LISA RINZLER

#2: 2001

#3: "The Soul of a Man" [2002]

LISA RINZLER

Born: 30 November 1955, ?, New Jersey, USA.

Education: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. [Painting]; New York University's Tisch School of the Arts [graduated in 1978].

Career: Ph music videos.

Also active as still ph [e.g. photos for the book 'The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic', 2008, followed by the exhibition 'The Grass Is Green' in Santa Monica, 2010].

She is one of 30 women discussed in the book 'Great Women of Film' [2002, Helena Lumme & Mika Manninen], and was subject of the accompanying photography exhibition in February 2002.

Appeared in the doc's 'Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography' [1991] & 'Women Behind the Camera' [2001-06, Alexis Krasilovsky; Rinzler's interview seg ph by Jendra Jarnagin].

Awards: Independent Spirit Award [1994] for 'Menace II Society'; Sundance FF Cinematography Award [1999] & Independent Spirit Award [2000] for 'Three Seasons'; Women in Film 'Kodak Vision Award' [2000]; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [2000] for 'Pollock'; 'Emmy' Award [2004] for 'Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues' [ep 'The Soul of a Man'].

Lisa Rinzler: 'A DP's job is to represent, embellish, and enhance the director's vision. But you never want to remove yourself, and all your experiences, from the equation. That's why syncing up with the director, finding a chemistry, is critical. 'Three Seasons', for example, was an enormously difficult, yet gratifying film. We were the first American feature to shoot in Vietnam, and they don't have the support system like we do here. Plans had to be scrapped or changed; the equipment was not what we're accustomed to. But even if a movie experiences some form of chaos, and that's practically every independent film [laughs], you still have a foundation to draw on. You have your creative belief system, coupled with the preparation you and your crew have worked so hard on, and they all come through for you. When time is short and every decision seems hurried, the combination of preparation and experience will get you through the storm. And I'm not talking about just getting the shot. I'm talking about doing beautiful, challenging work that everyone on the film can be proud of.' [From interview with David Geffner in 'MovieMaker', Issue #35.]

FILMS
1982	Reverse Angle [: Ein Brief aus New York] [: NYC March '82] [Wim Wenders] 16mm/c; doc/17m
1983	Ohio at Giverny [Mary Lucier] v/b&w; exp short/19m; originally a two-channel, seven-monitor video installation
1983	Ohio at Giverny: Memory of Light [Mary Lucier] v/c; exp short/19m
1984	Lady [Robert Mapplethorpe] c; doc/5m
1985	Amateur Hour/I Was a Teenage TV Terrorist [Stanford Singer] 16mm-35bu/c
1986	Forever, Lulu/Crazy Streets/Für immer Lulu [Amos Kollek] c
1987	The Dead [John Huston] c; doc ph; ph: Fred Murphy
1987	[Behind the Screen: Stories of Cinema -] John Huston & the Dubliners [Lilyan Sievernich] 16mm/c; doc/60m
1987	No Sense of Crime [Julie Jacobs] 16mm/c; doc/30m
1988	Mr. Fixit [Topper Lilien] c; short/24m
1988	From Hollywood to Deadwood [Rex Pickett] c; addph; ph: Peter Deming
1988	True Love [Nancy Savoca] c; 2uc: John Hazard, Jeff Preiss, Susan Starr & Jeff Weyman
1990	The Abandon 58/Abandoned '58 [Michael Haussman] 16mm/c; short/28m
1990	Death By Unnatural Causes [Karen Bellone (a film by Karen Bellone and Lisa Rinzler)] b&w-c; exp short/18m
1991	Guncrazy [Tamra Davis] c; 2uc: Troy Smith & Rob Copeland
1992	Menace II Society [Albert & Allen Hughes] c; 2uc: John Demps; aph: Jon Kranhouse
*1993*	Bad Girls [Tamra Davis (replaced by Jonathan Kaplan)] started film with T. Davis, but replaced by ph Ralf D. Bode
1994	Lisbon Story/Viagem a Lisboa [Wim Wenders] b&w-c
1994	Alfama [Wim Wenders] c; music video/4m
1994	Dead Presidents [Albert & Allen Hughes] s35/c; 2uc: David Waterston
1995	Trees Lounge [Steve Buscemi] c
1995	Black Kites [Jo Andres] c; exp short/26m; 16mm projected film by J. Andres
1996	Urban Fairytale [Michelle Mahrer] b&w; short/15m
1996	In the House [Lisa Rinzler & Peter Stastny] 16mm/b&w-c; exp short/15m (3 seg: 'Donna', 'Nicholas' & 'Towana'); + co-prod
1997	Three Seasons/Ba mua [Tony Bui] c; 2uc: Jamie Maxtone-Graham
1998	Buena Vista Social Club [Wim Wenders] DigiBeta-to-35mm/c; doc/101m; ph New York; cph: Robby Müller (Amsterdam) & Jörg Widmer (Amsterdam & Cuba)

With dir Ed Harris - "Pollock"

1999	Pollock [Ed Harris] c
2001	Love Liza [Todd Louiso] c; 2uc: Sean Finnegan
2001	Welcome to Collinwood [Anthony & Joe Russo] s35/c; cph: Charles Minsky
2001	The Other Side of Joy [Randi Hoffmann] c; 64m
2002	The Guys [Jim Simpson] b&w-c; co-addph; ph: Maryse Alberti
2003	Lightning in a Bottle [Antoine Fuqua] b&w-c; concert film/109m; ph doc unit: Richard Pearce, Hart Perry & Greg Andracke; filmed on 7 February in the Radio City Music Hall, New York; presented by Volkswagen of America, Inc.
2003	Rick [Curtiss Clayton] dv-to-35mm/c
2003	Drifter [Lori Chodos] 16mm/c; short/32m; prod City College of New York
2003	The Realtor [Karen Bellone] c; short/26m; addph; ph: K. Bellone
2003	Drum [Zola Maseko] c
2004	No Direction Home: Bob Dylan [Martin Scorsese] b&w-c; mus doc/205m; cph: Oliver Bokelberg, Anghel Decca, Ellen Kuras, Maryse Alberti, Michael Spiller, a.o.; in USA also 2-part ep of PBS-tv series 'American Masters' (2005)
*2004*	Lymelife [Derick & Steve Martini] scheduled as ph, but film was ph by Frank Godwin in March 2008
2004	The War Within/Over the Mountains [Joseph Castelo] HD (Sony F900)-to-35mm/c; addph: Joseph White & David Leitner
2005	Behind Those Eyes [Alex Gibney] c; mus doc/98m; cph: Alan Deutsch, Jeff Myers, Rick Siegel, a.o.
2005	The Night Listener [Patrick Stettner] c
2005	Drunkboat [Bob Meyer] s16/c
2005	Gardener of Eden [Kevin Connolly] c
2006	Women Behind the Camera [Alexis Krasilovsky] c; doc/90m; seg Pillow Fight' (ph by Alan Smith) uses 16mm footage shot by L. Rinzler; filmed 2001-06

"Sleep Dealer"

2006	Sleep Dealer [Alex Rivera] s16+HD (Sony F900)-to-35mm)/c
2007	The Year of Getting to Know Us/Rocket [Patrick Sisam] c; addph (+ c.op 'b' cam): Brown Cooper
2007	2B/TransBeMan [Richard Kroehling] HD (Panasonic HDX-900)/c; 2uc: Dylan Verrechia
2008	An Invisible Sign [Marilyn Agrelo] s35/c
2009	Saving David Powell [Sally Norvell] c; doc/29m; cph: Eli Adler
2009	30 Beats [Alexis Lloyd] v-to-35mm/c; released in 2012
2009	Flor de Muertos/Flower of the Dead [Danny Vinik] HD/c; concert film + doc/91m
2009	American Passages [Ruth Beckermann] dv-to-35mm/c; doc/120m; cph: Antoine Parouty; addph: Johannes Hammel & Eric Goover; filmed 2009-10

[Right] with Martha Davis - "Doctors of the Dark Side"

2010	Doctors of the Dark Side [Martha Davis] HD (Canon EOS)/c; doc/74m
2011	Close Your Eyes [Sonia Malfa] 35mm+HD-to-digital/c; short/15m
2011	BMW: Bombay's Most Wanted [Aditya Bhattacharya] c; filmed 2011-12
2012	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God [Alex Gibney] ?-to-digital/c; doc + dram re-enactments/106m; addph: Mike Gillis & Samuel Painter; also aired on HBO-tv
2012	Liquid Tara [Jo Andres] c; exp short/9m; 2nd cam: Christina Massey
2012	Ana Tijoux in Arizona [Alex Rivera] c; mus short/4m; addph: Daniel Devivo
2012	City of Joy [Madeleine Gavin] c; doc/74m; cph: Taylor Krauss; add cam: Chris Babiana, Sam Cullman, M. Gavin, Revocatus Namegabe; released in 2016
2013	Missing People [David Shapiro] c; doc/76m
2013	N(e)ig(h)g(bo)ers - A Play with C(art)oons by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins [a film by Karen Bellone & Lisa Rinzler] b&w-c; doc/22m; addph: Craig Takahashi & Ashley Stern
2013	The Unattainable Story/The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable [Emilia Ferreira] HD (ARRI ALEXA + Sony F55 & PMW-EX1-R)+s16/c
2014	The Lennon Report [Jeremy Profe] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c
2014	Hitchcock / Truffaut [Kent Jones] HD-to-digital/b&w-c; doc/79m; ph New York; cph New York: Nick Bentgen & Daniel Cowen; ph Paris, France: Éric Gautier; ph Los Angeles: Mihai Malaimare Jr.; ph Tokyo: Genta Tamaki
2015	Don't Blink - Robert Frank [Laura Israel] b&w-c; doc/82m; add cam: Edward Lachman, L. Israel, Alex Bingham, Tom Jarmusch & Andrew Lampert; in memory of Harris Savides
2015	She Enters the Room 7 Times [Richard Kroehling] c; short/15m
2016	Cabaret Maxime [Bruno de Almeida] c

TELEVISION
1986	William Carlos Williams [Richard P. Rogers] doc/56m/16mm; cph: R.P. Rogers & Jerry Cotts; ep PBS-tv series 'Voices and Visions'
1988	Teach 109 [Richard Kletter] tvm/25m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse Triple Play'
1989	Warhol's Cinema: Mirror for the Sixties [Keith Griffiths] doc/b&w-c/64m
1993	Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their 'Johns' [Beeban Kidron] doc/85m
1999	World Without End [Richard Kroehling] doc + fiction/b&w-c/?m
2000	Confessions [prod: Richard Kroehling & Eric Nadler] reality series; other ph: Drew Harty; for truTV
2001	The Blues [ep 'Feel Like Going Home' dir by Martin Scorsese] 7-part mus doc series/DVcam; addph; ph: Arthur Jafa; for PBS-tv
2002	[Martin Scorsese Presents] The Blues [ep 'The Soul of a Man' dir by Wim Wenders] DVcam+35mm (hand-cranked)+16mm-to-35mm/b&w-c/105m; see 2001; also in theatres
2002	Covered Girls [Janet McIntyre & Amy Wendel] doc/21m/DigiBeta; also seg of 'Reflections from Ground Zero' (9 seg); prod Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
2002	Are You Comfortable? [prod: Lesli Klainberg] pilot for talk show (with John Lurie); for the Independent Film Channel
2003	Taking Vegas [Richard Kroehling] doc/44m/v; cph: Drew Harty & Reuben O'Malley; ep truTV series 'The Investigators'/'Crime Stories'
2009	Treme [pilot (80m) 'Do You Know What It Means' dir by Agnieszka Holland] 36-part series, 2010-13; 1st season, 2010 (10 ep); other ph: Irek Hartowicz (cph pilot), Ivan Strasburg & Russell Fine (ph New York)
2010	Public Speaking [Martin Scorsese] doc/84m/HD; addph; ph: Ellen Kuras; premiered on HBO-tv
2012	Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream [Alex Gibney] doc/54m/HD; cph: Ronan Killeen; addph: Maryse Alberti, Jon Else, Darren Lew, a.o.; in USA ep of PBS-tv series 'Independent Lens'
2013	The 50 Year Argument [Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi] doc/b&w-c/97m/HD (Canon EOS C300); addph: Ellen Kuras, Mark Carey & Albert Maysles; festivals, BBC-tv ('Arena') & HBO-tv (2014)
2014	Brillo Box (3¢ off) [Lisanne Skyler] doc/40m; cph: Minos Papas & Byron Shah

MISCELLANEOUS
1978	The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody [Stephen Foreman; tvm/29m] co-electrician; ph: Fred Murphy
1980	Fist of Fear, Touch of Death/The Dragon and the Cobra [Matthew Mallinson] c.asst; ph: John Hazard
1980	Possum Living [Nancy Schreiber; doc] c.asst; ph: N. Schreiber
1980	The Ghost Dance [Peter F. Buffa] 2nd c.asst; ph: Fred Murphy
1981	Rites of Passing [Nancy Schreiber; co-d: Peter Polymenakos; dance film] co-spec thanks; ph: N. Schreiber
1981	Conversations with Willard Van Dyke [Amalie R. Rothschild] co-c.asst; ph: Tom McDonough
1982	Eddie and the Cruisers [Martin Davidson] c.asst; ph: Fred Murphy
1982	Girls Nite Out/The Scaremaker [Robert Deubel] c.asst; ph: Joe Rivers
1983	Seeing Red [: Stories of American Communists] [James Klein & Julia Reichert; doc] c.asst; ph: Sandi Sissel, a.o.
1983	Sessions [Richard Pearce; tvm] co-c.asst; ph: Fred Murphy
1983	Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer [Bill Persky; tvm] 2nd c.asst; ph: Fred Murphy
1984	Key Exchange [Barnet Kellman] c.asst; ph: Fred Murphy
2010	George Harrison: Living in the Material World [Martin Scorsese; doc] co-c.op; ph: Martin Kenzie & Robert Richardson; prod started filming late 2007; premiered in 2-parts on HBO-tv (2011)
2011	America Time Moving & Storage [Karen Bellone & Lisa Rinzler] 8-part (designed to stand alone) photography/film/video installation; 1st part is a 8m/b&w-c film, 'Wheel of Life' (360° arc projection)

FILMS AS DIRECTOR
19??	World Citizen [?]
1996	In the House [co-d; + co-prod/ph] see Films
2011	America Time Moving & Storage [co-d: Karen Bellone] see Miscellaneous
2013	N(e)ig(h)g(bo)ers - A Play with C(art)oons by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins [co-d: Karen Bellone] see Films