Tema: Brother Verses Brother (Ari Gold, 2025)

Francis Ford Coppola presents.



A Live Cinema Musical Novella.


The radically personal one-shot musical odyssey of combative twin musicians hunting the streets of San Francisco for their dying poet father.




Musical rodado en una sola toma. Producido e inspirado por Francis Ford Coppola. La mezcla de sonido de film se ha llevado a cabo en American Zoetrope.

Se estrenó ayer en el festival SXSW.

Inspired by Coppola’s concept of Live Cinema, Gold embarked on a radically personal musical odyssey alongside real-life twin, Ethan Gold. As their characters search for their father across the great and troubled city of San Francisco, they paint a vision of Bohemian culture, blending cinema with reality to create a dream of the comedy and pathos of modern America. The actors around them, all playing fictionalized versions of themselves, engage in improv as the narrative feature follows combative and co-dependent twin musicians as they hunt for their dying poet father in and around San Francisco.


When I read Francis Ford Coppola’s book Live Cinema and Its Techniques, one paragraph struck me like a thunderbolt: ‘I have always loved when art works are what they are about. To me that is the holy grail of art, but perhaps I’ve only touched on it briefly.’ I took Coppola’s book as a call to arms, and set out to make a ‘live cinema’ musical film in the North Beach neighborhood we know and love, and using his principles – with my brother and father and friends playing versions of ourselves, and where the invented story and our real lives blur,” Ari Gold said. “We all ‘play ourselves,’ even in real life – this was an opportunity to find the truth hiding in that game.”