Robin Beeck

Grandpa's in the Tuff Shed

Robin Beeck

It adroitly tells the story of a "counter culture" young man who when his grandfather dies, packs the body in dry ice, and stores him in a Tuff Shed, waiting for the time when advances in modern medicine can bring him back to life. I am not making this up. Then our young men gets deported back to Norway on unrelated charges. Then, quite a while later, people look up and take notice ... "Hey ... there appears to be a frozen dead guy in that shed over there."

Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed

Robin Beeck

Award winning documentary filmmakers, Robin, Kathy and Shelly Beeck, with the help of filmmaker Michael Moore, have spent the last five years filming a 60-minute feature-length documentary on Bredo Morstoel, a Norweigan who was frozen by his grandson in 1983. Since then, the world famous...well...stiff has been lying under 800 pounds of dry ice in a TUFF SHED behind his grandsons' castle-like house in the 9000-ft Colorado ski town of Nederland. The grandson, Trygve Bauge, has long since been deported back to Norway, but Grandpa Bredo has remained, unwittingly becoming a worldwide symbol of the legal rights of the temporarily dead....

A Farewell to Arms: The Don Becker Story

Robin Beeck

Don Becker

'Death is easy, comedy is hard.' Sir Laurence Olivier Why would a bright, young rising-star comedian suddenly and deliberately amputate his own arms" Acclaimed absurdist playwright, Don Becker analyzes his own 1986 life-changing tragedy for the first time in 'A Farewell to Arms: the Don Becker Story' a film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Beeck.