Jay Keitel

Jay Keitel

Birth : , Northern California, USA

History

Jay Keitel is an American film cinematographer. He attended the Northwest Film Center in Portland and holds a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts.

Profile

Jay Keitel

Movies

She Dies Tomorrow
Director of Photography
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
One Brick at a Time: Making the LEGO Batman Movie
Director of Photography
Documentary on the Lego Batman Movie.
One Brick at a Time: Making the LEGO Batman Movie
Camera Operator
Documentary on the Lego Batman Movie.
Phoenix Forgotten
Director of Photography
20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
The Frontier
Director of Photography
A desperate young woman, on the run from the law, takes a job at a remote desert motel. She quickly discovers the motel's patrons are rendezvousing after a large robbery. With nothing to lose, and all to gain, she hatches a plan to steal their loot.
Paperback
Director of Photography
A pizza cook who's never left his college town meets the woman of his dreams before finding out there's a huge roadblock to them being together.
The Sideways Light
Director of Photography
Lily is haunted by memories while her mother, Ruth, loses her own.
When We Lived in Miami
Director of Photography
Filmed in Miami during Hurricane Isaac, 'When We Lived in Miami' is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart.
Leave Me Like You Found Me
Director of Photography
After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the majestic landscape, they begin to revisit their past relationship. As cracks start to show each is left wondering whether the other has changed enough to make it work this time.
Sun Don't Shine
Director of Photography
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
Remigration
First Assistant Camera
Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collar labor isn't obsolete, but it's scarce. The city has created a program to "remigrate" long-gone working class families from their inland homes back to the city that once pushed them out. Kaya, Helen, and Naomi return to San Francisco and join a handful of other potential remigrants for a tour of what can be expected in their new lives. But can they learn to trust their old home once again?
The Anchorage
First Assistant Camera
This enigmatic, mysterious minimalist feature, a collaboration between CalArts graduate C.W. Winter and photographer Anders Edström, combines elements of narrative fiction, documentary, and even installation art in depicting the daily routine of Ulla, a middle-aged woman living in self-sufficient isolation on a wild island on the Stockholm archipelago.
The Violent Kind
Camera Operator
One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" seemingly from the 1950's descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.
Cryptic
Director of Photography
A girl whose family is in crisis finds a time shifting way to help herself.
Kid Icarus
Jay
18-year-old Leigh lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, attends community college, has no real friends and works part time at Home Depot. With an obsession for Steven Spielberg and enrolled in a film production class, he sets out to make his cinematic debut. He hopes the film will be his ticket out of his mundane life and into a world of popularity, women and success. And he just may be on his way, if he doesn't self-destruct first.
Black Dragon Canyon
Writer
A sci-fi western.
Black Dragon Canyon
Director
A sci-fi western.