GO DOWN DEATH

Go Down Death is the wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a melange of macabre folktales, supposedly penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus. An abandoned warehouse stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition, and disease, while threatening to buckle under rumblings of the apocalypse. Soldiers are lost and found in endless woods; a child gravedigger is menaced by a shape-shifting physician, a syphilitic john bares all to a young prostitute, a disfigured outcast yearns for the affections of a tone-deaf cabaret singer...

Aaron Schimberg Aaron Schimberg is an independent filmmaker living and working in New York. He has directed several experimental short films (Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth, Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper and Wolf-Alice). He produced John's of 12th Street, a feature documentary directed by Vanessa McDonnell. He is a programmer at Brooklyn's Spectacle Theater, where he most recently co-curated a retrospective of the films of Koji Wakamatsu. Go Down Death is his first feature film.