• a film by
    DANIEL GAMBURG
    BENJAMIN GOLDMAN

    animation
    BENJAMIN GOLDMAN

    director of photography
    DANIEL GAMBURG

    camera operator
    HARRY BUERKLE

    camera assistant
    JONATHAN LOUIS LEWIS

    sound design & mix
    GUS KOVEN

    producer, The New Yorker
    JORDIN ROCCHI

    supervising producer, The New Yorker
    SARA JOE WOLANSKY

    executive producer, The New Yorker
    SOO-JEONG KANG

Like the holidays themselves, Daniel Gamburg and Benjamin Goldman’s documentary short “Eight Nights” mixes nostalgia, family, shame, guilt, and humor into a seriously potent cocktail. In a hybrid of animation, interview, and archival footage reminiscent of Michel Gondry...

— Tana Wojczuk, The New Yorker.