Oscilloscope (company)

Oscilloscope

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Motion picture
Founded	2006 (2006)
Founder	Adam Yauch David Fenkel
Key people	Dan Berger
Website	oscilloscope.net

Oscilloscope Laboratories is an independent film company, distributor, recording studio, and production facility. It was founded in 2006 by Adam Yauch and former TH!NKFilm executive David Fenkel, with Fenkel initially serving as president. ^[1]

Two years later, in 2008, Dan Berger was named president of Oscilloscope. ^{[2] [3]}

In May 2012, Fenkel left the company to co-found A24.^{[ citation needed ]}

Releases

Film	Year	Country	Director(s)	Notes	Spine Number
Mistress Dispeller	2025	U.S.-China	Elizabeth Lo
God & Country [4]	2024	U.S.	Dan Partland		151
Wildcat [5]		U.S.	Ethan Hawke
Sometimes I Think About Dying		U.S.	Rachel Lambert		150
Canary [6]	2023	U.S.	Danny O'Malley Alex Rivest		144
Piaffe [7]	2022	Germany	Ann Oren		145
Shortbus		U.S.	John Cameron Mitchell	re-release (2006)	128
Claydream	2021	U.S.	Marq Evans		133
Poser		U.S.	Ori Segev, Noah Dixon		132
The Tale of King Crab		Italy	Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis		130
Anonymous Club		Australia	Danny Cohen		136
Clara Sola		Costa Rica	Nathalie Álvarez Mesén		135
Stanleyville		Canada	Maxwell McCabe-Lokos		131
So Late So Soon		U.S.	Daniel Hymanson		123
The Velvet Queen		France	Marie Amiguet		129
No Ordinary Man		Canada	Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt		126
Les Nôtres		Canada	Jeanne Leblanc		125
Silo		U.S.	Marshall Burnette		124
Sophie Jones		U.S.	Jessie Barr		122
Truth to Power		U.S.	Garin Hovannisian		121
What Happened Was...		U.S.	Tom Noonan	re-release	116
Billy the Kid	2020	U.S.	Jennifer Venditti	re-release (2007)
The Twentieth Century		Canada	Matthew Rankin		115
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words		Belgium, Germany	Reiner Holzemer		120
We Are Little Zombies		Japan	Makoto Nagahisa		114
All I Can Say		U.S.	Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould, Colleen Hennessy, Shannon Hoon
Clementine		U.S.	Lara Jean Gallagher		117
The Infiltrators		Canada	Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera		112
Run This Town [8]		Canada	Ricky Tollman
Saint Frances		U.S.	Alex Thompson
Cane River		U.S.	Horace B. Jenkins	re-release (1982)	111
VHYES		U.S.	Jack Henry Robbins
Midnight Traveler	2019	U.S.	Hassan Fazili
Ms. Purple			Justin Chon
Jay Myself			Stephen Wilkes
The Hours and Times			Christopher Munch	re-release (1991)
Relaxer			Joel Potrykus
Combat Obscura			Miles Lagoze
Wrestle			Lauren Belfer, Suzannah Herbert
Hal	2018	U.S.	Amy Scott
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection			Julien Faraut
Madeline's Madeline			Josephine Decker
Searching for Ingmar Bergman		France, Germany	Felix Moeller, Margarethe von Trotta
The King		U.S.	Eugene Jarecki
On Her Shoulders			Alexandria Bombach
Summer 1993		Spain, U.S.	Carla Simón
Sollers Point		U.S.	Matthew Porterfield
November		Estonia, Poland, Netherlands	Rainer Sarnet
Song of Granite	2017	U.S.	Pat Collins
Beauty and the Dogs		France, U.S.	Kaouther Ben Hania
May It Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers		U.S.	Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio
Bobbi Jene			Elvira Lind
Brimstone & Glory			Viktor Jakloveski
The Road Movie		Belarus, U.S.	Dmitrii Kalashnikov
Polina		France	Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj
Santoalla		Spain, U.S.	Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer
Kedi		U.S.	Ceyda Torun
Always Shine [9]		U.S.	Sophia Takal		78
Contemporary Color		U.S.	Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross		80
The Love Witch [10]	2016	U.S.	Anna Biller
Girl Asleep		U.S.	Rosemary Myers
Lost in Paris		U.S.	Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
The Alchemist Cookbook		U.S.	Joel Potrykus
Notes on Blindness		U.K.	Peter Middleton, James Spinney	Short film
One Week and a Day		Israel	Asaph Polonsky
Pickle (short film) [11]		U.S.	Amy Nicholson
The Fits		U.S.	Anna Rose Holmer
Ma Ma		Spain, France	Julio Medem
The Wait		Italy, France	Piero Messina
Embrace of the Serpent	2015	Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina	Ciro Guerra
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy		U.K.	David Evans
Above and Below		Switzerland, Germany	Nicholas Steiner
Body		U.S.	Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
The Second Mother		Brazil	Anna Muylaert
Félix & Meira		Canada	Maxime Giroux
El Elefante Desaparecido (The Vanished Elephant)		Peru, Colombia, Spain	Javier Fuentes-León
The Past is a Grotesque Animal		U.S.	Jason Miller
The Wonders		Italy, Switzerland, Germany	Alice Rohrwacher		85
Catch Me Daddy		U.K.	Daniel Wolfe		83
Mad as Hell		U.S.	Andrew Napier		88
The Kill Team	2014		Dan Krauss		78
Art and Craft			Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman; co-directed by Mark Becker		79
Gabriel			Lou Howe
Low Down			Jeff Preiss		80
Soul of a Banquet			Wayne Wang		81
Buzzard			Joel Potrykus		82
Animals			Collin Schiffi		87
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets		U.K.	Florian Habicht		86
Big Significant Things		U.S.	Bryan Reisberg		84
Whitewash		Canada	Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais		71
12 O'Clock Boys		U.S.	Lotfy Nathan		56
Teenage		Germany	Matt Wolf		57
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors	2013	U.S.	Sam Fleischner		72
Coherence		U.K.	James Ward Byrkit		77
About Sunny		U.S.	Bryan Wizemann		62
Dying to do Letterman			Joke Fincioen, Biagio Messina		63
Welcome to Pine Hill			Keith Miller		64
Wasteland		U.K.	Rowan Athale		65
A Teacher		U.S.	Hannah Fidell		67
Breakup at a Wedding			Victor Quinaz		68
Off Label			Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher		69
Our Day Will Come		France	Romain Gavras		70
Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns		U.S.	Joe Callander	Short film	73
It's a Disaster			Todd Berger [2]		52
These Birds Walk		Pakistan, U.S.	Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq		53
Mother of George		Nigeria	Andrew Dosunmu		54
After Tiller		U.S.	Martha Shane, Lana Wilson		55
The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best			Ryan O'Nan		47
Jingle Bell Rocks!		Canada	Mitchell Kezin		58
Bunohan: Return to Murder		Malaysia	Dain Said		60
Metro Manila		U.K.	Sean Ellis
The Rise	2012	U.S.	Rowan Athale
We Need to Talk About Kevin	2012	U.K.	Lynne Ramsay		43
Happy Few	2012	France	Antony Cordier	Released as Four Lovers
Shut Up and Play the Hits	2012	U.S.	Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern		45
Hello I Must Be Going	2012	U.S.	Todd Louiso		46
The Apple Pushers [12]	2012	U.S.	Mary Mazzio		75
Only the Young	2012	U.S.	Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims		48
Tchoupitoulas	2012	U.S.	Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross		49
Reality	2012	Italy	Matteo Garrone		50
Wuthering Heights	2012	U.K.	Andrea Arnold		51
We Can't Go Home Again	2012	U.S.	Nicholas Ray		39
Samsara	2012	U.S.	Ron Fricke		59
Oma & Bella	2012	Germany	Alexa Karolinski		61
28 Hotel Rooms	2012	U.S.	Matt Ross		35
Dark Days	2011	U.S.	Marc Singer	re-release (2000)	36
Don't Expect Too Much	2011	U.S.	Susan Ray		92
Compassion in Emptiness	2011	U.S.	Dalai Lama
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front	2011	U.S.	Marshall Curry		38
Bellflower	2011	U.S.	Evan Glodell		40
Rebirth	2011	U.S.	Jim Whitaker		41
The Other F Word	2011	U.S.	Andrea Blaugrund Nevins		42
Monogamy	2011	U.S.	Dana Adam Shapiro		29
The Unloved	2011	U.K.	Samantha Morton		30
Meek's Cutoff	2011	U.S.	Kelly Reichardt		31
Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour	2011	U.S.	Kerthy Fix		33
Bananas!*	2011	Sweden	Fredrik Gertten		24
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love	2010	U.S.	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi		20
The Maid (La Nana)		Chile	Sebastián Silva		21
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak		U.S.	Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze	Companion to Where the Wild Things Are	22
The Exploding Girl		U.S.	Bradley Rust Gray		23
A Film Unfinished		Israel	Yael Hersonski		25
Howl		U.S.	Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman		26
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within		U.S.	Yony Leyser		27
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale		U.S.	Richard Shepard		28
Exit Through the Gift Shop		U.S.	Banksy	Home release only	32
Kisses		Ireland	Lance Daly		9
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale		Finland	Jalmari Helander		34
The Paranoids		Argentina	Gabriel Medina		14
The Thorn in the Heart (L’Epine dans le Coeur)		France	Michel Gondry		16
Polytechnique	2009	Canada	Denis Villeneuve		91
Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig)		Denmark	Henrik Ruben Genz		17
Treeless Mountain		Korea	So Yong Kim		7
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man		U.S.	Stephen Kijak		8
The Garden		U.S.	Scott Hamilton Kennedy		10
The Law (La Loi)		U.S.	Jules Dassin	re-release (1959)	11
Burma VJ		Denmark	Anders Østergaard		12
Unmistaken Child		Israel	Nati Baratz		13
No Impact Man		U.S.	Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein		15
The Messenger			Oren Moverman		18
Beautiful Losers			Aaron Rose		19
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell	2008		Matt Wolf		74
Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot			Adam Yauch		1
FLOW: For Love of Water		France	Irena Salina		2
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father		U.S.	Kurt Kuenne		3
Wendy and Lucy			Kelly Reichardt		4
Frontrunners			Caroline Suh		5
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie			Jay Delaney		6

References

1. Martin, Michael (2008-06-21). "How Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Turned Into a Filmmaker". New York . Retrieved 2012-05-04.
2. "Todd Berger's Apocalyptic 'It's A Disaster' Goes to Laub and Berger's Oscilloscope". 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
3. Thielman, Sam (2009-06-30). "Oscilloscope, WB team up online". Variety. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
4. Boorstein, Michelle (January 11, 2024). 'God & Country' film spotlights Christian nationalism’s threat to democracy". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
5. Complex, Valerie (2024-01-17). "Oscilloscope Acquires Ethan Hawke Film 'Wildcat'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
6. "'Canary' Review: A Portrait of Perseverance". The New York Times . September 14, 2023.
7. Sophie Monks Kaufman (August 12, 2022). "'Piaffe' Review: A Horse's Tail Invokes a Sexual Awakening in Thrilling New Erotic Cinema Entry". IndieWire. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
8. Ramos, Dino-Ray (2020-01-23). "Oscilloscope Teams With Twitter For Innovative Release Of Ricky Tollman's 'Run This Town' Starring Ben Platt". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
9. The Hollywood Reporter
10. "Cannes: Oscilloscope Buys Anna Biller's 'The Love Witch'". Variety . 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2023-06-16.
11. IndieWire
12. "Oscilloscope shines up 'Apple Pushers'". Variety. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012.

External links

• Official website