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Jeff Preiss is a New York-based filmmaker, cinematographer, and visual artist active since the 1980s. A founding member of the experimental gallery Orchard and former co-director of Films Charas, Preiss’ work spans narrative and experimental cinema, with films preserved by Anthology Film Archives and the Andy Warhol Foundation. His projects have been shown internationally at venues including ICA, London and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and have involved collaborations with artists such as Joan Jonas, Andrea Fraser, Josiah McElheny, and Anthony McCall. He was Director of Photography for Bruce Weber’s ‘Let’s Get Lost’ (1989), and his 2014 feature Low Down won the Sundance Cinematography Award. Currently on the board of Light Industry, his film ‘The Secret World’ (2023), made in collaboration with the artist Josiah McElheny, was screened at MoMA in 2024.