JOE DeSALVO

Born: ?, as Joseph J. DeSalvo.

Education: School of Visual Arts, New York.

Career: Ph commercials dir by David Shane, Bryan Buckley, Mat Kaufman [for Citibank], a.o. Ph music videos dir by Dave Myers, Spike Jonze, Ted Demme, Alex Winter, etc.

Website: Joe DeSalvo

Director Alex Winter on 'Fever': 'At this early stage I began working with cinematographer Joe DeSalvo, creating a very specific visual landscape. I brought Joe in at this time because I wanted to create a tight link between myself and the director of photography, something like the kind of collaboration between Carl Dreyer and Rudolph Maté on 'Vampyr' or Jean Cocteau and Nicolas Hayer on 'Orphée'. Joe and I have worked together for many years, shooting commercials and music videos all over the world, and have amassed a notebook full of ideas to put to use on a film of this kind. Joe is an old-school film purist, a rare breed these days, who's more likely to reference 'The Night of the Hunter' than 'Armageddon'. He also has an artistic awareness as complete as his technical knowledge. Given the very 'painterly' aspects of this film, he was the perfect man for the job.'

FILMS & TELEVISION

1988	That Burning Question [Alan Taylor] 16mm/b&w; short/30m; prod NYU
1988	Techniques mixtes/Mixed Techniques, a Portrait of Kenny Scharf, Painter [Frédéric Magnus] 16mm/c; doc/10m
1989	Clouds/Nuages [Jérôme Bompard] 16mm/c; short/14m
1989	Chains [Will Alovis] c; short/20m; 2uc: Michael Bonvillain, Erik Brondum & DeAnthony Darnell
1990	Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole [Amos Poe] b&w-c
1990	Johnny Suede [Tom DiCillo] b&w-c
1991	Joey Breaker/Agent Breaker [Steven Starr] c
1992	What Happened Was... [Tom Noonan] c
1993	Drop Squad [D. Clark Johnson] c; cph: Ken Kelsch
1994	The Wife [Tom Noonan] c
1994	Search and Destroy/The Four Rules [David Salle] c; 2uc; ph: Bobby Bukowski & Michael Spiller
1994	Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West [Mirra Bank] tv-docudrama/87m/16mm; cph: Jamie Silverstein (New York)
1994	$1.99 p/Minute [Gabriella Spierer] b&w; short/14m
1994	Shao Nu xiao yu/Siao Yu [Sylvia Chang] c
1995	Pocahontas: The Musical Tradition Continues [John Jopson] mus tv-special/30m; cph: Jacek Laskus & Michel Taburiau
1995	Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King [Erinn Williams] mus tv-special/75m; cph: Ericson Core, Scott Edelstein, Jules Labarthe, Eric Schmidt, a.o.
1995	All Over Me [Alex Sichel] c
1996	Fall [Eric Schaeffer] c
1997	Above Freezing [Frank Todaro] c
1998	Fever [Alex Winter] c
1998	Hidden Medicine [Robby Romero] c; short/?m
2001	Hudson's Way [Barry Levinson] tv-pilot
2002	Nine Good Teeth [Alex Halpern] b&w-c; doc/90m; cph: A. Halpern, Alex Rappoport, Matthew Williams, a.o.; also aired as ep of BBC-tv series 'Storyville'
2005	Little Pony [Filip Engström] HD (Sony)/b&w; short/4m; ep series 'Sony Dreams'
2006	The Alphabet Killer [Rob Schmidt] c
2010	Leaving the Island [Lance Ferguson] c/V; exp short/3m33s
2010	The Story Beyond the Still [- An HD Video Contest by Canon] [seg (Canon EOS 5D/11m) 'Chapter 8: Corridors' dir by Vincent Laforet] c; 8 chapters/38m; other ph: Tony Leech, Ryan Booth, Andrew Brinkhaus, a.o.

MISCELLANEOUS

1986	Street Trash [J. Michael Muro] co-gaffer; ph: David Sperling
1988	True Love [Nancy Savoca] steadicam op; ph: Lisa Rinzler
1988	Dead Silence [Anthony Alosi; short] steadicam op; ph: Mark Shprintz
1989	The Houseguest [Franz Harland; short] co-steadicam op; ph: Igor Sunara
1989	Robot in the Family [Mark Richardson & Jack Shaoul] steadicam op; ph: Blain Brown & Joe Dell'Olio
1989	Suffering Bastards/Liars Club [Bernard McWilliams] co-steadicam op; ph: Neil Hodges
1990	The Boy Who Cried Bitch [Juan Campanella] co-steadicam op; ph: Daniel Shulman
1991	Strictly Business [Kevin Hooks & (uncred) Rolando Hudson] co-steadicam op; ph: Zoltán David
1991	The 1991 Miss America Pageant [Tim Kiley; live telecast] steadicam op; ph: John Pinto, a.o.