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Bard College.
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Jeff Preiss
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In 1987 Preiss began working with Bruce Weber, the photographer, as Director of Photography on a series of short films and features. Preiss collaborated for three years with Weber, then expanded his career to include directing television commercials and music videos (including music video clips for Iggy People’s, Malcolm McLaren, Rapid eye movement sleep, B52s, Mariah Carey and commercials for Nike, LL Bean, Monstercom, among others). Preiss directed an advertisement produced by Deutsch/Los Angeles for Zillow, the real estate database company.
In May 2005, Preiss co-founded Orchard, a co-operative experimental exhibition space, where he collaborated on a series of films with Andrea Fraser, Nicolás Guagnini, Christian Philipp Müller, Josiah McElheny, Moyra Davey and Anthony McCall.
Works from this series have joined collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and the Museum of Modern Art, New New York In 2013 Epoch also produced Low Down, a biopic based on the life of jazz pianist Joe Albany, along with producers Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger, and Burton Ritchie.
lieutenant was released in 2014. Preiss is now a board member at Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New New York
Achievements
Membership
He was a board member of The Collective for Living Cinema.
