Jeff Preiss

Jeff Preiss is a filmmaker living in New York. He graduated from the Bard College film program in 1979 having studied with Adolfas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Warren Sonbert, and P. Adams Sitney. During the eighties he became involved in the production of experimental cinema showing works at venues including The Collective for Living Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Work from this time was included in Big as Life, a ... more

Jeff Preiss is a filmmaker living in New York. He graduated from the Bard College film program in 1979 having studied with Adolfas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Warren Sonbert, and P. Adams Sitney. During the eighties he became involved in the production of experimental cinema showing works at venues including The Collective for Living Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Work from this time was included in Big as Life, a History of 8mm at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Through much of the 80s he was co-director of the pioneering Lower East Side film series Films Charas and a board member of the Collective for Living Cinema. In 1984 he traveled to Berlin to shoot the Rosa von Praunheim produced Vampire film, Der Bis. In 1987 he was invited by photographer Bruce Weber to be Director of Photography on a series of short films and two feature documentaries, Broken Noses and Let's Get Lost, the latter, on the jazz legend Chet Baker, winning the Venice Film... less