{"id":1922,"date":"2023-09-27T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:16:24","slug":"interview-between-redcut-and-jeff-preiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redcutcollective.com\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Interview between RedCut and Jeff Preiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeff Preiss is a New York based filmmaker.\u00a0In 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&#8217;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,\u00a0Der 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&#8217;s Get Lost\u00a0by 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, Mus\u00e9e d\u02bcart Moderne de la Ville Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam. He has made\u00a0 collaborative work with artists including Joan Jonas, Andrea Fraser, R.H. Quaytman, Christian Philipp M\u00fcller, Josiah McElheny, Nicol\u00e1s 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.\u00a0His 2012 experimental feature film,\u00a0STOP was a selection of the 50th New York Film Festival and in 2014 his first feature narrative Low Down\u00a0won the Sundance Film Festival for cinematography and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for best actress:\u00a0Elle Fanning. Preiss is currently in preproduction on a second feature film and working on new collaborative projects with Josiah McElheny, Leslie Thornton,\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Guagnini and Madeline Hollander.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview between RedCut and Jeff Preiss\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDGri1DqyzM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Preiss is a New York based filmmaker.\u00a0In 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. 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