Joaquín Baca-Asay

Movies

Two Lovers
Director of Photography
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
We Own the Night
Director of Photography
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Thumbsucker
Director of Photography
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.
P.S.
Director of Photography
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Roger Dodger
Director of Photography
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
Super Troopers
Cinematography
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.
Paperboys
Director of Photography
Training his lens on a once ubiquitous but now fading slice of Americana, documentarian Mike Mills profiles six paperboys who call Stillwater, Minn., home. Featuring interviews and footage of the youngsters pedaling through their daily rounds, the film is a paradigm of America's changing face as adults assume a role formerly filled by pubescent entrepreneurs.
Two Ninas
Director of Photography
After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric interests as Marty, but she has grow gun-shy from one too many bad relationships. Blonde bombshell Nina Harris literally knocks Marty off his feet in an ill-fated attempt at snagging a cab.
Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing
Director of Photography
Artist Mike Mills follows the French electronic duo AIR on their 1998 Moon Safari tour. The ennui of travel and waiting to perform is broken up by several Godard-ian segments of philosophical Q+A with everyday people
Coming Soon
Cinematography
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.
The Architecture of Reassurance
Director of Photography
Dissatisfied with life at home, a young girl travels through other residences in her suburban neighborhood. She does what all of us would like to do: experience the domestic stories being played out by our neighbors. This tale is a voyeurist's paradise.
Chocolate For Breakfast
Cinematography
Four very different female roommates try to stick together while dealing with hectic daily schedules that living in New York City often conditions.
Dead Broke
Director of Photography
A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn. A motley assortment of suspects includes the employees of the agency.
Low
Cinematography
A towel boy at a Brooklyn boxing gym kidnaps a woman to impress an ex-boxer.