Ava Benjamin Shorr

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Ava Benjamin Shorr is an American cinematographer based in Los Angeles, California. She was raised by a Mormon mother and a Jewish father in Portland, Oregon.

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Gussy
Director of Photography
As children, Miles and Rocky hunted a monster they thought they saw in the woods. Twenty years later, they're still searching.
XConfessions 29
Director of Photography
XConfessions volume 29 is here! We're bringing you 6 of our latest most tantalizing movies based on your fantasies. This volume has everything from steamy cooking shows to soaking wet gang bangs! Included: Cosmic Connections; Eau De Pussy; Wash Me; The Cooking Show; The Smell of You; Scorpio Season
Baja Come Down
Director of Photography
Charlie and Hannah can't say it out loud, but they both know their relationship is coming to an end. As a last ditch effort, the two head south with Hannah's cat, along the dusty coast of Baja California. There they discover not only a new world, but that the troubles between them can't remain dormant for much longer.
A Puff Before Dying
Director of Photography
A wild night of drugs and drugged up driving ends in tragedy for three teenage girls that happen to be marionettes.
Gossamer Folds
Director of Photography
In 1986, ten-year-old Tate Millikin is forced to spend a lonely summer witnessing the breakup of his parents' marriage. Tate eventually befriends his new next-door neighbors - recently retired English professor, Edward Bryant and his transgender daughter, Gossamer. Despite his father’s knee-jerk transphobia and his mother’s misplaced protectiveness, Tate forms a deep friendship with fellow misfit Gossamer, that changes his and their familys life.
디스클로저
Director of Photography
할리우드는 트랜스 커뮤니티에 어떤 영향을 끼쳤을까. 그 빛과 그늘을 조명하는 다큐멘터리. 선도적인 트랜스 창작자와 사상가들이 진솔한 견해와 분석을 들려준다.
Conspiracy Cruise
Director of Photography
A cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board.
Framing Agnes
Assistant Camera
In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.
Sisters
Cinematography
A troubled woman reconnects with her sister following a close encounter with extraterrestrial forces.
Las Gitanas
Director of Photography
Las Gitanas follows a group of hustlers as they dance their way through a night in Los Angeles, seducing lonely targets to expose their weaknesses and their wallets. It explores chance interactions amongst disparate souls and the common pulse that binds them.
Pointing to the Sun and Laughing (On a Stack of Poems)
Director of Photography
A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.
MetaVision
Cinematography
A case of mistaken identity leads a young slacker to self-destruction after being subliminally hypnotized by a mysterious underground organization.
Ava & Bianca
Herself
Ava Benjamin Schorr and Bianca Cline are cinematographers who also happen to be trans women. The film explores who they are beyond their trans identity, what it means to be a female cinematographer and last but certainly not least, what it means to be a woman in this moment in time.