CHRONOTOPE is the media production company of writer and director Graham Sack.

Graham Sack
graham@chronotope-films.com

Graham Sack is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and academic. He is the recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Sloan Foundation Fellowship for his episodic television series THE HARVARD COMPUTERS, which tells the story of America’s first female astronomers.

Graham wrote and directed Lincoln in the Bardo, a VR experience for New York Times VR that was shortlisted for an Emmy for Innovation in Interactive Programming and was based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author George Saunders. Graham wrote and directed The Interpretation of Dreams, a four-part episodic series for Samsung’s VR Pilot Season that explores immersive dreamscapes based on Freud’s case studies of the unconscious. Graham co-created “objects in mirror AR closer than they appear,” an immersive theater + augmented reality installation at Tribeca Storyscapes 2018 that transferred to Next Door at New York Theater Workshop. He produced "Hamlet 360: Thy Father's Spirit" with Google, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and WGBH. He is developing an original VR episodic series with Felix and Paul Studios. Graham previously wrote and directed Don’t Look Away an interactive cinematic VR experience about aging, time, and the scarcity of attention and subject:object, a VR experience for New York Theatre Workshop about the private life of objects. He also served as creative director on Power in Hand, a VR documentary for the Rockefeller Foundation and Matter Unlimited. Graham is an alum of New Inc, the New Museum’s art, technology, and design incubator.

In the area of film, his most recent screenplay, Septillion to One, made the Hollywood Blacklist, and sold to Madison Wells Media in one of the most competitive spec sales of the year with Mark Romanek attached to direct. He wrote Operation Ivy League, a true crime story about a drug cartel based in a college fraternity, for Kevin McCormick at Langley Park Entertainment (Gangster Squad, Traffic). His previous screenplays won first place in the Final Draft Big Break Competition and placed in the top 30 for the Nicholl Fellowship.

Graham began his career as a child actor on Broadway, starring in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and in films such as Dunston Checks In and TV shows such as Law & Order and New York Undercover. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of Canada, Screen Actors Guild, and Actors Equity Association.

Graham also holds a BA in Physics from Harvard College, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Digital Humanities from Columbia University, where his research is focused on computational approaches to narrative and storytelling. He is on faculty at Johns Hopkins University in the Film and Media MA Program, where he teaches Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET), and is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Washington University in St. Louis. Graham’s academic research has been published in Complexity and the Human Experience, Digital Humanities for Literary Studies, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Sprache und Datenvarberung, the proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment. He has guest taught and presented research at Harvard, NYU, Northeastern, U Chicago, the Santa Fe Institute, University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Nanyang Technological University, the American Comparative Literature Association, the International Conference on Narrative, Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Computational Models of Narrative, the Stanford Literary Lab, and the American Philosophical Association, amongst other institutions.