CCi Artists

ARNOLD BARKUS

Filmmaker, screenwriter, and theater director Arnold Barkus has directed two feature films and numerous theater pieces. Tempête Dans Un Verre d’Eau, the Canal Plus financed comedy with Jackie Berroyer and Maria Medeiros was theatrically released in France, and in festivals worldwide in 1997-8. The award winning feature Wadeck’s Mother’s Friend’s Son was brought to the attention of a wider audience by Jacques Perrin’s series for French television. The DeMarco Foundation opened the door for his first theater work, for which, he directed an original piece at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He directed two Theater Ten Thousand productions, and numerous projects for Composers Collaborative including Virgil, Everbest, based on the musical portraits of Virgil Thomson, and The Gold Standard, written by Ed Schmidt, as well directing the on-going monthly Serial Underground, and 3 years of CCI’s Non-Sequitur festival at New York’s Flea Theater and Bowery Poetry Club. As a cultural curator, Barkus is bringing performers to the prestigious “Environmental Grantmakers Association” Fall Retreat for the second time. Programs he curated for EGA included an evening of spoken word with Edwin Torres, Cecilia Vicuna and Sekou Sundiata, and concerts by Marc Ribot and Pete Seeger.

Barkus has acted in some films other than his own, by directors in France and America such as Jonathan Nossiter, Raphael Nadjari, Pascale Breton, and Luc Moulet.

His recent screenplays are Ephemeral Patterns, for director Ergin Cavusoglu, commissioned by the U.K. Film Council; and End of A Primitive, based on a Chester Himes novel, for director William Jennings. He has collaborated with Konstantin Bojanov on numerous scripts including his upcoming French/Bulgarian produced feature, Avé; as well as Red Hook, based on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment; and Western, for the renown artist Paul McCarthy.

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