Bill Kirstein

Filmes

Meninas Malvadas
Director of Photography
A adolescente Cady Heron foi educada na África pelos seus pais cientistas. Quando sua família se muda para o subúrbio, nos Estados Unidos, Cady começa a frequentar a escola pública e recebe uma rápida introdução às leis de popularidade que dividem seus colegas. Sem querer, ela acaba no meio de um grupo de elite de estudantes apelidadas “as poderosas”.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022
Cinematography
On December 11, 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s solo piano performance will be streamed in the form of a concert. However, what we will experience that day is carefully recorded footage of Sakamoto performing a few pieces of music each day over the course of a week, that was then thoughtfully edited together. This is last performance.
Fragments of Paradise
Director of Photography
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film in the United States. Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries-including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.
Sisters with Transistors
Director of Photography
Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.
Almost a Year
Cinematography
As the coronavirus pandemic progresses, the overlapping routines of three New Yorkers change unexpectedly.
A Alma da América
Director of Photography
Documentário que examina o passado dos Estados Unidos para oferecer uma visão de sua situação política e histórica atual.
Marriage Story
Producer
An auto-fiction under the eyes of a female Christ, a marriage as a step into the forbidden land of the holy, a lesbian poem in the language of the divine, a paean to the color red, the world's slowest rave.
The Chicken
Director of Photography
On an unseasonably hot day in November, Hiro, a Japanese immigrant in New York City, decides to butcher a live chicken for dinner. While showing his visiting cousin Kei around, the pair encounter a medical emergency on the street. After they mishandle the situation and end up causing more harm than good, Hiro cannot bring himself to kill the chicken. Throughout, Kei observes his cousin’s new lifestyle as Hiro and his pregnant wife prepare for their move to Chinatown. As the day wears on, Hiro and Kei’s actions highlight how their lives are complicit in the structural violence that surrounds them.
So Pretty
Director of Photography
A história de Tonio/Tonia e Franz, Paul e Erika se desenrola na cena queer de Nova York. Uma história de ativismo político e diferentes modelos de amor: trata-se de uma adaptação, tradução e nova leitura de “So Schön,” o romance de Ronald M. Schernikau dos anos 80.
So Pretty
Producer
A história de Tonio/Tonia e Franz, Paul e Erika se desenrola na cena queer de Nova York. Uma história de ativismo político e diferentes modelos de amor: trata-se de uma adaptação, tradução e nova leitura de “So Schön,” o romance de Ronald M. Schernikau dos anos 80.
Common Structure
Director
Amongst fragmentary recollections of friendship and the sublime, two friends explore changing priorities in a world that is quickly slipping away.
Fuck Work
Director of Photography
Identity and performance, resistance and submission, and monotony and quiet rage crash into one another in this clear-eyed vision of a lesbian working as a professional dominatrix with a police officer as a regular client.
BEYONCÉ
Director
Um projeto único que reune 17 vídeos deslumbrantes, provocativos e de produções impecáveis, gravados em diferentes partes do mundo, do Rio de Janeiro a Sydney, de Nova York a Paris - e que se reúnem como um filme dando ao fã a oportunidade única de ver o álbum como um todo, e não somente escutá-lo como um single ou um simples vídeo clipe.
Beyoncé: A Vida é Apenas um Sonho
Producer
Life Is But a Dream é um documentário realizado e produzido pela HBO sobre a vida da cantora estadunidense Beyoncé Knowles, durante os anos de 2011 e 2012 e na gravação do seu quinto álbum. O longa foi dirigido pela própria Beyoncé. O filme mostra Beyoncé desde momentos íntimos da sua gravidez à bastidores e ensaios dos principais concertos dessa época.