Close Shave
Directed by John D. Freyer

CLOSE SHAVE - 2018
Close Shave unpacks the intimacy and vulnerability of a straight blade barber shop shave and the complicated relationships of service, friendship and privilege. Set in Richmond, Virginia, Close Shave re-enacts a specific turning point in the filmmaker's life, which was enabled and supported by an unlikely friendship forged in a time of chaos. Close Shave was commissioned by the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.
    UK Premier June 6th 2018 - Shorts On Tap - London
Close Shave
2018 
CREW:
Written and Directed by John Freyer
Co-Created by John Freyer and Tim Neville
Cinematographer - Tyler Kirby 
Production coordinator - Janelle Proulx 
1st Assistant Camera - Janelle Proulx 
Production Assistant - Amelia Kirby 
Location Sound Recordist - Dana Ollestad 
Key Grip - Dana Ollestad 
Editor and Colorist - Tyler Kirby 
Soundmix - Andrew Uvarov - Red Amp Audio
Produced in association with Departure Point Film

Director - John D. Freyer
John Freyer is an artist, author and educator based in Richmond Virginia. His projects include All My Life for Sale, Big Boy, Live IKEA, Free Ice Water, Free Hot Coffee and Free Hot Supper. When he’s not buying, selling or giving his work away, Freyer is an Associate Professor of Cross Disciplinary Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Freyer’s practice engages accidental audiences in galleries, museums, and public spaces. He explores the role of everyday, personal objects in our lives – as commodities, fetishes, and totems and investigates how the circulation of objects and stories enrich social ties between individuals and groups.
Contact 
John D. Freyer
Associate Professor
Cross Disciplinary Media @ VCUarts
jdfreyer [at] vcu.edu

319-341-0831

Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
325 N Harrison St.
Richmond, VA 2328
John Freyer earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and M.A. & M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The Sunday London Times, Artforum, Print Magazine and NBC’s The Today Show. Freyer is a Fulbright Scholar, a Macdowell Colony Fellow and was an Artist in Residence at Light Work and the Fannon Center, Doha, Qatar. Freyer has brought his social practice projects – Free Ice Water, Free Hot Coffee and Free Hot Supper to the TEDx stage, has exhibited at Mixed Greens Gallery in New York, the Liverpool Biennial Fringe in Liverpool, UK and is currently a Tate Exchange Associate at the Tate Modern in London.