A Gray State

A Gray State is a 2017 documentary film directed by Erik Nelson and executive produced by Werner Herzog, first broadcast on the A&E Network. It explores the death by suicide of aspiring filmmaker David Crowley and the murders of his wife and child in 2014. The film tells the story of Crowley's military service in the Middle East, his efforts to fund and make a film, and explores the circumstances surrounding the deaths. Producer Herzog and director Nelson had previously worked together on 2005's Grizzly Man, which Nelson produced, and Herzog directed.[1][2]

A Gray State
Film poster
Directed byErik Nelson
Release date
  • April 2017 (2017-04) (Tribeca)
Running time
1 hr, 32 min

Crowley had been working on a feature film he called Gray State.[3]

References
  1. "A Gray State: An A&E IndieFilms Presentation". Arts & Entertainment TV. Retrieved 2020-03-29. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film’s crowdfunded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists as well as members of the nascent alt-right.
  2. Ben Kenigsberg (2017-11-02). "Review: 'A Gray State,' Behind a Filmmaker's Madness". The New York Times. p. C10. Retrieved 2020-03-29. Perhaps because Mr. Crowley was drawn to the paranoid fringe (he is shown meeting and watching Alex Jones), the deaths became a cause for conspiracy theorists.
  3. Wilkinson, Alec (April 3, 2017). "American Chronicles: Death of a Dystopian". The New Yorker. Alt-right conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley. The truth is far stranger.


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