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Photo by Richard Kern |
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TEODORO MANIACI |
Born: 1961, New York, USA.
Education: Tufts University, Medford/Somerville [near Boston]; Graduate Film School of New York University [graduated in 1990].
Career: Ph student shorts, music videos [a: Melissa Etheridge, Ton Toni Tony, Monee Love, Squeeze, Shaquille O'Neal, a.o.], commercials [for the Nintendo game Maximum Carnage, a.o.], items for CD-ROMs and artist visual installations.
One of the founders and member of the Board of Directors of the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Awards: As doph: AMPAS Cinematography Award [?] for 'The Savage Sleep'; Hamptons IFF Cinematography Award [2002] for 'Searching for Paradise'.
As dir: San Francisco Lesbian & Gay FF 'Audience Award' [1993; shared] for 'One Nation Under God'.
Website: Teodoro Maniaci
Teodoro Maniaci: 'If you look at the films I've shot you'd be hard-pressed to say there's a single person behind them. They're all really different looking, different styles of filmmaking. Lodge Kerrigan's 'Claire Dolan', for instance, is an incredibly formal art film with very precise, almost geometric sort of chrome-and-glass photography. It's very voyeuristic. Whereas in 'The Opportunists' the camera is invisible. The shots are carefully chosen, but the film is not about the camerawork. It doesn't call attention to itself. My style is highly adaptive. I try to create a look that's appropriate for each film. It's not about me attaching myself [to a project] and it becoming about me. It's about me becoming part of it – trying to figure out what that project wants to be. Lodge Kerrigan's 'Clean, Shaven', for instance, was very intense and gritty – the polar opposite of 'Claire Dolan'. Michael Benson's 'Predictions of Fire', on the other hand, is a highly stylized propaganda film for a political art movement, and Bette Gordon's 'Luminous Motion' is a strange psychodrama with surreal overtones.' Asked if there's a particular film genre he hasn't yet explored that would intrigue him, Maniaci answers, 'I'd love to do a sci-fi rocker film. We need a good sci-fi rocker movie!' [From 'Filmmaker Magazine', Spring 2000.]
FILMS |
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1990 |
Clean, Shaven [Lodge Kerrigan] 16mm/c; filmed August 1990 (19 days) & November 1991 (10 days) |
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1991 |
The Savage Sleep [Osceola Refetoff (?)] ? |
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1993 |
Smoke [Mark D'Auria] 16mm/b&w |
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1993 |
One Nation Under God [Teodoro Maniaci & Francine Rzeznik] v-to-16mm/b&w-c; doc/83m; on PBS-tv as ep of 'P.O.V.' |
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199? |
Picture Book [David LaChapelle] ?; short/?m |
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1995 |
Tarantella [Helen De Michiel] 16mm-35bu/c |
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1995 |
Prerokbe Ognja/Predictions of Fire/Prophecy of Fire [Michael Benson] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/87m |
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1995 |
Bliss Jag [Jim Anderson] multimedia installation; ph 6 music videos |
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1996 |
Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots [Leslie McCleave] c; short/11m; addph; ph: Ed Talavera |
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1997 |
Claire Dolan [Lodge Kerrigan] c |
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1997 |
Luminous Motion [Bette Gordon] c |
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1998 |
The Robot Club [Tamara Jenkins] vg |
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1998 |
The Opportunists [Myles Connell] c |
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1999 |
The Tao of Steve [Jenniphr Goodman] c |
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1999 |
Searching for Paradise [Myra Paci] c |
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2000 |
The Business of Strangers [Patrick Stettner] c |
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2001 |
Life on a String [Steven Lippman] mdv+s8-to-35mm/b&w-c; exp short/10m |
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2002 |
Party Monster [Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato] mdv-to-35mm/c |
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2002 |
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America [Mei-Juin Chen & Martha Burr] dv/c; doc/56m; addph: M-J. Chen, Osceola Refetoff & Bob Trinder; on PBS-tv as ep of 'Independent Lens'-series |
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2003 |
Reality [Steven Lippman] s8+s16-to-35mm/c; mus short/29m |
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2003 |
Inside Deep Throat [Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato] b&w-c; doc/87m; cph: David Kempner; addph: Harry Frith & Allan Palmer; filmed May 2003-April 2004 |
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2005 |
.45 [Gary Lennon] c; 2uc: Alex Dacev; originally scheduled to start filming in October 2003 |
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2005 |
Road [Leslie McCleave] c; addph; ph: Antoine Vivas Denisov |
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2005 |
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook [Steven Lippman] HD/c/V; mus short/23m |
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With dir John Jeffcoat [m] & prod Tom Gorai [r] - "Outsourced" |
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2006 |
Outsourced [John Jeffcoat] c |
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2006 |
The Perfect Holiday [Lance Rivera] c; 2uc: David Daniel |
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2006 |
Savage Grace [Tom Kalin] c; New York ph; ph: Juan Miguel Azpiroz |
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2009 |
Step Up 3D [Jon M. Chu] HD (Sony F23)-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema [3-D version])/c; addph; ph: Ken Seng |
TELEVISION |
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1992 |
Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest [David Van Taylor] doc/60m; b&w concert ph; ph: Julie Gustafson & Darrell Menning; ep PBS-tv series 'P.O.V.' |
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1996 |
It Just Takes One [Ellen Weissbrod] doc/60m; co-addph; ph: Jim Fealy |
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1997 |
Reno Finds Her Mom [Lydia Dean Pilcher] comedy special/89m; co-addph; ph: Trish Govoni |
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1998 |
Wildflowers [Melissa Painter] tvm; ph 'Blues Traveler Concert'; ph: Paul G. Ryan; also released theatrically |
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199? |
Feet of Clay [?] series of short stories; for BBC-tv |
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2000 |
The 100 Greatest Dance Songs [exec prod: Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey] 5-part mus special; for VH1-tv |
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2000 |
The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman [Arthur Ginsberg] doc/57m; cph: Mead Hunt; addph: Andrew Philip; ep HBO-tv series 'America Undercover' (2001) |
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2000 |
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen [: The William Haines Story] [: The Life of William Haines] [Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato] doc/44m/v |
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2001 |
Monica in Black and White [Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato] doc/b&w-c/96m/dv; ep HBO-tv series 'America Undercover' (2002) |
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2002 |
Dark Roots [: The Unauthorized Anna Nicole] [: The Anna Nicole Story] [Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato & Gabriel Rotello] doc/89m & 60m/dv; addph: Kurt Lang, Philip Tarley, a.o. |
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2002 |
A Trip to the Blogosphere [prod: Billy Shebar] doc/?m; ep Thirteen/WNET-tv newsmagazine 'Media Matters' (2003) |
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2004 |
Sex and the City: A Farewell [Rachel McDonald Salazar] 2-part special |
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2004 |
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live [Kenneth Bowser] special/120m (incl commercials); addph: Peter Pearce, Sam Levy, a.o.; for NBC-tv |
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2004 |
Deadwood [ep #13 'A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 1' dir by Edward Bianchi] 36-part series, 2004-06; 2nd season, 2005; other ph: Joseph Gallagher & James Glennon |
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2005 |
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found [Kenneth Bowser] special/120m (incl commercials); for NBC-tv |
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2006 |
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation [Kenneth Bowser] special/120m (incl commercials)/HD; for NBC-tv |
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2007 |
Lorna Simpson [Steven Lippman] doc/27m; ep series 'Art in Progress' |
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2007 |
Brotherhood [10 ep dir by various] 29-part series, 2006-08; 2nd season (10 ep) |
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2008 |
The Two Mr. Kissels [Edward Bianchi] tvm |
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2008 |
Brotherhood [8 ep dir by various] 3rd season (8 ep); see 2007 |
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2009 |
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again [Kenneth Bowser] special/85m; for NBC-tv (2010) |
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2010 |
Making Mildred Pierce [Rachel Salazar] doc/29m/HD; loc ph; interviews ph: Joe Arcidiacono & Max Gutierrez; for HBO-tv (2011) |
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2010 |
Blue Bloods [ep #3 'Privilege' dir by Stephen Gyllenhaal & #5 'What You See' dir by Félix Alcalá] series, 2010-present; 1st season/RED, 2010-11; aph: Brian Heller; other ph: Tim Ives (pilot), David Insley & Craig DiBona |
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2010 |
Wishful Drinking [Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato] doc/76m; for HBO-tv |
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2010 |
Saturday Night Live Backstage [Kenneth Bowser] special/120m (incl commercials); for NBC-tv (2011) |
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2011 |
Person of Interest [pilot dir by David Semel + 21 ep dir by various] series/HD (ARRI ALEXA + Canon EOS 7D + Sony PMW-EX1), 2011-present; 1st season (23 ep), 2011-12; other ph: Richard Rutkowski (ep #3) |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1987 |
Not Just Any Flower [Terry DeRoy Gruber; short] co-2nd electrician; ph: Bobby Bukowski |
FILMS AS DIRECTOR |
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199? |
Sanctuary [dir; post-prod superv by Martin Scorsese] ph: ? |
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1993 |
One Nation Under God [co-d; + ph] see Films |