[At camera] - 1992

               

 ERIC ALAN EDWARDS

Born: 10 August 1953, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Education: Catlin Gabel School, Portland; Rhode Island School of Design [BFA in 1975].

Career: His relationship with dir Gus Van Sant dates back to his high-school days.

Ph numerous music videos with a: Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, a.o.

Awards: Independent Spirit Award nom [1992; shared] for 'My Own Private Idaho'.

Website: Eric Alan Edwards



 FILMS

1971

The Happy Organ [Gus Van Sant] 16mm/b&w; short/20m; made at high school

1978

Property [Penny Allen] c

1979

Paydirt [Penny Allen] c

197?

Brats on the Mountain [Tom Shaw] children's feature; filmed, but unreleased

1982

American Taboo [Steve Lustgarten (SL)] 16mm/c; cph: SL, Lee Nesbit & Mark Whitney

1983

Last Night at the Alamo [Eagle Pennell] 16mm/b&w; cph: Brian Haberman; + small part/still ph

1985

Mala Noche/Bad Night [Gus Van Sant] 16mm/b&w-c; addph; ph: John Campbell

1986

Resan/The Journey/Die Reise [Peter Watkins & Markus Imhoof] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/873m (19 chapters); also 50m & 92m versions; ph Portland; other ph: Odd-Geir Sæther (Norway), Skip Roessel (Utica, NY), Jaems Grant (Tahiti & Australia), Hans Liechti, Jan Pester (Glasgow), a.o.

1986

Five Ways to Kill Yourself/Five Naked Boys and a Gun [Gus Van Sant] 16mm/b&w; short/3m

1988

Speed Demon [Will Vinton] c; anim music video/12m; cph: Charlie Rehwalt; seq of Michael Jackson's mus anthology 'Moonwalker'

1988

Drugstore Cowboy [Gus Van Sant] c; 2uc; ph: Robert Yeoman

1989

A Matter of Degrees [W.T. Morgan] c; co-addph; ph: Paul Ryan

1990

My Own Private Idaho [Gus Van Sant] c; cph: John Campbell; spph: Bruce Weber; + still ph

1992

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues [Gus Van Sant] c; cph: John Campbell

1993

Gift [Perry Farrell & Casey Niccoli] c

1993

El jardín del Edén/The Garden of Eden [María Novaro] c

1994

To Die for [Gus Van Sant] c

1994

Kids [Larry Clark] c

1995

Flirting with Disaster [David O. Russell] c

1996

Cop Land [James Mangold] c; 2uc: Igor Sunara; uwph: Pete Romano

1997

Clay Pigeons [David Dobkin] c; 2uc: Richard Rutkowski

1997

Ballad of the Skeletons/Allen Ginsberg -Skeleton Poem [Gus Van Sant] c; short/4m

1997

Another Day in Paradise [Larry Clark] c

1998

Sarah McLachlan: Mirrorball [Sophie Muller] c; mus doc/114m

1998

God's Clowns [Steve Sandoz] c; short/13m

1998

The Debtors [Evi Quaid] c; 2uc New York: John A. Corso

1999

On the Edge/Catch the Sun/The Smiling Suicide Club [John Carney] c

2000

The Writers' Model [Dianna Turner] c; short/12m

2000

The Slaughter Rule [Alex & Andrew Smith] ts/c; addph: Michael Bucher; 2uc: Giles Dunning

2001

Crossroads [Tamra Davis] c

2002

How to Deal [Clare Kilner] c

2002

Elephant [Gus Van Sant] c; time-lapse ph; ph: Harris Savides

2003

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things [Asia Argento] s16-35bu/c; replaced doph Matthew Libatique

2004

The Gun Man [John Breen] c; short/12m

2004

Quietness of Copper [Rebecca A. Rodriguez] c; short/7m

2005

First Snow [Mark Fergus] c; 2nd cinematographer: Philip C. Pfeiffer

2005

The Break-Up [Peyton Reed] c; 2uc: Joe 'Jody' Williams; aph: David Norris

2006

Knocked Up [Judd Apatow] c; 2uc: Josh Bleibtreu; aph: David B. Nowell

2007

Winged Creatures/Fragments [Rowan Woods] c

2007

The King of Texas [Rene Pinnell] dv/c; doc/75m; cph: R. Pinnell, Claire Huie, a.o.

2007

Management [Stephen Belber] c

2008

Love Happens/Traveling [Brandon Camp] c; concert ph: Mitchell Amundsen; uncred 2uc: Peter F. Woeste; aph: Michael FitzMaurice; uwph: Ian Seabrook

2008

Couples Retreat [Peter Billingsley] s35-to-35mm/c; 2uc: Patrick Loungway; aph: Hans Bjerno

2009

Wetlands [Carl Vandervoort] c; doc/52m; co-addph; ph: C. Vandervoort

2009

What's Wrong with Virginia [Dustin Lance Black] c; 2uc: Richard Rutkowski

2010

Shelf Life [at Powell's City of Books] [Lisa Day] c; doc/78m; addph: Jeff Streich

2010

Stok Stalk Stock [Bruce Coleman] c; concert film (+ dram seq)/64m

2010

The Change-Up [David Dobkin] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Patrick Capone

2011

Lovelace [Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman] c


 TELEVISION

1990

Moving Mountains: The Story of the Yiu Mien [Elain Velazquez] doc/58m; cph: John J. Campbell & Harry Dawson

1991

America's Missing Children [Charles A. Bangert] special/60m; cph: Geoff Dills, Jeff Wayman, a.o.

2000

[Oprah Winfrey Presents:] Amy and Isabelle [Lloyd Kramer] tvm; 2uc: Richard Rutkowski

2011

Five [seg 'Mia' dir by Jennifer Aniston] tvm/87m/HD (ARRI ALEXA)+RED; 5 seg; other ph: Tami Reiker (seg 'Charlotte' dir by Demi Moore), Guy Livneh (seg 'Pearl' dir by Patty Jenkins), Christopher Popp (seg 'Cheyanne' dir by Penelope Spheeris) & Jim Orr (seg 'Lili' dir by Alicia Keys)


 MISCELLANEOUS

1982

Unhinged [Don Gronquist] co-c.asst; ph: Richard Blakeslee

1989

Love at Large [Alan Rudolph] co-add c.op; ph Elliot Davis

1993

The Look of the Year [Marina Sargenti; tv-doc] co-c.op; ph: Robert Brinkmann

2006

Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag [Jan Haaken; doc/84m] co-c.op (+ co-prod cons); ph: Heather Mosher & Caleb Heymann

2008

The Road [John Hillcoat] c.op 'b' cam addph; ph: Javier Aguirresarobe