Jeff Preiss is within giant steps of artists around the planet, in reach of everybody everywhere per the same seemingly miraculous small-world principle which dictates that there are between most human beings on earth 6 or fewer degrees of separation...
...inside a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
ˈmātriks - "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya!
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Jeff Preiss
- City: New York City
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Jeff Preiss is a New York based filmmaker.
In the 1980s He was co-director of the Lower East Side film venue Films Charas, and a board member of The Collective For Living Cinema. His work from this time was included in MoMA's survey on the history of 8mm and has been recently preserved by The Warhol Foundation and Anthology Film Archives.
In 1984 he traveled to Berlin to shoot the Rosa Von Praunheim produced Vampire Film, Der Bis directed by Marianne Enzensberger.
Beginning n 1987, he served as the Director of Photography on a series of short films and feature documentaries including Let's Get Lost by Bruce Weber which won the Venice Film Festival Critics Award and an Academy Award nomination for best documentary.
Soon after his career took on directing commercials and music videos (for Iggy Pop, Malcolm McLaren, REM, B52s / Apple, Nike, Coke, etc.).
In 1989 he co-founded the production company Epoch Films with Mindy Goldberg. Since that time he has produced a serial project of installations exhibited at MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MOCA Los Angels, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Musée dʼart Moderne de la Ville Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam.
He has made collaborative work with artists including Joan Jonas, Andrea Fraser, R.H. Quaytman, Christian Philipp Müller, Josiah McElheny, Nicolás Guagnini, Karin Schneider and Anthony McCall. In 2004 he completed an 8 screen film installation on architectural cinematography commissioned by Rem Koolhass that traveled with the OMA retrospective CONTENT.
His work is in the collection of MoMA, MOCA Los Angeles, The Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Hessel Museum and Anthology Film Archives.
In 2005 Preiss cofounded the experimental gallery, ORCHARD in New York. His program there was instrumental in the founding of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, where he currently serves on the board.
His 2012 experimental feature film, STOP was a selection of the 50th New York Film Festival and in 2014 his first feature narrative Low Down won the Sundance Film Festival for cinematography and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for best actress: Elle Fanning.
Preiss is currently in preproduction on a second feature film and working on new collaborative projects with Josiah McElheny, Leslie Thornton, Nicolás Guagnini and Madeline Hollander.
My Media
- ▶ Twitter: jeffpreiss
- ▶ Instagram: jpdogs
- ▶ Website: http://www.jeffpreiss.net
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Born 1956, New York
Education: 1979 BA. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Selected Filmography:
2019 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 90 min 8mm-DCP
2018 TITLE for Adolfas Mekas (7 Channels) Looping 16mm-DVD
2014 Low Down 119 min 16mm-DCP
2011 STOP 120 min 16mm-DCP
2008 Spring-Wound Looping 16mm-DVD
2008 LIGHT CLUB (with Joshia McElheny) Looping 16mm-HD
2008 Five Minute Drawing (with Anthony McCall) Looping 16mm-HD
2008 DISCHARGE (with Nicolás Guagnini) Looping 16mm-DVD
2007 Strip Mirror Looping 16mm-DVD
2007 Around The Corner (with Christian Philipp Müller) Looping 16mm-DVD
2006 ORCHARD Document, May I Help You? (with Andrea Fraser) Looping 16mm-HD
2006 Temple Looping 16mm-DVD
2005 Scan Odyssey 45 min 16mm-DVD
2005 ORCHARD: Parts 1 through 4 (4 monitors) Looping 16mm-DVD
2004 The Embassy (8 Channels on 4 monitors) 80 min 16mm-DVD
2002 TWINS (with Union Gaucha Productions) 12min 16mm
2002 MONTAGE VERITE (with Joan Jonas) Looping 16mm-DVD
2002 LA / Alaska / Long Island (8 Channels) 20 min. 16mm-DVD
2002 2001 (10 Channels) Looping 16mm-DVD
2000 Untitled Sequences Still and Moving, bins 1-51 90 min. 16mm-DVD
1990 House of Tres (with Diane Martel) 17 min. 16mm-video
1988 Let’s Get Lost Newsreel 17 mim 8mm silent
1987 Broken Noses Newsreel 19 min. 8mm silent
1987 Wild Kingdom Pt. 7 11 min. 8mm silent
1985 Wild Kingdom Pt. 3 9 min. 8mm silent
1984 Wild Kingdom Pt. 2 (Boy Town) 14 min. 8mm silent
1982 Fred In Hell Trailer 9 min. 8mm silent
1981 Ludlow St. Newsreel Pt. 1 & 2 21 min. 8mm silent
Films As Cinematographer
1988 Let’s Get Lost Dir. Bruce Weber
1988 You The City Dir. Fiona Templeton
1987 Beauty Brothers Parts 1-5 Dir. Bruce Weber
1987 Broken Noses Dir. Bruce Weber
1987 Survival in New York Dir. Rosa Von Praunheim
1986 Dolly, Lotte and Maria Dir. Rosa Von Praunhein
1985 Mr. Ashley Proposes (Portrait of George) Dir. Stuart Sherman
1984 Der Biß Dir. Marianne Enzensberger
Selected Exhibitions / Screenings
2019 MoMA Modern Monday
2019 ICA London Ghislaine Leung Selects
2018 3A Gallery TITLE for Adolfas Mekas
2017 Anthology Film Archive RE-VISIONS: EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1975-90
2017 ZHDK Kino Zurich / Palace St. Gallen EP St. Gallen Presents
2015 Yale Union, Portland, OR STOP at the NW Film Center
2015 Artists Space, NY with Union Gaucha Productions
2015 Museum der Moderne Salzberg Andrea Fraser
2014 Arsenal, Berlin Silberkuppe Presents
2014 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria Sommerfestival
2014 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection - Competition
2014 Sundance Film Festival US Dramatic Competition
2013 Murray Guy, NY SCREENS
2013 The Whitney Museum of American Art Blues For Smoke
2012 MOCA Los Angeles Blues for Smoke
2012 New York Film Festival Views From The Avant Garde
2008 ORCHARD, NY Spring Wound
2007 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels Anne Daems Invites
2007 ORCHARD, NY ON THE COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMA
2006 Anthology Film Archives, NY 30 Years of BB Optics
2005 ORCHARD, NY Reality/Play
2004 ORCHARD, NY Part Two.
2004 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Rem Koolhaas / Content
2002 Museum In Progress / Galleria Continua Deimantas Narkevicius/Michellangelo Pistoletto/Jeff Preiss
2002 Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium WHAT? A Tale In Free Images
2002 CCA KITAKYUSHU, Japan Void Archive
2001 Centre Pompidou, Paris Programme Video by BDV
2001 Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam Cinema without Walls
2000 media_city seoul 2000 City Vision
2000 Musée d’art moderne de la Ville Paris Voila – le monde dans la tête
2000 Museum of Modern Art, New York As Big as Life, The History of 8mm
1988 San Francisco Cinematheque Jeff Preiss & Henry Hills
1987 The Collective For Living Cinema, NY Jeff Preiss 8mm Films
1986 MoMA PS 1, NY Jeff Preiss & Bob Fleischner
1986 The Collective For Living Cinema, NY Jeff Preiss 8mm Films
1985 MoMA PS 1, NY Film Pulse Series
1984 Films Charas, NY Jeff Preiss 8mm Films
2011-present Board Member, Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York.
2004-2008 Partner and Co-Director of ORCHARD, Lower East Side, New York.
1995-present Partner in the film production Company: Epoch Films
1986-1991 Board Member, THE COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMA, New York
1981-1987 Co-Director, Films Charas, New York
