Blind Poets

An intense method actor threatens to destroy his friendships and his own life as he sinks too deep into his role.

  • Kieren Risser Wheeling
    Director
  • Kieren Wheeling
    Writer
  • John Wheeling
    Producer
  • Malo Riou
    Producer
  • Kieren Wheeling
    Producer
  • Alexander Finch
    Key Cast
    "Marlon"
  • Ally Boyle
    Key Cast
    "Sunny"
  • Emiliano Reyna
    Key Cast
    "Tucker"
  • Christian Zambrano
    Key Cast
    "Pony"
  • William Minaberrigarai
    Key Cast
    "Tiger"
  • Malo Riou
    Assistant Director
  • Tian Pei
    Cinematography
  • Melvin Askie
    Composer
  • Kaden Cobbs
    Additional Cast
  • Kai Cobbs
    Additional Cast
  • Elsie Cohen
    Additional Cast
  • Smaran Srikanth
    Additional Cast
  • Kieren Wheeling
    Additional Cast
  • Bobby Han
    Additional Cast
  • Kieren Wheeling
    Editor
  • Malo Riou
    VFX and Color
  • Kieren Wheeling
    VFX and Color
  • Elsie Cohen
    Makeup
  • Patrice Yip
    Makeup
  • Carl Coetzee
    Gaffer
  • Patrice Yip
    Production Design
  • Jeremy Lu
    Sound
  • Kashif Iftikhar
    Sound
  • Todd Lai
    Sound
  • Lillian Pang
    Sound
  • Roy Xu
    Sound
  • Teddy Raven
    Sound
  • Jack Diaz
    Sound
  • Dana Risser-Wheeling
    Script Advisors
  • Jack Diaz
    Script Advisors
  • Min Gu Kim
    Script Advisors
  • Bejunior Fallon
    Contribution
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - New York University
Director Biography - Kieren Risser Wheeling

I was born in York, Pennsylvania, to John Wheeling and Dana Risser-Wheeling. At three, we moved with my newborn sisters to Namibia, where my mom comes from. There, we lived for twelve years until we moved to Oklahoma. Because of the move, I only went to high school for three years, and then I applied to New York University, where I now go to school.

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Director Statement

In the crossfire of my habit of making myself unhappy wherever I am, only to fantasize about where I am not, this film began to develop an identity. I was planning my transfer into the Tisch School of the Arts, and out of the College of Arts and Sciences. I was happy at New York University, but I felt that I wasn't a real film student. I really wanted to be a real filmmaker. I didn't have much to show for it, but I was obsessed with the image and the glamour and the very idea of it. This angry little man in my head would badger me about it, and without his knowledge, I came up with a film about him. But I was only allowed to make a film that was five minutes long. A challenge, I thought. I could do it. But as I tortured myself with pretentious dialogue, I wondered if the angry man was really the voice I should be listening to. So, on a whim, I cancelled my plan to transfer. I called my parents, and told them I could make a film without being a real film student. So I did, and I made it thirteen minutes and sixteen seconds long.