BOBBY BUKOWSKI

Born: 1953, New York City, USA, as Robert Bukowski.

Education: The State University of New York, Stony Brook [campus] [Biochemistry]; Graduate Film Program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Career: En route to medical school, Bukowski set his gaze upon more artistic endeavors. He left the United States for extensive travel in Europe and Asia. This adventure led to a job as photographer's assistant in Paris. Soon after, he was enlisted to archive a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage, led by the Dalai Lama, to all the sacred Buddhist sites along the Ganges River. This marked the first time he had a movie camera in his hand.

Ph commercials dir by Michel Gondry [for Air France], Mark Pellington, a.o.

Teaches at the Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore.

Awards: 'Genie' Award nom [2008] for 'The Stone Angel'.

FILMS

1984	The Way It Is/Euridice on the Avenues [Eric Mitchell] b&w
1985	Fei fat yi man/Fei fa yi min/Illegal Immigrant [Wanting Zhang & Mabel Cheung] c
1986	Anna [Yurek Bogayevicz] c
1987	Not Just Any Flower [Terry DeRoy Gruber] c; short/10m
1987	Kiss Daddy Good Night [Peter Ily Huemer] 16mm-35bu/c
1987	Lola la loca [Enrique Olivier] c
1988	Slipping Into Darkness [Eleanor Gaver] c; addph; ph: Loren Bivens
1988	Mortal Sins/[Dangerous] [Divine] Obsession/God's Payroll [Yuri Sivo] 16mm/c
1989	Thousand Pieces of Gold/Gold Mountain [Nancy Kelly] c
1989	Men of Respect [William Reilly] c; addph: Dan Shulman; 2uc: Dan Shulman & Joseph Dell'Olio
1990	Dogfight [Nancy Savoca (replaced Michael Dinner)] c
1990	Shakes the Clown [Bob Goldthwait] c; cph: Elliot Davis; addph: Edward J. Pei
1992	Household Saints [Nancy Savoca] c; addph: Michael Spiller, Joe D'Alessandro & Peter Nelson
1992	Golden Gate [John Madden] c
1993	The Silent Alarm [Rob Morrow] c; short/28m; ph Seattle: Frank Prinzi; 2uc: Troy Smith & (Seattle) David Frederick
1993	Holy Matrimony [Leonard Nimoy] c; hph: Frank Holgate
1994	Search and Destroy/The Four Rules [David Salle] c; cph: Michael Spiller; 2uc: Joe DeSalvo
1994	The Tie That Binds [Wesley Strick] c; 2uc: Chris Squires; aph: Michael Benson
1995	[The Adventures of] Tom and Huck/Tom Sawyer [Peter Hewitt] p/c
1995	'Til There Was You [Scott Winant] c
1996	The Last Time I Committed Suicide [Stephen Kay] b&w-c
1996	Going All the Way [Mark Pellington] c; 2uc: Mike Latino & Eric Schmidt
1998	Arlington Road [Mark Pellington] p/c; 2uc: Scott Smith
1998	The Minus Man [Hampton Fancher] c; 2uc: Eric Schmidt
1998	Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory [Mark Pellington] c/V; mus doc/45m
1999	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia [Rob Schmidt] c
2000	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 [Joe Berlinger] DigiBeta+35mm-to-35mm/c; New York ph; ph: Nancy Schreiber
2000	Tangled/Conspiracy of Weeds [Jay Lowi] c
2001	The Moment After [Gerald McCullouch] c; short/13m
2002	Easy Six/Easy Sex [Chris Iovenko] c
2002	Saved! [Brian Dannelly] c; 2uc: Todd Elyzen
2003	Boogeyman [Stephen Kay] c; cph: Jürg Walther
2003	The Dying Gaul [Craig Lucas] c; 2uc: Alan Caudillo
2004	The Hawk Is Dying [Julian Goldberger] s16-35bu/c
2005	Lying [M. Blash] v-to-35mm/c
2005	Glass House: The Good Mother [Steve Antin] c/V
2006	The Tripper [David Arquette] c
2006	The Stone Angel [Kari Skogland] s35/c
2007	The Guitar [Amy Redford] c
2007	Take Me Home Tonight/Kids in America [Michael Dowse] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc; ph: Terry Stacey; released 2011
2007	Fathom [Vladimir Jedlicka] s16/c; short/7m
2007	Phoebe in Wonderland [Daniel Barnz] s35/c
2007	The Pagan Queen/The Crown of Vysehrad [Constantin Werner] c
2008	The Messenger [Oren Moverman] s35/c
2008	Face Value [Amy Redford] in development; status unknown
2009	Locked In [Suri Krishnamma] s35/c; 2uc UK: David Smith
2010	The Ledge [Matthew Chapman] c; 2uc: Yaron Levy; addph: Hilda Mercado
2010	Mighty Fine [Debbie Goodstein] s16-35bu (+ D-Cinema)/c
2010	Ghett'a Life [Chris Browne] c
2010	Rampart [Oren Moverman] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c
2011	Phoenix [Amy Redford] pre-production
2011	Blinders [Jacob Brown] c; short/10m
2011	Struck by Lightning [Brian Dannelly] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c
2011	The Iceman [Ariel Vromen] pre-production; scheduled to start filming in December
2012	Chronicle [Jay Alaimo] pre-production

TELEVISION

1988	Life Under Water [Jay Holman] tvm/60m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1988	Andre's Mother [Deborah Reinisch] tvm/50m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1989	[Vaclav Havel's] Largo Desolato [Jiri Zizka] tvm; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances'
1990	Without Warning: The James Brady Story [Michael Toshiyuki Uno] tvm
1991	Fool's Fire [Julie Taymor] tvm/53m; 2uc: Mark Harrison; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1992	Ethan Frome [John Madden] tvm; addph: Joseph Celeste & Daniel Shulman
1992	Great Performances' 20th Anniversary Special [Ernest Dickerson, Paul Bogart, Twyla Tharp, a.o.] special/90m; ph seg 'Kiss, Kiss Dahlings' dir by Gerald Gutierrez & 'The Last Mile' dir by Paul Bogart; other ph: Ernest Dickerson, Daniel Stoloff, Michael Negrin, a.o.; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances'
1992	Oedipus Rex [Julie Taymor] opera/b&w-c/58m; addph: James McCalmont; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances'
1996	If These Walls Could Talk [seg '1974' dir by Nancy Savoca] tvm; other ph: Ellen Kuras ('1952' dir by Nancy Savoca) & John Stanier ('1996' dir by Cher)
1997	Destination Anywhere/Midnight in Chelsea [Mark Pellington] tvm/45m; 2uc: Jamie Livingston
2001	Wasted [Stephen Kay] tvm
2004	Dark Shadows [P.J. Hogan] unsold pilot
2004	Weeds [pilot 'You Can't Miss the Bear' dir by Brian Dannelly] series, 2005-present; 1st season, 2005
2005	Weeds [ep #2 'Free Goat' dir by Brian Dannelly, #3 'Good Shit Lollipop' dir by Craig Zisk, #4 'Fashion of the Christ' dir by Burr Steers, #5 'Lude Awakening' dir by Lee Rose, #6 'Dead in the Nethers' dir by Arlene Sanford & #7 'Higher Education' dir by Tucker Gates] 1st season, 2005; other ph: Feliks Parnell (3 ep); see 2004
2005	The Hunt for the BTK Killer [Stephen Kay] tvm
2006	Help Me Help You [various] 13-part (4 unaired) series; other ph: Michael A. Price
2011	The 2-2/Rookies [James Mangold] pilot/HD (ARRI ALEXA)

MISCELLANEOUS

1986	Street Trash [Jim Muro] 2nd c.asst; ph: David Sperling
1987	Force of Circumstance [Liza Bear] co-2nd c.op; ph: Zoran Hochstätter
2001	Texas Boogie Woogie [Flavin Judd; short/19m] co-thanks; ph: Richard Rutkowski