Graham Swon

Graham Swon is an American producer and director. He has worked with many independent filmmakers, including Matías Piñeiro, Ted Fendt, Joanna Arnow and Ricky D’Ambrose. In 2016, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” His first film as a writer-director, The World is Full of Secrets, played in BAMCinemaFest in 2019 and was released by Kino Lorber. In 2023 he won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for his production of The Cathedral, and in 2024 was nominated from the Independent Spirit Producers Award. An Evening Song (for three voices), his second film as writer-director, screens on Sunday March 17 at First Look 2024 at the Museum of the Moving Image. (Photo by Vincent Courtois / Belfort Entrevues Film Festival.)

Talks

Unconscious Possibilities: Dream-state Movies

By Graham Swon | March 14, 2024

Unconscious Possibilities: Dream-state Movies

Graham Swon, whose new film, An Evening Song (for three voices), plays First Look in NYC this week, on his history with “cinematic hypnagogia.”

Horrors Far Beyond Mere Violence: On Schalcken the Painter

By Graham Swon | October 29, 2020

Horrors Far Beyond Mere Violence: On Schalcken the Painter

Writer-director Graham Swon shines a light on Leslie Megahey's vastly underseen "indirect horror" movie, a lost BBC gem from 1979.

A Culture of Violence: On Wes Craven’s Scream

By Graham Swon | October 30, 2019

A Culture of Violence: On Wes Craven’s Scream

The World is Full of Secrets writer-director Graham Swon on Wes Craven's genre-defining 1996 horror classic.