Bradley Rust Gray (born 1971) is an American independent filmmaker known for The Exploding Girl and Jack & Diane. He made the film Salt in 2003. He is married to filmmaker So Yong Kim, with whom he has frequently collaborated on projects, including being screenwriter for Lovesong and In Between Days. He has served as editor for many of his and his spouse's works.
The Exploding Girl premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009 and was released theatrically in the United States on March 12, 2010.
Filmmaking efforts
Gray and Kim are close collaborators — they produce each other's work and often write and edit together — and in interviews tend to use the first-person plural in discussing their movies.1
Gray began in experimental film and moved toward narrative filmmaking while studying at the British Film Institute in London.1
Gray has told interviewers that the strongest part of their collaboration is in the editing.2 He says he was influenced by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, especially his folk tales and magical realisms.3
Gray and Kim have titled several of their movies about songs, and Gray notes that singer John Mellencamp put out a statement relating to the title of the film Jack & Diane.3 Gray says "I didn't mean to cause him any offense."3
Gray directed a segment for the 2019 anthology film 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing.
Early life
Gray was born in Kettering, Ohio, and educated at the University of Southern California.
Personal life
Gray and Kim met at the Art Institute of Chicago.14 They have two children.5
References
References
- Lim, Dennis (15 April 2009). "Bradley Rust Gray and So Yong Kim, Joined in Work and Marriage, With 2 New Movies - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
- Macaulay, Scott. "5 Questions for Lovesong Writer/Director So Yong Kim | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
- Cruz, Niki. "Five Questions with Jack & Diane Director Bradley Rust Gray | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
- "'The Next Director: So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray' at BAMcinématek". Archived from the original on March 4, 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
- Pulver, Andrew (11 February 2013). "For Ellen: director So Yong Kim on how she snared her star Paul Dano". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2016.