Michael Spiller

Michael Spiller

História

Michael Spiller is an American television director and cinematographer.

Perfil

Michael Spiller

Filmes

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Self
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
No Such Thing
Director of Photography
Beatrice's fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by contacting a scientist who can destroy matter painlessly.
Linda de Morrer
Director of Photography
Em Mount Rose, uma pequena cidade do Minnesota, há uma grande movimentação para a 50ª edição do Jovem Princesa da América, o mais antigo concurso de beleza dos Estados Unidos. A vencedora irá disputar o prêmio estadual e quem vencer esta etapa disputará o prêmio nacional. Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), que já venceu o concurso e pertence à família mais rica de Mount Rose, quer que sua filha, Becky Leeman (Denise Richards), seja a vencedora. Gladys está disposta a fazer qualquer coisa, literalmente falando, para ver sua filha como a ganhadora, mas existe uma maquiadora de defuntos, Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), que correndo por fora se mostra uma forte rival.
Cozinha do Inferno
Director of Photography
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was not the ex-con's and can't bring himself to do the task. Meanwhile, the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender.
Niagara, Niagara
Director of Photography
An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.
A Casa do Sim
Cinematography
Neste clássico do humor negro, uma mulher mentalmente desequilibrada, que imagina ser Jacqueline Kennedy, envolve-se em uma vingança assassina quando seu irmão volta para casa no Dia de Ação de Graças e revela estar noivo. O problema com sua personalidade se revela menos grave que o do ciúme de seu irmão, mas o que acontece depois deixa claro que ela não é a única perturbada da família.
Henry Fool
Director of Photography
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Amigas Curtindo Adoidado
Director of Photography
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Flerte
Director of Photography
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
Cercar e Destruir
Director of Photography
A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of making a movie.
Hand Gun
Director of Photography
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
Amateur
Director of Photography
Uma ex-freira que escreve contos pornográficos se cruza com um amnésico vagando pelas ruas de Nova Iorque. Empenhados a descobrir a identidade do homem, eles confrontam o passado desagradável dele, incluindo uma atriz pornô vingativa e assassinos corporativos implacáveis no seu encalço.
Flirt
Cinematography
In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with. Later incorporated into a feature film of the same name.
A Metade Negra
Second Unit Director of Photography
Um escritor bestseller, Thad Beaumont (Hutton) é chantageado por um vigarista que ameaça lhe delatar o pseudônimo que usa nos livros, George Stark. Disposto a não aceitar as ameaças do meliante, Beaumont decide ele mesmo revelar-se publicamente, até mesmo com um “enterro” simbólico de Stark. A partir daí estranhos e violentos assassinatos são cometidos (a começar pelo jornalista e fotógrafo que se encarregaram da reportagem), sempre precedidos de uma revoada de pardais.
A Metade Negra
Additional Camera
Um escritor bestseller, Thad Beaumont (Hutton) é chantageado por um vigarista que ameaça lhe delatar o pseudônimo que usa nos livros, George Stark. Disposto a não aceitar as ameaças do meliante, Beaumont decide ele mesmo revelar-se publicamente, até mesmo com um “enterro” simbólico de Stark. A partir daí estranhos e violentos assassinatos são cometidos (a começar pelo jornalista e fotógrafo que se encarregaram da reportagem), sempre precedidos de uma revoada de pardais.
Lincoln and the War Within
Director of Photography
First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North and the jaded South and William H. Seward, his Secretary of State, played a crucial role.
Simple Men
Director of Photography
Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas.
Wadeck’s Mother’s Friend’s Son
Cinematography
Two Polish men (Arnold Barkus, Ranko Chepin), a Frenchwoman (Zazie Dinev) and her rich new husband go from New York's Lower East Side to California.
Surviving Desire
Director of Photography
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Theory of Achievement
Cinematography
This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brookylnites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.
Ambition
Director of Photography
Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.
Confiança
Director of Photography
Maria (Adrienne Shelly) é uma jovem rebelde e liberada que provoca um enfarte fulminante em seu pai ao lhe contar que está grávida do namorado. Matthew (Martin Donovan) é um engenheiro eletrônico, bastante instável que, literalmente, anda com uma granada de mão no bolso do casaco. Expulsa de casa pela mãe e abandonada pelo namorado, Maria esbarra em Matthew que acabara de perder o emprego. Desta forma, começa um relacionamento complicado, cheio de dúvidas e desconfiança. Ambientada nos subúrbios de uma cidade central americana, "Confiança?" é uma comédia sarcástica, sutil e provocante sobre o cotidiano de um casal em busca do auto-conhecimento e a descoberta de novos sentimentos.
A Incrível Verdade
Director of Photography
O ex-condenado Josh Hutton foi acusado a 15 anos de prisão por haver matado a namorada e o pai dela. A princípio, Vic quer manter a filha bem longe de Josh, mas muda de idéia ao descobrir que uma relação humana pode ter semelhanças com uma transação capitalista.
As Profissionais do Sonho
Gaffer
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
The Cartographer's Girlfriend
Director of Photography
Selffunded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.
Streetwalkin'
Electrician
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
Tommy's
Cinematography
A state employee tasked with photographing road conditions tracks a mysterious man (played by Steve Buscemi) who leaves suspiciously large garbage bags along a snowy country road.
Kid
Cinematography
Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man named Ned (Ricky Ludwig) attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.