Zachary Oberzan is a filmmaker, theater director, actor, and singer/songwriter known for his experimental work involving video.

An original member of the New York City-based theater collective Nature Theater of Oklahoma, he collaborated in the creation and performance of the plays No Dice (Obie Award), Poetics: a ballet brut, and the one-man show Rambo Solo '. In 2007 he created a "one-man cinematic war," Flooding with Love for The Kid, a feature film that adapted David Morrell

David Morrell

David Morrell is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages...

's 1972 novel First Blood, in which Oberzan, as a metaphor for Rambo

Rambo

Rambo is an action film series based on the David Morrell novel First Blood and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former Green Beret who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand to hand combat and guerrilla warfare...

's own singular struggle, shot, designed, edited, and played all 26 characters by himself in his 220 square feet (20.4 m²) Manhattan studio apartment.

In 2010, Oberzan's solo theater/film piece Your brother. Remember? premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. An examination of family deterioration and redemption, it employs the life of Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg , professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist and actor, best known for his martial arts action films, the most successful of which include Bloodsport , Kickboxer , Double Impact , Universal Soldier , Hard Target , Timecop ,...

as a vehicle to tell its bittersweet story.