IEC
#1: From interview [2011]
#2: 2011
Born: 1953, New York City, USA, as Robert Bukowski.
Education: The State University of New York, Stony Brook [campus] [Biochemistry]; Graduate Film Program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Career: En route to medical school, Bukowski set his gaze upon more artistic endeavors. He left the United States for extensive travel in Europe and Asia. This adventure led to a job as photographer's assistant in Paris. Soon after, he was enlisted to archive a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage, led by the Dalai Lama, to all the sacred Buddhist sites along the Ganges River. This marked the first time he had a movie camera in his hand.
Ph commercials dir by Michel Gondry [for Air France], Mark Pellington, a.o.
Teaches at the Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore.
Awards: 'Genie' Award nom [2008] for 'The Stone Angel'.
FILMS | |
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1984 |
The Way It Is/Euridice on the Avenues [Eric Mitchell] b&w |
1985 |
Fei fat yi man/Fei fa yi min/Illegal Immigrant [Wanting Zhang & Mabel Cheung] c |
1986 |
Anna [Yurek Bogayevicz] c |
1987 |
Not Just Any Flower [Terry DeRoy Gruber] c; short/10m |
1987 |
Kiss Daddy Good Night [Peter Ily Huemer] 16mm-35bu/c |
1987 |
Lola la loca [Enrique Olivier] c |
1988 |
Slipping Into Darkness [Eleanor Gaver] c; addph; ph: Loren Bivens |
1988 |
Mortal Sins/[Dangerous] [Divine] Obsession/God's Payroll [Yuri Sivo] 16mm/c |
1989 |
Thousand Pieces of Gold/Gold Mountain [Nancy Kelly] c |
1989 |
Men of Respect [William Reilly] c; addph: Dan Shulman; 2uc: Dan Shulman & Joseph Dell'Olio |
1990 |
Dogfight [Nancy Savoca (replaced Michael Dinner)] c |
1990 |
Shakes the Clown [Bobcat Goldthwait] c; cph: Elliot Davis; addph: Ed Pei |
1992 |
Household Saints [Nancy Savoca] c; addph: Michael Spiller, Joe D'Alessandro & Peter Nelson |
1992 |
Golden Gate [John Madden] c |
1993 |
The Silent Alarm [Rob Morrow] c; short/28m; ph Seattle: Frank Prinzi; 2uc: Troy Smith & (Seattle) David Frederick |
1993 |
Holy Matrimony [Leonard Nimoy] c; hph: Frank Holgate |
1994 |
Search and Destroy/The Four Rules [David Salle] c; cph: Michael Spiller; 2uc: Joe DeSalvo |
1994 |
The Tie That Binds [Wesley Strick] c; 2uc: Chris Squires; aph: Michael Benson |
1995 |
Tom and Huck/Tom Sawyer [Peter Hewitt] p/c |
1995 |
'Til There Was You [Scott Winant] c |
1996 |
The Last Time I Committed Suicide [Stephen Kay] b&w-c |
1996 |
Going All the Way [Mark Pellington] c; 2uc: Mike Latino & Eric Schmidt |
1998 |
Arlington Road [Mark Pellington] p/c; 2uc: Scott Smith & Philip C. Pfeiffer; uncred addph 2u: Eric Schmidt; aph Washington D.C.: Brian Heller; miniature ph: John Huneck, Christopher Warren & Gene Warren III |
1998 |
The Minus Man [Hampton Fancher] c; 2uc: Eric Schmidt |
1998 |
Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory [Mark Pellington] c/V; mus doc/45m |
1999 |
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia [Rob Schmidt] c |
2000 |
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 [Joe Berlinger] DigiBeta+35mm-to-35mm/c; New York ph; ph: Nancy Schreiber |
2000 |
Tangled/Conspiracy of Weeds [Jay Lowi] c |
2001 |
The Moment After [Gerald McCullouch] c; short/13m |
2002 |
Easy Six/Easy Sex [Chris Iovenko] c |
2002 |
Saved! [Brian Dannelly] c; 2uc: Todd Elyzen |
2003 |
Boogeyman [Stephen Kay] c; ph add material (+ 2uc): Aaron Morton; green screen ph: John Cavill |
2003 |
The Dying Gaul [Craig Lucas] c; 2uc: Alan Caudillo |
2004 |
The Hawk Is Dying [Julian Goldberger] s16-35bu/c |
2005 |
Lying [M. Blash] v-to-35mm/c |
2005 |
Glass House: The Good Mother [Steve Antin] c/V |
2006 |
The Tripper [David Arquette] c |
2006 |
The Stone Angel [Kari Skogland] s35/c |
2007 |
The Guitar [Amy Redford] c |
2007 |
Take Me Home Tonight/Kids in America [Michael Dowse] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc; ph: Terry Stacey; released 2011 |
2007 |
Fathom [Vladimir Jedlicka] s16/c; short/7m |
2007 |
Phoebe in Wonderland [Daniel Barnz] s35/c |
2007 |
The Pagan Queen/The Crown of Vysehrad [Constantin Werner] c |
2008 |
The Messenger [Oren Moverman] s35/c |
2008 |
Face Value [Amy Redford] in development; status unknown |
2009 |
Locked In [Suri Krishnamma] s35/c; 2uc UK: David Smith |
2010 |
The Ledge [Matthew Chapman] RED/c; 2uc: Yaron Levy; addph: Hilda Mercado |
2010 |
Mighty Fine [Debbie Goodstein] s16-35bu (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2010 |
Ghett'a Life [Chris Browne] RED/c |
2010 |
Rampart [Oren Moverman] HD (ARRI ALEXA)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2011 |
Phoenix [Amy Redford] announced |
2011 |
Blinders [Jacob Brown] c; short/10m |
2011 |
Struck by Lightning [Brian Dannelly] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c; addph: Gavin Kelly |
2011 |
The Iceman [Ariel Vromen] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus + Canon EOS 7D)-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; addph (+ 2uc & c.op 'b' cam): David Stragmeister |
2012 |
Chronicle [Jay Alaimo] pre-production; status unknown |
2012 |
Hi Custodian [David Longstreth] c; mus short/21m; with rock band 'Dirty Projectors' |
2012 |
Very Good Girls [Naomi Foner] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c |
2012 |
Two Night Stand [Max Nichols] c |
2012 |
JacobJosefAimee/Transference [Jacob Brown] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c |
2013 |
Infinitely Polar Bear [Maya Forbes] HD/c |
2013 |
Rosewater [Jon Stewart] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus)/c |
2013 |
99 Homes [Ramin Bahrani] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus)/c; filmed 2013-14 |
2014 |
Time Out of Mind [Oren Moverman] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT Plus/Hawk Scope)/c |
2014 |
CAMP: The Documentary [Justin Haulbrook] c; doc/?m; filmed July |
2015 |
War on Everyone [John Michael McDonagh] c |
2015 |
Imperium [Daniel Ragussis] HD (scope)/c |
TELEVISION | |
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1988 |
Life Under Water [Jay Holman] tvm/60m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse' |
1988 |
Andre's Mother [Deborah Reinisch] tvm/50m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse' |
1989 |
[Vaclav Havel's] Largo Desolato [Jiri Zizka] tvm; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances' |
1990 |
Without Warning: The James Brady Story [Michael Toshiyuki Uno] tvm |
1991 |
Fool's Fire [Julie Taymor] tvm/53m; 2uc: Mark Harrison; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse' |
1992 |
Ethan Frome [John Madden] tvm; addph: Joseph Celeste & Daniel Shulman |
1992 |
Great Performances' 20th Anniversary Special [Ernest Dickerson, Paul Bogart, Twyla Tharp, a.o.] special/90m; ph seg 'Kiss, Kiss Dahlings' dir by Gerald Gutierrez & 'The Last Mile' dir by Paul Bogart; other ph: Ernest Dickerson, Daniel Stoloff, Michael Negrin, a.o.; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances' |
1992 |
Oedipus Rex [Julie Taymor] opera/b&w-c/58m; addph: James McCalmont; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances' |
1996 |
If These Walls Could Talk [seg '1974' dir by Nancy Savoca] tvm; other ph: Ellen Kuras ('1952' dir by Nancy Savoca) & John Stanier ('1996' dir by Cher) |
1997 |
Destination Anywhere/Midnight in Chelsea [Mark Pellington] tvm/45m; 2uc: Jamie Livingston |
2001 |
Wasted [Stephen Kay] tvm |
2004 |
Dark Shadows [P.J. Hogan] unsold pilot; for The WB Network; first screened theatrically in 2005 |
2004 |
Weeds [pilot 'You Can't Miss the Bear' dir by Brian Dannelly] 102-part series, 2005-12; 1st season, 2005 |
2005 |
Weeds [ep #2 'Free Goat' dir by Brian Dannelly, #3 'Good Shit Lollipop' dir by Craig Zisk, #4 'Fashion of the Christ' dir by Burr Steers, #5 'Lude Awakening' dir by Lee Rose, #6 'Dead in the Nethers' dir by Arlene Sanford & #7 'Higher Education' dir by Tucker Gates] 1st season, 2005 (10 ep); other ph: Feliks Parnell (3 ep); see 2004 |
2005 |
The Hunt for the BTK Killer [Stephen Kay] tvm |
2006 |
Help Me Help You [various] 13-part (4 unaired) series; other ph: Michael A. Price |
2011 |
NYC 22/The 2-2/Rookies [pilot dir by James Mangold] 13-part series/HD (ARRI ALEXA), 2012 |
2012 |
Made in Jersey/Baby Big Shot [pilot dir by Mark Waters] 8-part series/HD (Sony F65), 2012; other ph: Daryn Okada |
MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1986 |
Street Trash [Jim Muro] 2nd c.asst; ph: David Sperling |
1987 |
Force of Circumstance [Liza Bear] co-2nd c.op; ph: Zoran Hochstätter |
2001 |
Texas Boogie Woogie [Flavin Judd; short/19m] co-thanks; ph: Richard Rutkowski |