BROTHER VERSES BROTHER

A Live Cinema Musical Novella from 4-Time Sundance Filmmaker Ari Gold

91 Minutes • Color • 2025

Inspired by Francis Coppola's concept of Live Cinema, Brother Verses Brother is a radically personal musical odyssey. Combative twin musicians hunt the streets of San Francisco for their dying poet father, in an improvisation performed by the director’s own family, and filmed in a single continuous shot.

Brother Verses Brother is a story about fathers and sons, as well as being a rare vision of American culture, taking the audience on a safari through the secret haunts of Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg - and co-starring the last Beat poet on earth, 99-year-old Herbert Gold, in a role performed only weeks before his death.

It features original music by the Brothers Gold (Ethan Gold & Ari Gold), along with local jazz legend Lara Louise, Brian Bell (from the rock band Weezer), & San Francisco’s Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin.

Made in the tradition of intimate tales like Once and Before Sunrise, Brother Verses Brother is a funny and moving tale about the power of music, the bonds of brotherhood, and the life of a city - experienced by the viewer in real-time.

Sound will be mixed in January 2025 at American Zoetrope.

Music is being mixed in Austin Texas by Tony Hoffer (Air, Beck, Belle & Sebastian).

A companion book, Father Verses Sons, has just been released by Rare Bird Lit, and was selected for Scribner’s Best American Poetry.

A companion film, Helicopter, which features Alejandro Jodorowsky and expands on Ari’s student-Oscar winning short film about his mother’s death, will be completed in 2025.

Contact Grack Films for screener password.