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SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL // SCREENINGS OCT 15-16

“A spellbinding desert noir” - MovieMaker

Huge thank you to @sdfilmfestival for including us in this year’s lineup. So many great films. So many talented storytellers.

🐍 by @thecrooker

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Thrilled to announce that AMERICAN MUSCLE is an official selection at the 25th Annual San Diego International Film Festival! Many thanks to @sdfilmfestival for the opportunity to share our film in this year’s lineup. “Never take pity on a scoundrel.” Oct 15 & 16 🐍 by @thecrooker

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Really excited to finally share this one. Through @ghostgangproductions I had the great opportunity to produce Joe Swanberg’s new film, and I couldn’t be happier to for everyone to see it soon.

Joe is such a singular filmmaker, and getting to make a movie with him has been an incredible experience. It also means a lot to be working with one of my great friends, @shilohfernandez , who is an incredible actor and someone I’ve wanted to collaborate with in this way for a long time.

And @marcsenter is just a force. He brings so much intensity, instinct and unpredictability to his work, and it’s been amazing watching what he’s bringing to this film.

Couldn’t ask for a better group to be making it with, cinematographer @kevinveselka and Production Designer costume Designer, and Actor @slikk and I’m really proud to be producing alongside @arianaparsa and the rest of the team.

Huge thanks to @variety for the announcement. by @thecrooker

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EL PASO… This town holds a special place in my heart. We are thrilled to be included in this year’s lineup @elpasofilmfestival. We put the finishing touches on American Muscle at Rio Bravo Outpost and a few years back I had the pleasure of attending the festival with a film I wrote called Old Man directed by the great @lucky_mckee_official. I cannot wait to be back in Texas with one of the best film communities in the country! Thank you to @carlos.corral and everyone at the fest 🙏 by @thecrooker

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Ghost Gang had a wonderful night at the @burbankfilmfest , premiering our film @americanmusclemovie as its Los Angeles premiere. In attendance: Write/director @joelveach, lead actress @litaflita and producer @thecrooker A near-sold-out screening at AMC couldn’t have been happier with the turnout and the love for the film. It plays so well in a theater. Congrats to the cast and crew. Produced by Ghost Gang Productions. taken in Burbank International Film Festival by @thecrooker

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2 months ago

Photography has always been my first love. Long before I ever stepped onto a film set, I was studying the work of artists who understood that a photograph could be unsettling, seductive, elegant, and confrontational all at once.

Robert Mapplethorpe taught me that light can sculpt the body like marble. Joel-Peter Witkin showed me that beauty can exist in places most people refuse to look. Irving Penn revealed the power of restraint. Helmut Newton embraced confidence, sexuality, and tension. Diane Arbus reminded us that the margins often hold the most compelling stories.

This latest series for @sonofwolfla, featuring @onemorefix and the handcrafted leather thong know as Salvation, was an opportunity to explore that lineage through my own lens. Less about shock, more about form. Less about fetish, more about identity, craftsmanship, power, and the way light transforms black latex and leather into sculpture.

Every reflection was intentional. Every shadow mattered.

Photography will always be home. by @thecrooker

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Last night I had the privilege of meeting one of my greatest artistic heroes, Joel-Peter Witkin. @joelpeterwitkinstudio

Long before I ever picked up a movie camera, I wanted to be a photographer. His work was one of the reasons why. His photographs showed me that images didn’t just have to be beautiful. They could be unsettling, poetic, symbolic, deeply human, and emotionally unforgettable.

His work exists somewhere between dreams, death, mythology, religion, and surrealism. Every frame feels like a centuries-old painting unearthed from another world, forcing you to look past the surface and confront something deeper about life, mortality, and what it means to be human.

That fearless approach to storytelling through imagery has influenced so much of what I do today, from my photography to the way I compose frames as a filmmaker. His willingness to create without compromise has been a constant reminder that art should challenge us as much as it moves us.

Spending the evening with him was surreal. To finally meet someone whose work helped shape my artistic voice was an experience I’ll never forget. Thank you, Joel, for the inspiration, the conversation, and for creating work that continues to push artists like me to see the world differently. by @thecrooker

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3 months ago

GHOSTS was always meant to live between worlds.

I shot this film for @hereticparfum to sit alongside @chelseawolfeofficial new songs, Death Is Not The End and The Dark. One universe, two forms. The fragrances grew out of her records, hours lost inside those haunting sonic landscapes, and the video came from the same well. Memory that lingers. Shadows that breathe. The thing that stays in the room long after the person is gone.

Ghosts were never about endings. They’re about what refuses to leave. The traces we carry. The spirits that stay.

Music and scent, two expressions of the same ethereal universe. Step inside.

@hereticparfum @chelseawolfeofficial by @thecrooker

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4 months ago

Somewhere between the last scene and the first page.
Still chasing stories. by @thecrooker

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Getting to collaborate with @hereticparfum again is always something special. Doing it alongside Chelsea Wolfe made it something else entirely. GHOSTS is exactly what it sounds like a fragrance that is haunting, beautiful, and impossible to shake.

Video: @thecrooker
Artist: @chelseawolfeofficial
Styling: @kit.katastrophee
Makeup: @gregoryarlt
Hair: @jonlieckfeltbeauty by @thecrooker

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4 months ago

Florence called. So did my producer. Answered both taken in Florence, Italy by @thecrooker

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NOMINATED FOR BEST FEATURE DEBUT! @raindancefilmfestival Congratulations to writer/director @joelveach and my fantastic cast and crew! by @thecrooker

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