Harlan Bosmajian

Historia

Harlan Bosmajian has been the director of photography on 30 feature films and several TV series. His career began after shooting the black and white film La Ciudad for which he received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Independent Spirit Awards and won Best Cinematography at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. He shot one of the first high-def TV series, Strangers with Candy, as well as one of the first high-def films to get a theatrical release, titled Lovely and Amazing. Bosmajian has shot movies in all film/video formats from 16mm black and white to the Red One camera, and has taught camera and lighting classes in New York, Los Angeles, and The Sundance Labs.

Películas

Bliss
Director of Photography
Part 2 of the Virgil Bliss trilogy, Bliss picks up Virgil's story 20 years later in the deserts of Southern California where a fugitive Virgil scratches out a meager existence as an Oxy-addicted stable hand.
A pedazos
Director of Photography
Cuando un dramaturgo de Broadway encuentra el manuscrito perdido de su amigo muerto, aprovecha la oportunidad para transformar su vida y usa el manuscrito como propio.
Any Day
Director of Photography
Un ex-luchador encuentra la redención de su pasado turbulento
My Man Is a Loser
Director of Photography
Dos hombres casados contratan a un amigo mujeriego para que les ayude a recuperar su atractivo y salvar sus matrimonios. Sin embargo, las clases comienzan a resultar algo contraproducentes, ya que las nuevas versiones de sus maridos son peores que las antiguas.
Volver A Empezar
Director of Photography
When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.
Occupant
Director of Photography
25 year old Danny Hill's grandmother just died giving Danny the chance to move into her enormous rent controlled apartment in Manhattan. Danny must lock himself in for twelve days before he can take over the lease. There's just one problem -- he may not be the only occupant.
Life in Flight
Director of Photography
A successful New York architect with a beautiful wife and an adoring young son is forced to reevaluate his outwardly idyllic life after a chance meeting with an urban designer reveals the cracks in the foundation of his paradise.
Weakness
Director of Photography
About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
Coach
Director of Photography
A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
See You in September
Cinematography
Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. But when her pals dare her to date fellow group member A.J., Lindsay begins to wonder if she's finally found her match.
The Other End of the Line
Director of Photography
An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
Starting Out in the Evening
Director of Photography
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
Juventud salvaje (A story of a teenager)
Director of Photography
Secuela de la película de 2005 Caos (Havoc). Un grupo de adolescentes tienen un pacto: sólo se pueden relacionar entre ellos. Salvo contadas excepciones no podrán estar con nadie de fuera. El problema viene cuando uno de ellos se enamora de alguien ajeno al grupo. Esto no se considera una excepción permitida y la líder está dispuesta a hacerle ver que es completamente inviable abandonar para irse con alguien que no pertenece a su "familia".
Retorno a Rajapur
Director of Photography
Un amor florece con el fondo hermoso y exótico de los desiertos de la India en este drama romántico. Samantha Hartley (Kelli Garner) es una mujer de unos veinte años que viaja a Rajapur en la India para visitar una ciudad, donde su madre estuvo durante años. Allí Samantha se entera de la verdadera historia sobre el matrimonio tormentoso de su madre con Jeremy (Justin Theroux). Sólo unos días después de su boda, Sara empezó a preguntarse si casarse con Jeremy fue un error, y durante su visita a la India en su luna de miel, Sara se reunió con Jai Singh (Manoj Bajpai), un viudo guapo y sensible en Rajapur. Jai Singh pronto entabla una amistad con Sara, que rápidamente se convierte en un romance, pero ambos son conscientes de la naturaleza transgresora de su amor, y su relación toma un giro trágico, que deja marcas en todas las partes involucradas.
Live Free or Die
Director of Photography
It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. In small-town, hard-scrabble New Hampshire, foul-mouthed all-talk slacker John "Rugged" Rudgate fancies himself a criminal. When a local plumber stares him down at a pub, Rugged vows revenge, pouring brake fluid in the man's water supply. When the man dies from unrelated causes, Rugged and his side-kick, the even dimmer Jeff, try to cover up what they think i
Ira & Abby
Director of Photography
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
David & Layla
Director of Photography
Inspired by a true story, sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York. David (David Moscow), TV host of "Sex & Happiness", becomes smitten with the voluptuous Layla (Shiva Rose) - a mysterious, sensual dancer who turns out to be a refugee. David's reckless pursuit of Layla sets off an unveiling of the similarities and contrasts of their ancient cultures. His lust grows into love as he discovers in stunning Layla a sensitive, intelligent war survivor with a rich culture that echoes his own. But their families are dead set against their unlikely romance. Faced with deportation, Layla must choose.
New York City
Director of Photography
Narra cinco historias independientes ocurridas tras la tragedia del 11 de septiembre en Nueva York.
Shooting Livien
Director of Photography
Negro drama psicológico. Shooting Livien explora la psicología interna de John Livien, un desilusionado músico neoyorquino que se enfrenta a un trauma de su infancia reclamando un alter ego. Con su banda al borde del éxito, la fantasía se vuelve peligrosamente borrosa con la realidad y se ve como Livien lucha contra su crisis de identidad. En la cima de su locura Livien decide llevar a su demencia a los lugares más lejanos ...
Guardando las apariencias
Director of Photography
Para Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang, neoyorquina de 28 años, la vida es una representación de juegos malabares entre una prometedora carrera como cirujana y sus responsabilidades como hija obediente. Al igual que la línea 7 del metro que la lleva a visitar a su familia china una vez por semana, Wil está permanentemente en tránsito entre dos mundos. Las expectativas de la sociedad de Flushing, Queens, de la que procede, y su propio deseo de alejarse de ella han logrado que Wil esté satisfecha con la vida paralela que ha optado llevar, a pesar de que ello conlleve un involuntario juego de charadas con su madre viuda y el viejo mundo que ésta representa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Winter Solstice
Director of Photography
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Kill the Poor
Director of Photography
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
A Touch of Fate
Director of Photography
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for the sixth sense who struggles with the death of his father and overbearing love of his single mother. When the past and future suddenly bind these people together on a journey of need, forgiveness and discovery, they realize they've gained something when they least expected it
Lovely & Amazing
Director of Photography
Historia de una madre y sus tres hijas. La madre (Blethyn) vive obsesionada con la idea de perder peso para atraer a los hombres. La hermana mayor (Keener) es víctima de un desgraciado matrimonio. Lamediana (Mortimer) es una actriz insegura cuya carrera parece que empieza a despegar. Y la menor (Raven Goodwin), al ser hija adoptiva, parece que puede ser la única capaz de escapar a un legado familiar basado en la ansiedad y el retraimiento.
Virgil Bliss
Director of Photography
Fresh out of a long stretch in prison, Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) vows to go straight in this gritty, character-driven drama. But finding a job, a wife and a sense of purpose doesn't come easy when you're living in a halfway house surrounded by junkies and thugs. Things start to look up when Virgil falls for Ruby (Kirsten Russell), a prostitute and fellow lost soul, but her drug addiction stands in the way of his shot at a normal life.
Spin the Bottle
Director of Photography
When five childhood friends reunite for a weekend in the country, old jealousies resurface, sexual debauchery ensues, and it quickly becomes clear that time may not heal all wounds...
The City
Director of Photography
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Angel Passing
Cinematography
An aging concert pianist in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimers, revisits his past. When he comes back to his home, now occupied by an artist, a touching bond develops for a few moments between them. Two strangers, one asking for forgiveness about his past, the other with the ability to forgive in her own life. A touching short, with very few words but deeply portrayed feelings.