Zachary Oberzan in The Great Pretender @ Rania Moslam

Reviews

"It’s not hard to imagine Mr. Oberzan’s work being exhibited as a highminded
gallery installation. Instead, his determined effort renders with compassion and
humor a specific kind of family dynamic." --NEW YORK TIMES, CRITIC'S PICK

“Goosebumps, one doesn’t receive a gift like that every day in theatre."--DE
MORGEN, BRUSSELS

“Oberzan has not just walked the line between irony and sincerity, he’s erased
it.” --VOGUE

"The performance starts quite mysteriously and it is difficult to puzzle out the
varied pieces and put them together. Is this reality or fiction? Until I suddenly
ended up in a dazzling theatrical performance, and I live in [Oberzan's] own
little world. Genius."-- NEXT Festival, KORTRIJK

"The story-telling is crafty, compelling, and heartfelt enough to explode any
sense of cheeky irony. Oberzan means every word." --TIME OUT NEW YORK

“Zachary Oberzan has done the unthinkable....Though his work is extremely
personal, Oberzan’s films also ask genuinely deep questions about inspiration,
execution, and purpose when it comes to gathering up the reckless courage
to make a movie." --FILMMAKER MAGAZINE

Zachary Oberzan an der Gessnerallee
"Tell me Love is Real", 2014

Künstler-Biografie (english)

Zachary Oberzan
is a founding member of the theater collective Nature
Theater of Oklahoma, based in New York City. With Nature Theater, he has
collaborated and performed in numerous productions, including Poetics: a
ballet brut, the Obie-winning No Dice, and the one-man show Rambo Solo. His
feature film Flooding with Love for The Kid (an adaptation of the novel First
Blood, which introduced the world to the character of Rambo) is a one-man
cinematic war shot and edited in its entirety by Zachary (portraying all 26 roles)
in his 220 square foot apartment in Manhattan, made for $96. It is currently
screening internationally in theaters, art institutes and film festivals. Your
brother. Remember? premiered in May 2010 at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in
Brussels, and is currently touring world-wide. A stand-alone film version of Your
brother. Remember? had its cinematic premiere in New York City in 2012. He
has performed with The Wooster Group and Richard Foreman, and released
two albums of original songs, most recently Athletes of Romance. His last solo
work, Tell Me Love Is Real, a theater/film/musical hybrid, premiered in October
2013 at deSingel Antwerp and is currently touring internationally.