Luke Geissbühler
Luke Geissbühler | |
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| Born | January 21, 1970 |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Luke Geissbühler is an American cinematographer and producer, with a body of work based mostly on documentary works.[1][2]
Life and career
Luke Geissbühler, son of renowned graphic designer Steff Geissbühler, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television.[3] He has received an Academy Award nomination for his work as cinematographer and producer on the short film, Time Freak, as well as receiving an Emmy Award for Street Gang, HBO's 2021 documentary about the beginnings of Sesame Street. In 2010, Geissbühler built a homemade spacecraft with his son Max that quietly recorded a trip through the blackness of space and returned safely back to earth, as chronicled in the viral video, Space Balloon.[4]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Headless | Elizabeth Donius Amy C. Elliott |
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| 2000 | Killing Cinderella | Lisa Abbatiello | |
| 2001 | Acts of Worship | Rosemary Rodriguez | |
| 2003 | Season of Youth | Eric Perlmutter | |
| Justice | Evan Oppenheimer | ||
| 2004 | Mail Order Wife | Huck Botko Andrew Gurland |
Role: Film crew |
| 2005 | Alchemy | Evan Oppenheimer | |
| 2006 | East Broadway | Fay Ann Lee | With Toshiaki Ozawa |
| Borat | Larry Charles | With Anthony Hardwick | |
| Noon Blue Apples | Jay Lee | ||
| 2009 | The Magnificent Cooly-T | Stephen Leeds | |
| 2010 | The Virginity Hit | Huck Botko Andrew Gurland |
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| 2011 | The Speed of Thought | Evan Oppenheimer | |
| 2013 | The Frankenstein Theory | Andrew Weiner | Role: Luke Hill |
| 2014 | Bad Johnson | Huck Botko | |
| Alien Abduction | Matty Beckerman | ||
| Match | Stephen Belber | ||
| Grace | Heath Jones | ||
| Sun Belt Express | Evan Buxbaum | ||
| 2015 | Chloe and Theo | Ezna Sands | With Aaron Krummel and Peter Zeitlinger |
| 2017 | Stuck[5] | Michael Berry | |
| 2018 | Breaking Brooklyn | Paul Becker | |
| Time Freak | Andrew Bowler | ||
| 2020 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Jason Woliner | |
| 2022 | Follow Her | Sylvia Caminer | |
| 2023 | Robots | Casper Christensen Anthony Hines |
Also credited as co-producer |
| 2026 | Group: The Schopenhauer Effect | Alexis Lloyd | |
| 2027 | Out on a Limb | Evan Oppenheimer |
Direct-to-video
| Year | Title | Director | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control | Gil Junger | With Dave Perkal |
Television
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Group | Alexis Lloyd | 7 episodes |
| 2008 | A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa | Kirk Thatcher | TV movie |
Documentary works
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Three Days | Kevin Ford C.B. Smith (as Carter Smith) |
Shared credit with Kevin Ford and Steve Gainer |
| 2001 | The Party's Over | Rebecca Chalkin Donovan Leitch |
With Brian C. Long, Ben Weinstein, Kevin Ford, C.B. Smith (as Carter Smith) |
| 2005 | Squonkumentary | Peggy Sutton | |
| Bearing Witness | Barbara Kopple Bob Eisenhardt Marijana Wotton |
With Joan Churchill and Richard Connors | |
| 2007 | Helvetica | Gary Hustwit | Segment of Independent Lens |
| Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 | Ben Niles | Shared credit with Ben Niles, Geoff O'Brien and Ben Wolf | |
| 2009 | Charlie Haden | Reto Caduff | With Daniel Pfisterer |
| Beyond Our Differences | Peter Bisanz | With John Mans | |
| Objectified | Gary Hustwit | Segment of Independent Lens | |
| 2010 | Love Etc. | Jill Andresevic | |
| 2011 | Buck | Cindy Meehl | With Guy Mossman |
| Urbanized | Gary Hustwit | ||
| The Visual Language of Herbert Matter | Reto Caduff | With Daniel Pfisterer | |
| 2014 | A Lego Brickumentary[6] | Kief Davidson Daniel Junge |
With Robert Muratore and Aaron Phillips |
| 2015 | Country: Portraits of an American Sound | Steven Kochones | |
| 2016 | Workplace | Gary Hustwit | |
| Bruce Springsteen: In His Own Words | Nigel Cole | TV movie | |
| 2018 | Elvis Presley: The Searcher | Thom Zimny | |
| Fahrenheit 11/9 | Michael Moore | With Jayme Roy | |
| Rams | Gary Hustwit | ||
| 2019 | Funny You Never Knew | Andrew Hunt | With Manfred Reiff and Nancy Schreiber |
| Who's Next? | Nancy Cooperstein | Also credited as producer | |
| 2021 | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Marilyn Agrelo | |
| 2022 | Keeper of Time | Michael Culyba | With Ben Wolf |
| 2023 | Apes Together Strong | Finley Mulligan Quinn Mulligan |
Shared credit with Finley Mulligan and Zach Voytas |
| Ron Delsener Presents | Jake Sumner | ||
| 2024 | Vice Is Broke | Eddie Huang | |
| Takin' Care of Business | Tyler Measom | ||
| 2026 | Pandamonium | Addison O'Dea | With Will Pugh and Lars Skree |
Television
Reality TV
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | America's Next Top Model | Cycle 1 | |
| 2005 | Inner Chef with Marcus Samuelsson | Irad Eyal |
Documentary series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Suite with Dave Karger | Himself | |
| Party Girl | Irad Eyal Marla Puccetti |
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| 2006 | Sensing Murder | Penny Fearon Lisa Bloch Mark Mori |
3 episodes; Also directed episodes "Missing Teens" and "Prairie Predator" |
| 2007-2009 | Independent Lens | Ela Troyano Gary Hustwit |
3 segments |
| 2013 | Drunk History | Jeremy Konner | Episode "Boston" |
| 2013-2015 | Newsreaders | ||
| 2017 | Abstract: The Art of Design | Richard Press | Episodes "Paula Scher: Graphic Design" and "Platon: Photography" |
| Killing Richard Glossip | Joe Berlinger Kevin Huffman |
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| 2018 | Who Is America? | ||
| Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers |
Joe Berlinger | 6 episodes | |
| The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show | Dee Koppang O'Leary | TV special | |
| Wrong Man | |||
| 2023 | The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre | ||
| 2024 | Odysseus Returns | Seth Ward James Younger |
Miniseries
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio | Joe Berlinger Catharine Park |
| 2022 | Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes | Joe Berlinger |
| 2023 | Who Killed Robert Wone? | Jared P. Scott |
| I Wanna Rock: The '80s Metal Dream | Tyler Measom | |
| 2025-2026 | The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets | Jared P. Scott |
References
- ↑ "Watch: 4 Tips from Oscar-Nominated DP Luke Geissbühler on Cinematography and Being 'In Pursuit of the Light'". nofilmschool.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ↑ "Talking Cinematography at TFF 2014". tribecafilm.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ↑ "50th NYU First Run Student Film Festival" (PDF). tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ↑ "In a Takeout Container, a Trek to the Stratosphere". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ↑ "How They Did It: Feature Film Stuck is a Musical Set Entirely in an NYC Subway Train". moviemaker.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ↑ "4 Highlights from Tribeca Film Festival Cinematographers Masterclass". indiewire.com. Retrieved February 10, 2021.