Lisa Rinzler

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations. See more awards »

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Menace II Society Cinematographer

(1993)

Pollock Cinematographer

(2000)

In the House Cinematographer

(1997)

Three Seasons Cinematographer

(1999)

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Cinematographer (84 credits)

10-13 (pre-production)

The Undertow (Short) (post-production)

2015 She Enters the Room 7 Times (Video short) (completed)

2020 Generation Lockdown (Short)

2019 Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (Documentary short)

2019 The Infiltrators

2018 Cabaret Maxime

2018 Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (Documentary)

2017 Redemption Blues (Documentary)

2017 Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year Awards (TV Short)

2017 The Unattainable Story

2016 City of Joy (Documentary)

2016 Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) (TV Short documentary)

2016 The Lennon Report

2015 Don't Blink (Documentary)

2015/I Missing People (Documentary)

2015 Hitchcock/Truffaut (Documentary) (director of photography: NY)

2014 The 50 Year Argument (Documentary)

2014 The Supreme Price (Documentary)

2013 Close Your Eyes (Short)

2012 Liquid Tara (Video short)

2012 Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

- Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream (2012)

2012 Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (Documentary)

2012 BMW: Bombay's Most Wanted

2012 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Documentary) (as Lisa Riuzler)

2012 30 Beats

2011 Doctors of the Dark Side (Documentary)

2011 Flor de Muertos (Documentary)

2011 American Passages (Documentary)

2010 Saving David Powell (Documentary short)

2010 Drunkboat

2010 An Invisible Sign (director of photography)

2010 Treme (TV Series) (director of photography - 1 episode)

- Do You Know What It Means (2010) ... (director of photography)

2009 2B

2008 The Year of Getting to Know Us (director of photography)

2008 Sleep Dealer

2007 Women Behind the Camera (Documentary)

2007/I Gardener of Eden

2006 Best of Chris Isaak (Video) (director of photography - music video "Don't Make Me Dream About You")

2006 The Night Listener (director of photography)

2005 Behind Those Eyes (Documentary)

2005 The War Within

2005 American Masters (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

2004 Drum

2004 Lightning in a Bottle (Documentary)

2003 Are You Comfortable? (TV Movie)

2003 Rick

2003 The Soul of a Man (Documentary)

2003 The Other Side of Joy

2002 The Abandoned 58 (Short)

2002 Covered Girls (TV Short documentary)

2002 Welcome to Collinwood

2002 Love Liza (director of photography)

2000 Pollock (director of photography)

1999 Three Seasons

1997 Urban Fairytale (Short)

1997 In the House (Short)

1996 Paul Westerberg: Love Untold (Short)

1996 Trees Lounge

1996 Black Kites (Short)

1996 Nick Cave & P J Harvey: Henry Lee (Short)

1995 Dead Presidents

1994 Lisbon Story

1993 Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (Documentary) (director of photography)

1993 Nanci Griffith & John Prine: Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (Short)

1993 Menace II Society

1992 Guncrazy

1992 Willy DeVille: I Call Your Name (Short)

1992 K.D. Lang: Miss Chatelaine (Short)

1991 Chris Whitley: Living with the Law (Short)

1989 Chris Isaak: Don't Make Me Dream About You (Video short)

1989 Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (TV Movie documentary)

1989 Fine Young Cannibals: I'm Not the Man I Used to Be (Video short)

1989 Teach 109 (TV Short)

1989/I True Love

1988 Mr. Fixit (Short)

1988 New Order: Blue Monday 1988 (Video short)

1987 John Huston and the Dubliners (Documentary)

1987 Forever, Lulu

1986 William Carlos Williams (Documentary)

1985 I Was a Teenage TV Terrorist

1984 Lady (Short documentary)

1982 Reverse Angle: Ein Brief aus New York (Documentary short)

1979 Dance (Film-as-Set Design) (Short)

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Camera and Electrical Department (20 credits)

2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Documentary) (additional camera)

2018 Cabaret Maxime (camera operator)

2011 George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Documentary) (camera operator)

2010 Public Speaking (Documentary) (additional photography)

2003 The Investigators (TV Series documentary) (camera - 1 episode)

- Taking Vegas (2003) ... (camera)

2003 The Blues (TV Series documentary) (additional photography - 1 episode)

- Feel Like Going Home (2003) ... (additional photography)

2003 The Soul of a Man (Documentary) (dv camera operator)

2002 The Guys (additional photographer)

1999 Buena Vista Social Club (Documentary) (director of photography: New York crew)

1987 The Dead (camera operator: documentary crew)

1985 Key Exchange (assistant camera)

1983 Sessions (TV Movie) (assistant camera)

1983 Eddie and the Cruisers (second assistant camera)

1983 Seeing Red (Documentary) (additional assistant camera)

1983 Touched (second assistant camera)

1982 Girls Nite Out (first assistant camera)

1982 The Ghost Dance (second assistant camera - as Lisa Rinz)

1980 Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (Documentary) (assistant camera - as Liza Rinzler)

1980 When a Child Dies (Documentary short) (assistant camera)

1978 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series) (electrician - 1 episode)

- The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody (1978) ... (electrician)

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Director (2 credits)

1997 In the House (Short)

1979 Dance (Film-as-Set Design) (Short) (co-director)

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Producer (1 credit)

1997 In the House (Short) (producer)

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Thanks (1 credit)

1992 Visions of Light (Documentary) (special thanks: AFI)

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Self (2 credits)

2007 Women Behind the Camera (Documentary)
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1992 Visions of Light (Documentary)
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Personal Details

Alternate Names:

Lisa Rinz | Liza Rinzler | Lisa Riuzler

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Personal Quote:

[talking about her photography work for the film Pollock]: "The driving force behind the photography was a need to express and help bring to life Pollock's intensity as a man and as an artist,my strongest impression of him was that he was full of immense energy, yet at odds socially in the world and with himself. His personality, which Ed inhabited so brilliantly, was ultimately the guiding force... See more »