Sean Price Williams
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Sean Price Williams is an American cinematographer, film director, and film actor. He is known for his textured, fluid camerawork (often handheld) and a heightened attention to available light. The New Yorker film critic Richard Brody described Williams (in a memorial appraisal of documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, for whom Williams served extensively as cameraman), as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary — including Frownland, Yeast, Fake It So Real, The Color Wheel, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, Listen Up Philip, the Safdie brothers' ... Heaven Knows What, and Alex Ross Perry's new [as of 2015] feature Queen of Earth."[1] In a 2013 article for Film.com, critic Calum Marsh deemed Williams "micro-budget filmmaking's most exciting cinematographer."[2] Marsh would go on to write in a 2014 article in Toronto's National Post that "Williams, in particular, has proven indispensable to the [2010s American independent film] movement, and over the past several years has distinguished dozens of the films with his all but peerless talent for photography, from experimental nonfiction work like Maiko Endo’s Kuichisan to more conventional comedies like Bob Byington’s Somebody Up There Likes Me."[3] Williams has also worked several times with the director Abel Ferrara, whom he greatly admires.
Along with other celebrated figures of the New York independent film scene such as Perry, Kate Lyn Sheil, Robert Greene, Luke Oleksa, and Michael M. Bilandic, Williams was a long-time employee of famed New York video and music store Kim's Video and Music.[4] Prior to that, Williams worked at the famed Video Americain stores in Maryland and Delaware. He also worked as part of the staff of Albert Maysles' production company Maysles Films.
Filmography (as Cinematographer)
- 1999 The Overcoat by Evan Guilfoyle
- 2001 Twelve by Daniel Noah
- 2003 Ye Are the Light of the World (Don't Stare into the Sun) by Robert Greene
- 2003 Six Videos About Tourism by Robert Greene
- 2004 Water People by Ned Ambler
- 2005 Sports: A 12 Part History by Robert Greene
- 2006 Sans supervision by Andrew T. Betzer
- 2007 Frownland by Ronald Bronstein
- 2008 Small Apartment by Andrew T. Betzer
- 2008 Yeast by Mary Bronstein
- 2008 Close Up: Portraits by Albert Maysles
- 2009 Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo by Jessica Oreck
- 2009 John Wayne Hated Horses by Andrew T. Betzer
- 2009 Sea Legs by Craig Butta
- 2009 Impolex by Alex Ross Perry
- 2009 Life.Support.Music by Eric Daniel Metzgar
- 2010 More Than a Paycheck: Mitchum Presents America's Hardest Workers by Bradley Kaplan and Albert Maysles
- 2010 Kati with an I by Robert Greene
- 2010 Beijing Taxi by Miao Wang
- 2010 Mulberry St. by Abel Ferrara
- 2011 Happy Life by Michael M. Bilandic
- 2011 The Color Wheel by Alex Ross Perry
- 2011 Eyes Find Eyes — also as co-director with Jean-Manuel Fernandez
- 2011 Slacker 2011 segment "Les Amis at Night" by Bob Byington
- 2011 A Wilderness of Mirrors by John Bosch
- 2012 Fake It So Real by Robert Greene
- 2012 The Black Balloon by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
- 2012 Somebody Up There Likes Me by Bob Byington
- 2012 Kuichisan by Maiko Endo
- 2012 While Henry Sleeps by Craig Butta
- 2012 Candy Rides by Jason Giampietro
- 2012 Flow by Hugues Hariche
- 2012 Thigh by Daniel Cowen
- 2013 The Sun Thief by Jason Giampietro
- 2013 Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman by Dustin Guy Defa
- 2013 Hellaware by Michael M. Bilandic
- 2013 I Will Paint Your Spirit by Jason Giampietro
- 2013 Weasel by Charles Birns
- 2013 The Sixth Year segments by Alex Ross Perry and Dustin Guy Defa
- 2013 Whiffed Out by Jason Giampietro
- 2013 The Traditions by Alex Ross Perry (made for HBO; currently unreleased)
- 2014 Sin Alas by Ben Chace
- 2014 Listen Up Philip by Alex Ross Perry
- 2014 The Vanishing of the Witch Baba Yaga by Jessica Oreck
- 2014 Uncle Floyd by Charles Poekel
- 2014 Young Bodies Heal Quickly by Andrew T. Betzer
- 2014 If You Take This by Craig Butta
- 2014 Christmas, Again by Charles Poekel
- 2014 Heaven Knows What by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
- 2015 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon by Douglas Tirola
- 2015 Queen of Earth by Alex Ross Perry
- 2015 The Best Best Friends Game by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
- 2015 Connection Unavailable (TV series)
- 2015 Muck by Bruce Smolanoff
- 2015 Icarus by Nicholas Elliott
- 2015 Pyramid by Julie Sokolowski
- 2015 A Stone Appears by Constantine Venetopoulos[5]
External links
References
- ^ Brody, Richard, "Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015", The New Yorker, March 6, 2015.
- ^ Marsh, Calum, "Meet Micro-Budget Filmmaking's Most Exciting Cinematographer", Film.com, July 17, 2013.
- ^ Marsh, Calum, "America’s most vital filmmaking movement finally shows its face on Canadian screens", National Post, October 24, 2014.
- ^ "The Story of Kim’s Video & Music, Told By Its Clerks and Customers", Bedford + Bowery, August 22, 2014.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5502412/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_2