festival

―   Ismay: Guide To Ismay Vol.1

―   Aplauso: Os Olhos Escutam

―   Full-Contact Minimalism

―   Penny Film

―   Reading/Non-Reading

―   8 X 8 Composers/Choreographers

―   Bar Bar – Performance

―   Casa de Buonaguro-Foerster

―   Ontopo 2018

―   Magick City Residency

―   How I Pulled Myself Out Of Swamp

―   Capitalist Realism Surinomo

―   Good Samaritans-NYCP

―   Sister-Song Benefit Performance

―   Eyes_1

―   How About A Game

―   Cologne Of The Maghreb

―   Really

―   S.E.M. Ensemble, Emerging Concert

―   The Evening-NYCP

―   The Augur-Untitled Radio

―   Jiro, Digital Painting-Musical

―   Cordelia Film

―   The Harmers – LA

―   The Harmers – NYC

―   Icarus-Film

―   Milarepa Opera Benefit

―   The And Group

―   The Auger – David Lewis Gallery

―   End of The Night Café

―   Ariella Von – Film

―   Wolfe with an E

―   Phoebe Zeitgeist – 16mm Film

―   A Cool Breeze on the Back of the Neck

―   Ivan The Bloodburst -Cassette

―   Scores and Objects


Bio

David Louis Zuckerman is a composer, multi-media artist, writer and director. Before moving to Los Angeles, Zuckerman toured internationally with renowned American playwright Richard Maxwell’s theater company NYCP, and was a critic at Film Comment magazine writing about contemporary cinema. Zuckerman is an alumnus of the Skowhegan Residency, the Labyrinth Theater Ensemble and the S.E.M. Emerging Composers Workshop. He has made performance installations at David Lewis Gallery, JOAN Los Angeles, Anthology Film Archives, Kunstverein Cologne, Moma-New Director/New Films, The Dallas Museum of Art and others. He studied film scoring at Berklee College of Music and holds a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in Video Art and an MFA in Film/Video from Bard College. His work has been covered in Art in America, LA Weekly, Artforum, Cahiers du Cinema, Purple Magazine, Hyperallergic, The New York Times and Filthy Dreams. Get in touch.

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Cordelia Film

Cordelia (2016)
Feature Film by Writer/Director:
Veronica Gonzalez Peña
Editor- David Zuckerman
Original Score- David Zuckerman

Cast:
Douglas Gordon -Jester
Michel Auder-Alain Moreau
Ingrid Astley-Ingrid / Regan
Cecile Casablancas-Ceci
Penelope Pardo-Penelope / Young Cordelia
David Louis Zuckerman-Play Director
Servane Mary Servane Mary-Marie Moreau
Pat Steir-Pat-Queen Lear
Alice Weiner-Alice
Phillippe Jacquet-Fifi
Jose Martos-Paul
Gabriel Hottinger-Gabby
Hugo Hottinger-Hugo-King Lear
Edie Astley-Edie-Goneril



Synopsis
Distraught over her mother's death, Marie suddenly hears from the father who abandoned her as a little girl. He knows her mother has died and wants to come see his daughter after a 35 year absence. Wary and excited both, Marie decides to let him visit her and her family at their country house. Her husband warns her, "You will be disappointed," he says. "You should not bring him here." Nonetheless, she allows her estranged father to come, and is instantly shocked when he arrives. Alain is an artist, cocky and self-assured, a sexy 'bad daddy' who immediately begins to disrupt Marie's quiet country life. At a dinner in his honor Alain feels backed into a corner as he defensively recounts all the reasons why he left Marie and her mother. Later that night Alain commits an act she may not be able to forgive. It is then that Marie must confront the reality of who her father really is and decide if he is someone she wants to allow into her life. Meanwhile, the children of the town put on a production of King Lear. It is here that we understand the deep tragedy of a demanding narcissistic father, not only for the daughter who is cast away, but for the father himself.