All the Words on the Page
When the script is changed on Arlo, a dyslexic actor, he struggles to navigate his conservatory audition. Mixing the Greek myth of Chiron and the textures of off-off-Broadway theater, All the Words on the Page is an anxious tale about wrestling with an invisible disability.
SPECS 7 MIN | USA | 2024 | ENGLISH | DRAMA | B & W | DCP | KODAK 16mm 722 and KODAK 16mm 7266 TRI-X-RSVL
THEMES Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Education, New York City Theater
DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY Hunter Gause
STARRING Maximilian Isaacs (The Sweet East) and Paul Lazar (The Silence of the Lambs, Snowpiercer, The Host)
PRODUCED BY Hunter Gause and Hope Lennox
Official Selection, World Premiere, 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest, Best U.S. Short Nomination
Official Selection, 2024 Davey Fest
Official Selection, 2024 Adult Film presents Film + Theatre Festival
Official Selection, 2024 The Downtown Festival at The Roxy Cinema New York
Official Selection, Canadian Premiere, 2025 Pendance Film Festival
Official Selection, 2025 Fargo Film Festival
The genesis of this film began with a play I wrote about my dyslexia diagnosis and was inspired by a viewing of Claude Chabrol’s film La Cérémonie. I am dyslexic, and I wanted to document the confusion and anxiety of my learning disability. Since no two cases of dyslexia are identical, the script is also informed by research that I conducted with the help of Yale Online and Mary B. Stowe of William and Mary College. Dyslexia is not visible and is not a topic often depicted in cinema. I worked hard to explain dyslexia and hope to educate the audience.
- Hunter Gause, Writer+ Director
Full Credits
A short film by Hunter Gause | Starring Maximilian Isaacs, Paul Lazar, Jeffrey Brabant & Mona Moriya | Editors Hunter Gause & Julian C. Santos | Director of Photography Nicolas Tepper | Co-Producer Hope Lennox | Casting Violette Trotter | Sound Jesse Malings | Production Design Hope Lennox | Color Nicolas Tepper | Sound Mix Eric Sluyter | Gaffer Thomas Hutteau | Graphics Hope Lennox | 1st AC Dylan Rizzo | 2nd AC Marissa Ogé-Graville | Production Coordinator & Script Supervisor Barbara Toy | Production Assistant Grace Ward | An Occipital Filmworks Picture
Thank you!
Daniel Hess, Brian Trybus, Mark Greer, Meghan Finn, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, the entire staff of The Tank, Sarah Rosenthall, Robert Schenkkan, Atlantic Theater Company, Sally Shaywitz, MD, Bennett Shaywitz, MD, Tad D'Agostino, Anna Strout, Dave and Leslie Lennox, Mike Farry, Spalding Gray, Michael DelaFlor, Rachel Walden, Simone Films, A.R.T./New York, Rachel Bass, Sami Pyne, Ben McHugh, Jarred Greenberg, Hannah Applebaum, Allison Morris. Mom and Dad, Mary Stowe M. Ed.
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CONTACT
LAWYER
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