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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. In 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, he began directing commercials and music videos (for Iggy Pop, Malcolm McLaren, REM, B52s / Apple, Nike, Coke, etc.), and in 1989 he co-founded the production company Epoch Films with Mindy Goldberg. 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 narrative feature LOW DOWN won at the Sundance Film Festival for cinematography. Preiss is currently in preproduction on a second feature film. His work has been shown at institutions across the world, including MoMA, MOCA Los Angeles, The Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Hessel Museum, Anthology Film Archives, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Musée dʼart Moderne de la Ville Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam.

James Grissom wrote Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog (Knopf), which The Wall Street Journal called "the best book on Williams." Tennessee Williams, that is. He is now working on a novel and he contributes to Air Mail. He has worked with Bruce Weber for various publications, including Les Hommes Publics, Icon, and his own All-American, where he wrote about Marlon Brando and Brad Gooch.

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Supported by a Humanities New York Action Grant

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