PETER DEMING

#1: From the doc "Cinematographer Style"

#3: "From Hell" [2000]

PETER DEMING ASC

Born: 13 December 1957, Beirut, Lebanon.

Education: University of Wisconsin; American Film Institute, Los Angeles [graduated in 1980].

Career: 'I have an older brother and when we were kids he used to make Super 8 movies with my dad's movie camera and I was always the crew… I was the crew and the cast and everything else. So it sort of started there. Then later I went to the University of Wisconsin and for my graduate school I went to the American Film Institute in L.A. Then onto becoming a second assistant, first assistant, camera operator, you know the whole progression of jobs. To me that is still the best way because you learn the working of the whole camera crew. People starting as DP's, often don't understand entirely the jobs of their crew, so if you have done all the jobs it's better. I would say either that or if you are coming up through the lighting department since that is such an intricate part of being a DP. But technically I think there is a lot more to be learned in camera than there is in lighting. My first big break I guess was shooting a movie for Sam Raimi called 'Evil Dead II' which is a pretty big cult movie, even today. And that film, I still get people talking about it when I go in for job meetings. Not knowing it at the time, but it opened certain doors and a level of recognition that I hadn't had before. And then you just sort of build on that.'

Ph commercials dir by The Hughes Brothers ['Funk Ship', 2002; for Nike], Mark Pellington, David Lynch, Shaun Severi, a.o. Directed and ph music videos.

Active member of the ASC since November 1998.

Appeared in the doc's 'Behind the 'Scream'' [2000], 'Production Surveillance: Behind the Scenes of 'I Heart Huckabees'' [2004, Russell Barrett] & 'Cinematographer Style' [2005, Jon Fauer; ph: J. Fauer, Jeff Laszlo, Brian Heller & David Morgan].

Awards: Independent Spirit Award nom [1991] for 'House Party'; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [2001], Independent Spirit Award [2002] & CFCA Award nom [2002] for 'Mulholland Dr.'.

FILMS
1982	The Silence [Michael Toshiyuki Uno] c; short/?m
1983	The Party Animal [David Beaird] c; 3uc; ph: Bryan England
1984	The Oasis/A Savage Hunger [Sparky Greene] c; co-2uc; ph: Alexander Gruszynski
1984	The Carrier [Nathan J. White] c
1986	Evil Dead II/Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn [Sam Raimi] c; night ext ph: Eugene Shlugleit; 2uc: Tim Philo
1986	Hollywood Shuffle [Robert Townsend] c; spph: Paul Slaughter
1988	It Takes Two/My New Car [David Beaird] c
1988	Purple People Eater [Linda Shayne] c
1988	Scarecrows [William Wesley] c; 2uc: Thomas Jewett
1988	From Hollywood to Deadwood [Rex Pickett] c; addph: Lisa Rinzler
1988	Martians Go Home [David Odell] c; addph: Tony Cutrono; spec vfx: Robert Swarthe
1988	Why Me? [Gene Quintano] c; 2uc: Walt Lloyd; aph: Mike Zingale
1989	Darkman [Sam Raimi] c; 2uc; ph: Bill Pope
1989	Men at Work [Emilio Estevez] c; 2uc; ph: Tim Suhrstedt
1989	House Party [Reginald Hudlin] c; 2uc: Randolf Sellars
1989	Book of Love [Robert Shaye] c
1990	Scorchers [David Beaird] c
1990	Drop Dead Fred [Ate de Jong] c; addph: Sandi Sissel & Francis Kenny; 2uc: Gregory Gardiner; spec pfx: Paul Gentry
1991	My Cousin Vinny [Jonathan Lynn] c
1991	Boomerang [Reginald Hudlin] c; co-addph; ph: Woody Omens
1992	[National Lampoon's] Loaded Weapon 1 [Gene Quintano] c
1992	Son-in-Law [Steve Rash] c; 2uc: Paul D. Hughen; vfx ph: Michael Sajbel
1993	Getting Even with Dad [Howard Deutch] c; 2uc; ph: Tim Suhrstedt
1993	Little Big League [Andrew Scheinman] c; co-2uc; ph: Donald E. Thorin
1993	S.F.W. [Jefery Levy] c
1994	Species [Roger Donaldson] p/c; ph Los Angeles; ph: Andrzej Bartkowiak
1995	Lumière et compagnie [seg (54s) 'Premonition Following An Evil Deed' dir by David Lynch] b&w-c; 40 seg; other ph: Sarah Moon, Philippe Poulet, Didier Ferry & Frédéric LeClair
1995	Joe's Apartment [John Payson] c; drama + anim/81m; 2uc: Paul Holahan; stop motion ph: Jamie Jacobson; based on the MTV short film 'Joe's Apartment/Joe's Apt.' (1992)
1995	Lost Highway [David Lynch] p/c; aph: Stan McClain
1996	Scream [Wes Craven] Clairmont-Scope/c; addph; ph: Mark Irwin
1996	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery [Jay Roach] s35/c; addph: Wally Pfister; uncred 2uc: Paul Hughen
1997	Scream 2 [Wes Craven] p/c; + small part
1998	Mystery, Alaska [Jay Roach] s35/c; addph: Jeffrey Jur; 2uc: Roger Vernon
1998	Music of the Heart [Wes Craven] c
1999	Mulholland Dr./Mulholland Drive [David Lynch] c; originally a pilot for ABC-tv
1999	Scream 3 [Wes Craven] p/c; 2uc: Paul Hughen; miniature ph: Christopher Warren; + small part
2000	From Hell [Albert & Allen Hughes] p/c
2001	People I Know [Daniel Algrant] c
2001	Coney Island Baby [Amy Hobby] dv/c
2001	Austin Powers in Goldmember [Jay Roach] s35/c; 2uc: Paul Hughen; aph: David B. Nowell
2002	Twisted/The Blackout Murders [Philip Kaufman] c; 2uc: Lou Weinert
2003	I Heart Huckabees/I Love Huckabees [David O. Russell] p/c
2004	The Jacket [John Maybury] s35/c; aph: Clyde Miller
2004	Rumor Has It... [Rob Reiner] c; replaced ph Edward Lachman who had started filming with dir Ted Griffin
2005	Lucky You [Curtis Hanson] s35/c; uwph: Tom Boyd
2006	Married Life/Marriage [Ira Sachs] c
2006	I Think I Love My Wife [Chris Rock (replaced Charles Stone III)] c; uncred reshoots ph; ph: William Rexer II
2006	Blades of Glory [Josh Gordon & Will Speck] c; uncred reshoots ph; ph: Stefan Czapsky
2007	The Love Guru [Marco Schnabel] s35/c; 2uc: Paul Hughen; hockey unit ph: Stephen Andrich; aph (+ vfx ph): Kurt E. Soderling

"Drag Me to Hell"

2008	Drag Me to Hell [Sam Raimi] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Paul Sanchez; addph: Paul Hughen; main title seq ph: John Frost
2008	Last Night [Massy Tadjedin] p/c
2009	The Cabin in the Woods [Drew Goddard] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Stephen Jackson; uwph: Ian Seabrook; released in 2012
*2009*	Spider-Man 4 [Sam Raimi] announced, but film ('The Amazing Spider-Man') was dir by Marc Webb and ph by John Schwartzman in 2010-11
2010	Scream 4 [Wes Craven] p (+ D-Cinema)/c
2011	Duran Duran: Unstaged [David Lynch] b&w-c; concert film/121m; live streaming film for the American Express sponsored YouTube-series 'Unstaged'; perf on 23 March (Mayan Theater, Los Angeles)
2011	Oz - The Great and Powerful [Sam Raimi] RED Epic-to-35mm scope (+ IMAX-70bu [3-D] & D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/b&w (first 20 min/1.33:1) & c; 2uc: Paul Sanchez
2014	Now You See Me 2/Now You See Me: The Second Act [John M. Chu] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT Plus/p + Sony a7 + GoPro)+RED Epic Dragon-to-digital (scope)/c; 2uc: Peter Robertson; vfx plate unit ph: Hamish Doyne-Ditmas; drone c.op: Jeremy Braben; filmed 2014-15
2017	The New Mutants/X-Men: The New Mutants [Josh Boone] HD (Panavision DXL)-to-D-Cinema/c

TELEVISION
1992	Key West [ep #1 (pilot) dir by David Beaird, ep #8 'Gimme Shelter' dir by Chuck Bowman & #9 'Crossroads' dir by James Frawley] 13-part series, 1993; other ph: Vincent Baldino
1992	On the Air [ep #2 dir by Lesli Linka Glatter (LLG), #3 dir by Jack Fisk (JF), #4 dir by Jonathan Sanger, #5 dir by LLG, #6 dir by Betty Thomas & #7 dir by JF] 7-part (4 unaired) series; other ph (pilot): Ron García
1992	Hotel Room [ep #1 'Tricks' (1969) dir by David Lynch (DL), #2 'Getting Rid of Robert' (1992) dir by James Signorelli & #3 'Blackout' (1936) dir by DL] 3-part miniseries; for HBO-tv
1994	Cosmic Slop [ep 'Space Traders' dir by Reginald Hudlin, 'Tang' dir by Kevin Rodney Sullivan & 'The First Commandment' dir by Warrington Hudlin] 3-part series; for HBO-tv
1994	The Last Days of Russell [Reginald Hudlin] unsold pilot/60m; for ABC-tv
1999	If These Walls Could Talk 2 [seg '2000' dir by Anne Heche] tvm/b&w-c; 3 seg; other ph: Paul Elliott & Robbie Greenberg
2007	Cashmere Mafia [pilot dir by Michael Pressman] 7-part series/HD, 2008; other ph (+ cph pilot): Frank Prinzi
2015	Twin Peaks [David Lynch] series, 1990-91 (30 ep; ABC-tv) & 2017-present; 3rd season/HD (ARRI ALEXA XT M/p, XT Studio/p & AMIRA/p)-to-HD, 2017 (18 ep); for Showtime-tv; filmed 2015-16
2016	The Defiant Ones [ep #1 dir by Allen Hughes] 4-part doc series/HD (Canon EOS C100 & EOS C500), 2017; co-addph; ph: Charles Parish; for HBO-tv

MISCELLANEOUS
1983	Blame It on the Night [Gene Taft] co-c.op addph; ph: Alex Phillips Jr.
1983	Suburbia/Rebel Streets/The Wild Side [Penelope Spheeris] 2nd c.asst; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt
1984	I Do Mind Dying [Patrick Melly; short] co-1st c.asst; ph: Frank Byers
1984	Bad Manners/Growing Pains [Bobby Houston] co-2nd c.asst; ph: Jan de Bont
1987	Stars and Bars [Pat O'Connor] c.op; ph: Jerzy Zielinski
1987	Split Decisions/Kid Gloves [David Drury] 2nd c.op; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt
1988	Dead Solid Perfect [Bobby Roth; tvm] c.op; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt
1989	Cry-Baby [John Waters] co-c.op addph; addph: Bryan Duggan; ph: David Insley
2006	Inland Empire [David Lynch] co-add lighting tech + uncred ph cons; ph: D. Lynch