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. His work from this time was included in MoMA’s survey on the history of 8mm and has been recently preserved by The Warhol Foundation and Anthology Film Archives. In 1984 he traveled to Berlin to shoot the Rosa Von Praunheim produced Vampire Film, Der Bis directed by Marianne Enzensberger. Beginning n 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 his career took on directing commercials and music videos (for Iggy Pop, Malcolm McLaren, REM, B52s / Apple, Nike, Coke, etc.). In 1989 he co-founded the production company Epoch Films with Mindy Goldberg. Since that time he has produced a serial project of installations exhibited at MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MOCA Los Angels, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Musée dʼart Moderne de la Ville Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam.
