IEC
#1: From interview [by Craft Truck]
Born: c. 1964, as William Rexer II, son of theater prod Robert W. Rexer [1922-2009] and Francine Rexer-Barrera, owner of the Rexer-Parkes clothing stores.
Education: Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA [graduated in 1986].
Career: Ph commercials dir by Simon Blake [for AT&T, United Airlines, etc.], Nicholas Barker [for Kmart, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, travelchannel.de, etc.], Buddy Cone, a.o.
Ph music videos dir by Thom Zimny ['Pay Me My Money Down'; a: Bruce Springsteen], a.o.
Married [2001-] to film prod Dallas Jessica Brennan.
FILMS | |
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1989 |
Mr. Hoover and I [Emile de Antonio] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/90m; cph: Matt Mindlin & Morgan Wesson |
1992 |
When God Doesn't Listen [Ana Coyne Alonso] ?; doc/10m |
1993 |
The Trials of Darryl Hunt [Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg] 8mm+16mm+dv-to-35mm/c; doc/118m; 16mm ph; addph (dv): John Foster, Alan Jacobsen & Shannon Kennedy; + co-prod; filmed 1993-2004; released in 2006 |
1993 |
Juliette of the Herbs [Tish Streeten] 16mm/c; doc/75m; cph: Brian Danitz; addph: Michael Hanitchak & T. Streeten; + co-sound (1992); filmed 1991-95; released in 1998 |
1993 |
Side by Side: Women Against AIDS in Zimbabwe [Peter Davis] c; doc/47m |
1995 |
A, B, C... Manhattan [Amir Naderi] c; + co-prod |
1995 |
Belly Talkers [Sandra Luckow] c; doc/57m |
1995 |
In My Corner [Ricki Stern] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/59m; + co-prod; filmed 1995-97 |
1995 |
White Dresses/Vestidos blancos [Ana Coyne Alonso] b&w; doc/33m; addph: A. Coyne Alonso & Raphael Ruiz |
1996 |
Unmade Beds [Nicholas Barker] c; doc/97m |
1998 |
Things We Do [Chris Eyre] c; music video/5m; cph: Cindy Stillwell |
1999 |
Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story/Mardy Murie: Arctic Dance [Bonnie Kreps] b&w-c; doc/75m; cph: Sandy Ostertag |
1999 |
Il mio viaggio in Italia/My Voyage to Italy [Martin Scorsese] b&w-c; doc/246m; cph: Phil Abraham |
1999 |
Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton/Listening with the Eyes [Julian Benedikt] s16-35bu/c; doc/81m; cph: Matthew Clark |
1999 |
Famous/Lisa Picard Is Famous [Griffin Dunne] dv+16mm+s16+35mm-to-35mm/c; mockumentary/87m |
2000 |
David Blaine: Fearless [Roger Goodman] c/V; cph: Jacob Septimus; comp of David Blaine tv-specials 'Magic Man' (see Television 1998), 'Frozen in Time' (see Television 2000) & 'Street Magic' |
2001 |
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today [Katy Chevigny] c; doc/57m; addph; ph: Kirsten Johnson |
2001 |
Love Thy Brother [Ralph Macchio] c; short/10m |
2001 |
Dreams [seg 'Minotaur' dir by Simon Blake] HD (Sony)/c; 8 seg; prod by agency Young & Rubicam to get commercial directors interested in shooting HD |
2001 |
Today I Found Out [Griffin Dunne] c; short/9m; prod for Scenarios USA |
2002 |
Conjuring Women [Buzz Hays] doc project started raising funds in 1999; status unknown |
2002 |
Not On My Watch [Robert Gillanze] c |
2003 |
Book of Love/Nights in Phnom Penh [Alan Brown] s16/c |
2003 |
With All Deliberate Speed [- A Look at the Landmark Brown vs. The Board of Education] [Peter Gilbert] HD/b&w (archive) + c; doc/110m; cph: Richard Oakes, P. Gilbert & Joe Arcidiacono |
2003 |
Looking for Kitty [Edward Burns] dv/c |
2003 |
Poster Boy [Zak Tucker & (reshoots) Anthony Nicholich] dv-to-35mm/c; cph: Luke Geissbuhler & Wolfgang Held |
2003 |
Fahrenheit 9/11 [Michael Moore] dv-to-35mm/c; doc/122m; co-addph; ph: Mike Desjarlais |
2004 |
Fierce People [Griffin Dunne] c; aph: David Norris |
2004 |
Prime [Ben Younger] c |
2004 |
The Trials of Darryl Hunt [see 1993] |
2004 |
Play Your Own Thing - Auf den Spuren des Jazz in Europa [Julian Benedikt] c; doc/90m (2x 60m for tv); cph: Frank Griebe, a.o.; filmed 2004-05 |
2005 |
Wings for Wheels: The Making of 'Born to Run' [Thom Zimny] c/V; doc/90m |
2005 |
The Groomsmen [Edward Burns] c |
2005 |
Superheroes [Alan Brown] c; cph: Learan Kahanov |
2006 |
The Devil Came on Horseback [Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg] dv-to-35mm/c; doc/85m; cph: Phil Cox, Jerry Risius, a.o. |
2006 |
I Think I Love My Wife [Chris Rock (replaced Charles Stone III)] c; uncred reshoots ph: Peter Deming |
2006 |
Purple Violets [Edward Burns] c; first direct-to-digital release on Apple's iTunes Store website |
2006 |
Crazy Love [Dan Klores & (co-dir) Fisher Stevens] 16mm-35bu/b&w-c; doc/92m; co-addph; ph: Wolfgang Held & Claudia Raschke-Robinson |
2006 |
The Accidental Husband [Griffin Dunne] c |
2008 |
My Soul to Take [Wes Craven] s35/c; addph; ph: Petra Korner |
2008 |
Tony [Grant Heslov] c; short/13m; prod for The Responsibility Project sponsored by Liberty Mutual Insurance |
2008 |
Pushing the Elephant [Beth Davenport & Elizabeth Mandel] dv/c; doc/84m; addph New York; ph: B. Davenport, Ari Palos (Phoenix), Camilla Turner (Africa), a.o.; released in 2010 |
2008 |
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work [Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg] c; doc/84m; addph; ph: Charles Miller & Guy Mossman |
2009 |
No Woman, No Cry [Christy Turlington Burns] dv/c; doc/60m; co-addph USA (studio interview); ph: Kirsten Johnson |
2009 |
Nice Guy Johnny [Edward Burns] RED/c; + co-prod |
2009 |
Ceremony [Max Winkler] c |
2010 |
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town [Thom Zimny] HD/b&w-c; mus doc/85m; addph: Dillon DeWaters, Aaron Phillips, a.o.; + archive footage (1976-78) |
2010 |
Something Borrowed [Luke Greenfield] s35-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; co-2uc; ph: Charles Minsky |
2010 |
Movie 43/Truth or Dare [seg 'iBabe' dir by Steven Brill, 'Veronica/CVS' dir by Griffin Dunne, 'Find Our Daughter' (apparently cut from the film) dir by Bob Odenkirk & 'Homeschooled' dir by Will Graham] RED-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; 14 seg; other ph: Matthew Leonetti, Daryn Okada, Newton Thomas Sigel, Eric Scherbarth, Mattias Andersson Rudh, Steve Gainer, Frank DeMarco & Tim Suhrstedt; released in 2013 |
2010 |
Newlyweds [Edward Burns] HD (Canon EOS 5D)/c; shot in 12 days spread out over months to accommodate the actors' schedules |
2010 |
Friends with Kids [Jennifer Westfeldt] HD (ARRI ALEXA)-to-digital/c; filmed 2010-11 |
2012 |
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas [Edward Burns] c; add cam: Adam Miller & Nicolas Newbold |
2015 |
Circus Kid [Lorenzo Pisoni] c; doc/69m |
TELEVISION & INTERNET | |
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1991 |
Neglect Not the Children [Ricki Stern] doc/57m; cph: Peter Davis; + co-prod |
1996 |
Blue Note [- A Story of Modern Jazz] [Julian Benedikt & Andreas Missler-Morell] mus doc/b&w-c/113m; cph: Georg Steinweh, Torsten Heuer, a.o. |
1997 |
John Denver: Let This Be a Voice [Sandy Ostertag] doc/60m; addph: Shane Moore, Mark Stouffer, a.o.; ep PBS-tv doc series 'Nature' |
1997 |
Split Screen [ep #9 (seg #1) 'The Cinemoids' dir by Karl Bourke] film magazine series, 1997-2001, for the Independent Film Channel |
1998 |
David Blaine: Magic Man [Harmony Korine] special/60m |
1998 |
Private Dicks: Men Exposed [Thom Powers & Meema Spadola] doc/b&w-c/56m; ep HBO-tv series 'America Undercover' (1999) |
1999 |
Our House [: A Documentary] [: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay and Lesbian Parents] [Meema Spadola] doc/56m; cph: Victoria Ford & Scott Sinkler; for PBS-tv |
1999 |
Obsession with Orchids [Tim Shepherd] doc/60m; cph: T. Shepherd; ep PBS-tv doc series 'Nature' |
2000 |
Nickellennium [Linda Schaffer] doc/1440m (24 hours) + edited version (90m); cph: Jonathan Furmanski |
2000 |
Napoleon [David Grubin] 4-part (x 60m) doc/b&w-c; addph; ph: James Callanan; ep PBS-tv series 'Empires' |
2000 |
The Vagina Monologues [Eve Ensler] special/75m; cph: Dan Stoloff; ep HBO-tv series 'America Undercover' (2002) |
2000 |
David Blaine: Frozen in Time [Roger Goodman] special/60m |
2000 |
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided [David Grubin] 3-part doc/360m; co-addph; ph: James Callanan; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience' (2001) |
2001 |
The Hire [Ben Younger] dv/c; 5 interactive 2m shorts: 'The Car Thief and the Hit Man', 'The Hit Man and the Investigator', 'The Investigator and the Man in the Tan Jacket', 'The Man in the Tan Jacket and the Hotel Maid' & 'The Hotel Maid and the Package'; made for the internet film series 'The Hire' for carmaker BMW |
2001 |
Lost [exec prod: David Dugan & Nancy Stern] reality series, 2001-02; cph: Kenneth Carlson, Sarah Cawley, Ken Woo, a.o.; 2uc: Robert Barocci & Christian Hoagland |
2002 |
The Cosby Show: A Look Back [Nancy Stern] doc/120m; co-addph; ph: Jeff Christian |
2003 |
Art in the Twenty-First Century [ep #6 'Loss & Desire' (cons dir: Charles Atlas) & #7 'Time' (prod: Catherine Tatge)] 28-part doc series, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012 & 2014; 2nd season, 2003 (4 ep); cph: Dyanna Taylor (#6), Bob Elfstrom (#6-7), Mead Hunt (#6-7), Nancy Schreiber (#7), Tom Hurwitz (#7), a.o.; for PBS-tv |
2004 |
A Cut Above [?] special/mdv; cph: Derek McKane |
2006 |
China: From Red to Green? [Tad Fettig] ep #5 (HD/26m; 1st season) of PBS-tv doc series 'e² Design'; addph; ph: Robert Humphreys |
2009 |
The Lynch Pin [Edward Burns] 10-part (x 3-6m) series; + co-prod; for internet (Goldenharp.net) |
2009 |
Mercy [ep #1 'Can We Get That Drink Now?' dir by Adam Bernstein] 22-part series/HD (Genesis), 2009-10; other ph: Frank Prinzi & Dejan Georgevich |
2010 |
Bruce Springsteen: A Conversation with His Fans [Thom Zimny] doc/30m |
2011 |
Pan Am [various] 14-part series/HD (ARRI ALEXA), 2011-12; addph; ph: John Lindley (pilot/35mm) & Ron Fortunato |
2012 |
Next Caller/Satellites [Marc Buckland (pilot) & Adam Bernstein] 6-part (4 ep were completed) series; NBC-tv cancelled the show before airing |
2013 |
Middle Age Rage [Julie Anne Robinson] pilot/HD; for ABC-tv |
2014 |
Public Morals [Edward Burns] 10-part series/RED Epic Dragon, 2015; for TNT-tv |
2015 |
The Get Down [13 ep dir by various] series/b&w-c/RED Epic Dragon, 2016-present; 1st season, 2016 (13 ep); for Netflix |
2016 |
The Blacklist: Redemption [ep #4 'Operation Davenport' dir by John Terlesky] series, 2017 |
MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1992 |
Manhattan by Numbers [Amir Naderi] c.asst; ph: James Callanan |
1992 |
Scenes from the New World [Gordon Eriksen & Heather Johnston] special thanks; ph: Armando Basulto |
1994 |
Blessing [Paul Zehrer] 2u c.asst; ph: Stephen Kazmierski |
1994 |
FDR [David Grubin; 2-part tv-doc] co-c.asst; ph: Roger Phenix & William McCullough; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience' (1994) |
1996 |
TR - The Story of Theodore Roosevelt [David Grubin & Geoffrey Ward; 4-part tv-doc] co-c.asst; ph: James Callanan, Roger Phenix & William McCullough; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience' (1996) |
1996 |
El domini del sentits/El dominio de los sentidos/Domain of the Sense [5 seg dir by 5 women] co-c.asst; ph: James Callanan, Núria Roldos, a.o. |
1997 |
Truman [David Grubin; 3-part tv-doc] co-c.asst; ph: James Callanan, Roger Phenix & William McCullough; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience' (1997) |
1998 |
America 1900 [David Grubin; 4-part tv-doc] co-c.asst; ph: James Callanan & William McCullough; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience' (1998) |
2003 |
Deadline [Katy Chevigny & Kirsten Johnson; doc] co-thanks; ph: Kirsten Johnson |