Sean Price Williams is an American cinematographer. Born in

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, he is based in

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Career

Williams is known for his textured, fluid camerawork (often handheld) and a heightened attention to available light. The '' New Yorker'' film critic Richard Brody described Williams (in a memorial appraisal of documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, for whom Williams served extensively as cameraman) as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary — including '' Frownland'', ''Yeast'', ''Fake It So Real'', ''

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feature '' Queen of Earth''." In a 2013 article for Film.com, critic Calum Marsh deemed Williams "micro-budget filmmaking's most exciting cinematographer." Marsh would go on to write in a 2014 article in Toronto's ''

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'' that "Williams, in particular, has proven indispensable to the

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movement, and over the past several years has distinguished dozens of the films with his all but peerless talent for photography, from experimental nonfiction work like Maiko Endo's ''Kuichisan'' to more conventional comedies like Bob Byington's '' Somebody Up There Likes Me''." Along with other celebrated figures of the New York independent film scene such as Perry, Kate Lyn Sheil, Robert Greene, Luke Oleksa, and

Michael M. Bilandic Michael M. Bilandic is an American film director, writer and producer, best known for his gritty New York City based microbudget comedies ''Hellaware'', ''Jobe'z World'' and ''Project Space 13 '' (2021). He is a frequent collaborator of the dire ...

, Williams was a long-time employee of famed New York video and music store Kim's Video and Music. In 2020, Williams began preparing for his feature film directorial debut, ''The Sweet East'' from a script by film critic Nick Pinkerton. The film will feature

Jacob Elordi Jacob Elordi (born 26 June 1997) is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Noah Flynn in Netflix's The Kissing Booth (film series), ''The Kissing Booth'' teen film franchise and Nate Jacobs in the HBO series ''Euphoria (American TV s ...

Filmography

Feature films

* '' Frownland'' (2007) * ''Yeast'' (2008) * '' Impolex'' (2009) * '' Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo'' (2009) * ''Mulberry Street'' (2010) * ''

'' (2011) * ''Kuichisan'' (2012) * '' Somebody Up There Likes Me'' (2012) * ''The Black Balloon'' (2012) * ''If You Take This'' (2014) * ''The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga'' (2014) * '' Listen Up Philip'' (2014) * ''Iris'' (2014) * ''Young Bodies Heal Quickly'' (2014) * ''

'' (2014) * '' Queen of Earth'' (2015) * '' Christmas, Again'' (2015) * ''Sin Alas'' (2015) * '' Kate Plays Christine'' (2016) * '' Good Time'' (2017) * '' Thirst Street'' (2017) * '' Golden Exits'' (2017) * '' Marjorie Prime'' (2017) * '' Wobble Palace'' (2018) * '' The Great Pretender'' (2018) * '' Her Smell'' (2018) * '' One Man Dies a Million Times'' (2019) * '' Tesla'' (2020) * '' Ainu Mosir'' (2020) * ''Zeros and Ones'' (2021) * '' Funny Pages'' (2022)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Price Williams, Sean American cinematographers People from Wilmington, Delaware Year of birth missing (living people) Living people