C.W. Horn

Born Christopher William Horn in Canton, Ohio in 1972, C.W. grew up in North Canton where he spent much of his growing up years drawing and painting. He attended Kent State as an art major but felt he had nothing to learn as an artist, so wrapped up his college years early with an associates degree in art. Around this time he began collaborating with Christopher K. Young on a variety of film projects, including his own directorial debut. This short film, entitled "Season's Ingredients" was created for a sculpture class he took at Kent State. Tired of making sculptures and more interested in filmmaking, he convinced his sculpture professor that a film can be a sculpture. Shortly after college, he moved to New York for the next five years where he completed a number of short films and performed stand-up at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. His third short, "Everything's Alright Forever," was screened with acclaim at a few NYC venues. He worked closely with James A. Lebenthal, a notorious NYC municipal bonds brokerage firm executive, who dabbled in film and even had a short, "T Is for Tumbleweed" (1958) nominated for an Oscar. His work with Lebenthal consisted of production and camera work for Lebenthal's vignettes about life in New York. For a couple years, C.W. operated his film company, Mordant Films, out of a nice, little Park Avenue office, where he developed a few of his projects. One of these projects, "Chance Mania," involved a large cast with multiple stories and mostly improvised dialogue. This particular project became too huge of an undertaking since hundreds of hours of footage had been filmed and thus, was never finished and the footage has since been auctioned off, as royalty-free stock. Another short, "Softest Bullet," was an exercise in how good of a film he thought he could make with as little effort as possible. How little effort was actually made into anything fantastic was what made it a virtually unseen film , but it had it's moments. associate producer on the E! Channel's "Howard Stern" (1994) show in 2000. He has spent the past few years writing and researching for projects for Mordant Films, which he runs out of downtown Goettingen in Germany, where he now lives.