Joaquín Baca-Asay

Películas

Two Lovers
Director of Photography
Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) es un joven psicológicamente inestable que intenta recuperarse de su última crisis bajo la atenta mirada de sus padres. Inesperadamente entran en su vida dos mujeres: la encantadora y sencilla Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), hija del nuevo socio de su padre, y Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), una misteriosa vecina que parece no encajar en un barrio tan anodino.
La noche es nuestra
Director of Photography
Nueva York, 1988. La difusión de un nuevo tipo de droga va seguida de una aterradora oleada de crímenes. En inferioridad de condiciones frente a las viejas y nuevas bandas de traficantes, la policía pierde por término medio dos agentes al mes. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix), el encargado de un club de Brooklyn frecuentado por la mafia rusa, intenta mantenerse al margen del conflicto. Pero Bobby guarda un secreto: tanto su hermano, el teniente Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg) como su padre Burt Grusinsky (Robert Duvall) son policías. Su relación con ellos empeora cuando su padre le advierte que tarde o temprano tendrá que decidir de qué lado está.
Thumbsucker
Director of Photography
A pesar de sus 17 años, Justin Cobb (Lou Taylor Pucci) todavía se chupa el dedo. Consciente de que este hábito está trastornando su vida y la de sus padres (Tilda Swinton y Vincent D'Onofrio), intenta solucionar el problema por medio de la hipnosis.
P.S.
Director of Photography
Louise Harrington (Laura Linney) es una mujer divorciada que trabaja en el departamento de admisiones de la Universidad de Columbia. Tiene casi cuarenta años y lleva una vida rutinaria y monótona. Louise nunca se recuperó de la muerte de su novio del instituto, veinte años atrás. Pero, de repente, conoce un joven igual que él.
Cosa de hombres
Director of Photography
Comedia independiente ambientada en Manhattan sobre la guerra de los sexos. Campbell Scott es un cínico publicista que se cree un maesto en el arte de manipular a las mujeres. La llegada de su sobrino -aclamado debut de Jesse Eisenberg- a la ciudad, ansioso por perder la virginidad y por aprender de su tío cómo seducir a las mujeres, enseñará a este último que todavía tiene mucho que aprender acerca de lo que las féminas, y también los hombres, realmente quieren.
Super maderos
Cinematography
Cinco policiás del estado norteamericano de Vermont, nada reconocidos por sus superiores, crean situaciones de angustia entre los conductores de la autopista. Película escrita y protagonizada por un grupo de cómicos que se autodenomina como "Broken Lizard".
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.