Zachary Oberzan
Himself
In the winter of 2012, two famous American performance artists sat in anonymous hotel rooms on the West Coast, waiting to take the stage, and in a bizarre coincidence, over-dosed on the anxiety drug Xanax. One survived, one did not. The two individuals are Whitney Houston, who tragically died, and the author of this piece, who lived. Incarcerated in a psychiatric ward, the author began an arduous and experimental journey towards recovery. What is life, and why should we live it, having had it thrust upon us like the assigned reading of a baffling mystery novel, the chapters jumbled, the text often incomprehensible? In the thirty-seven years of life leading up to this event, we find a simple but elusive answer: Love.
Director
Writer
Grace of My Heart
1996
Whitney: Can I Be Me
2017
Tumbledown
2016
10,000 Saints
2015
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
Krush Groove
1985
The High Note
2020
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
1980
One Chance
2013
Make It Happen
2008
Dinner in America
2020
Adele One Night Only
2021
Coyote Ugly
2000
Song for Marion
2012
Hounddog
2008