Vanja Cernjul

出生 : , Croatia

略歴

Vanja Cernjul is a Croatian cinematographer working in the American film and television industry. In 1995, Cernjul earn a degree in cinematography from the Academy of Dramatic Arts at the University of Zagreb. In 1995, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the MFA program of the Tisch Graduate School of the Arts at New York University.

参加作品

Kick and Scream
Director of Photography
Kick and Scream follows the final half-hour of a marriage. Through the perspectives of wife, husband and their six-year-old child, where reality is intertwined with puppet play, we learn about their own truths, becoming less certain of our initial judgment of character.
Here Today
Director of Photography
Veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma Payge. Together, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
The Lamb
Director of Photography
Three kids spend the summer days the usual way: hanging out, snapchatting... and playing with their newly discovered pet.
パーフェクション
Director of Photography
かつて将来を有望視されていたが、母の介護の為にその夢をあきらめるしか無かった天才チェロ奏者が、母の死をきっかけに再び元恩師のもとに行くと、そこには既に成功した若い天才チェロ奏者が居た。
クレイジー・リッチ!
Director of Photography
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
Adult Beginners
Director of Photography
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
Handymen
Director of Photography
Keka is a virtuoso housewife who suffers because of the lethargy of her marriage with Baja, a concerned railway worker. To make things even worse, Keka is being seriously courted by Ilija, a handyman who is so clumsy that he produces apocalypse wherever he shows up. After Baja finally becomes aware of Ilija's intentions and after the two of them demolish Keka's home as a result of their clumsy showdowns, Keka decides to leave both of them and to go on a trip to the only place where she felt some happiness - to a small coastal village where she and Baja went on their honeymoon... However, things start to complicate because Keka falls under the scrutiny of Lujo, an untypical lonely fisherman-flirter. Baja and Ilija decide to go on a trip, to embark on the biggest adventure in their lives and to prove their love to Keka...
The English Teacher
Director of Photography
Teacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject, but her routine is forever altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father reenter her life.
天使の処刑人 バイオレット&デイジー
Director of Photography
まだ10代のバイオレットとデイジーは、ニューヨークでプロの殺し屋として簡単な仕事のみオファーを受けて、日々過ごしていた。ある日、彼女たちのもとに仲間のラスから報酬アップの簡単な仕事の依頼が舞い込んでくる。いったん断ったものの、二人は条件の良さにつられて引き受けることに。そして、標的のアパートに潜入する。
ファミリーズ・シークレット 秘密を抱えた家族
Director of Photography
夢を諦めきれない中年男性とそれぞれ秘密を抱える家族が織り成す人間模様を描いたハートフルコメディ。ニューヨーク、ブロンクス地区のシティ島に住むビンスは、刑務所で看守として働きながら、妻や大学生の長女、高校生の息子と平凡な暮らしを送っている。その一方で俳優になる夢をいまだに捨てきれず、家族に内緒で演技学校に通っていた。そんなある日、ビンスは勤務先の刑務所に新たに収監された囚人トニーが自分の隠し子だと気づく。トニーは母親と死別しており、唯一の親族であるビンスが身元を引き受けることに。家族にもトニー本人にも血の繋がりを明かさないまま、彼を自宅に連れて帰るが……。
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Director of Photography
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
The Mudge Boy
Director of Photography
Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the attention of his vacant father—struggles to fill the void brought on by his mother's sudden death.
アメリカン・サイコ2
Director of Photography
Rachel is a criminology student hoping to land a position as a teacher's assistant for professor Robert Starkman. She's sure this position will pave the way to an FBI career, and she's willing to do anything to obtain it -- including killing her classmates. The school psychiatrist, Dr. Daniels, becomes aware that Rachel is insane, but Rachel is skilled at her dangerous game of death and identity theft.
Ed Gein
Director of Photography
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen
The Photographer
Director of Photography
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
I'll Take You There
Director of Photography
A woman forces a man to move forward with his life after his wife dumps him.
Fishbelly White
Director of Photography
An awkward young farm boy undergoes a profound and painful rite of passage in Michael Burke's masterful drama of nascent sexuality and friendship. Ridiculed for his love of animals (his best friend is a chicken), the boy's acceptance by his peers requires a stunning choice.
Welcome to the Peak of Intelligence
Cinematography
A series of 14 static sequences of long durability followed by dazing rhythmic music composed especially for this video. Through video images travel across the landscape, which is on some places made artificially, with a scale models prepared for video, partially with 3D images, always entirely static, with lightening which is in some kind of conflict with scenes that enlightens.
Hand of the Master
Cinematography
A video on the edge between sci-fi, video clip and narration which is suggests tension of story and events, while at the same time real dramaturgy is neglected, and the plot line is followed by rhythmic music in real and electronically generated areas, accompanied by actors, maquettes, puppets and models.
Fuddy Meers
Director of Photography
A story of a woman who wakes up everyday with no memory and relives her past each day.