Jeff Preiss
Jeff Preiss is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, director and producer known for the documentaries Let's Get Lost (1988) and Broken Noses (1987).
Jeff Preiss
- Born
- 1956
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- film director · cinematographer · film producer · artist
- Education
- Bard College
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In 1987 Preiss began working with Rosa von Praunheim and Bruce Weber as Director of Photography on a series of short films and features. This included the documentary features Dolly, Lotte and Maria, Broken Noses and Let's Get Lost. The latter, which focused on the jazz legend Chet Baker, won the Venice Film Festival Critics Award and received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary. Preiss collaborated for three years with Weber, then expanded his career to include directing television commercials and music videos (including music video clips for Iggy Pop, Malcolm McLaren, REM, B52s, and Mariah Carey; and commercials for Nike, L.L. Bean, and Monster.com. Preiss directed an advertisement produced by Deutsch LA for Zillow, the real estate database company. In May 2005, Preiss co-founded Orchard, a co-operative experimental exhibition space, where he collaborated on a series of films with Andrea Fraser, Nicolás Guagnini, Christian Philipp Müller, Josiah McElheny, Moyra Davey and Anthony McCall. Works from this series have joined collections including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Preiss later became a founding partner of Epoch Media Group, where he executive produced the motion picture Gigantic. In 2013 Epoch produced Low Down, a biopic based on the life of jazz pianist Joe Albany, along with producers Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger, and Burton Ritchie. It was released in 2014. Preiss is now a board member at Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. He was also a board member of The Collective for Living Cinema.
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Jeff Preiss, recorded as an artist and video artist, was born in 1956. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Personal life
Preiss is separated from his wife, the painter R. H. Quaytman. They have a son. Preiss currently resides in New York.
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- 1.Broken Noses, New York Times
- 2.Broken Noses Review, New York Times 1987.
- 3.Let's Get Lost Review, NY Times 1989.
- 4.Festival mentions for Let's Get Lost, 1989.
- 5.Academy Award Nomination , amc movie guide.
- 6.Mariah Carey Videography
- 7.Director's Reel, Epoch Films.
- 8.L.L. Bean "Journey", AdWeek.
- 9.Rise and Shine with Monster.com, AdWeek.
- 10.Todd Bishop. Zillow tugs at heartstrings in new ad, to debut during Oscars. GeekWire. February 20, 2015.
- 11.Deutsch LA Brings It All Back Home for Zillow. Adweek. February 23, 2015.
- 12.Orchard Gallery Page ,.
- 13.Orchard Exhibition in Berlin.
- 14.Adweek article on Jeff Preiss at Epoch Media Group
- 15.Gigantic Credits
- 16.'Low Down' just had to get made. Los Angeles Times. January 21, 2014.
- 17.westsideschl. Low Down (2014). IMDb. January 27, 2015.
- 18.Light Industry
- 19.Epoch Films. Epoch Films – Jeff Preiss.
- 20.Steinberg, Claudia. New York Times, July 8, 2004 - HOUSE PROUD; Built Just as the Sculptor Dreamed It, by Claudia Steinberg. The New York Times. July 8, 2004.
- 21.R.H. Quaytman - Magazine - Art in America. Art in America. June 4, 2010.
- 22.R.H. Quaytman uses Op Art to tell a story at the Institute of Contemporary Art - The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe.
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