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Philip Brubaker is a filmmaker who works in non-fiction, experimental and hybrid genres. When he was sixteen, he created Squish Story (1996) an epic documentary about his friend Nate Weida, who wrote and staged an original high school musical. The film worked in homages to Kubrick, Scorsese and other directors Brubaker admired, which would foretell his future video essay work.

Brubaker's breakthrough documentary on the film festival circuit was The National Hollerin' Contest (2003) about the peculiar North Carolina tradition. Brubaker filmed Brushes With Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness (2009) an advocacy documentary that featured frank interviews with several artists who live with diagnoses like schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline personality disorder. That film won a couple of industry awards and Brubaker received a grant from Eli Lilly for his positive and stigma-busting depiction of people who many have dismissed as 'crazy.'

Brubaker was a member of the first class of students in Duke University's breakthrough graduate program in Experimental and Documentary Arts in 2011-2013. In 2016, Brubaker began a partnership with the streaming service Fandor, which resulted in the publication of more than 100 video essays Brubaker created over a two-year period.

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Filmography

Actor

4

Type

Year

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Poster

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Feature Film2023Self

The Meaning of Life and Stuff Poster

The Meaning of Life and Stuff TV Series2015Guest

The Pink House Feature Film2003Crony

Squish Story Poster

Squish Story Documentary1996Self

Director

12

Type

Year

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Poster

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Feature Film2023

Cinema. Short Film2021

Abandoned Movie Poster

Abandoned Movie Feature Film2019

New York as Nightmare Short Film2017

Abandoned Short Film2015

The Brubakers: Home Movie Stars Documentary2015

Telepresence Poster

Telepresence Short Film2014

Crud Short Film2012

Observing Animals Poster

Observing Animals Documentary2011

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Poster

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Short Film2008

The National Hollerin' Contest Poster

The National Hollerin' Contest Short Film2005

Squish Story Poster

Squish Story Documentary1996

Editor

9

Type

Year

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Poster

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Feature Film2023

Cinema. Short Film2021

Abandoned Movie Poster

Abandoned Movie Feature Film2019

The Brubakers: Home Movie Stars Documentary2015

Telepresence Poster

Telepresence Short Film2014

Observing Animals Poster

Observing Animals Documentary2011

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Poster

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Short Film2008

The National Hollerin' Contest Poster

The National Hollerin' Contest Short Film2005

Squish Story Poster

Squish Story Documentary1996

Producer

6

Type

Year

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Poster

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Feature Film2023

Cinema. Short Film2021

Abandoned Movie Poster

Abandoned Movie Feature Film2019

The Brubakers: Home Movie Stars Documentary2015

Crud Short Film2012

Squish Story Poster

Squish Story Documentary1996

Writer

6

Type

Year

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Poster

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick Feature Film2023

Cinema. Short Film2021

Abandoned Movie Poster

Abandoned Movie Feature Film2019

New York as Nightmare Short Film2017

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Poster

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Short Film2008

Squish Story Poster

Squish Story Documentary1996

Cinematographer

4

Type

Year

Telepresence Poster

Telepresence Short Film2014

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Poster

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness Short Film2008

The National Hollerin' Contest Poster

The National Hollerin' Contest Short Film2005

Squish Story Poster

Squish Story Documentary1996

2nd Unit / Asst Director

1

Fistful of Brains Poster

Fistful of Brains Feature Film2008

Camera and Electrical Department

1

Fistful of Brains Poster

Fistful of Brains Feature Film2008

Sound Department

1

Telepresence Poster

Telepresence Short Film2014

Other Crew

1

The Pink House Feature Film2003

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