Christopher Blauvelt

Christopher Blauvelt in 2019

Christopher Blauvelt at the Sundance 2014 Awards Ceremony

Christopher Blauvelt is an American cinematographer, and a third generation film craftsman.

Career

Blauvelt started his career in the camera and electrical department under cinematographers Harris Savides, Christopher Doyle and Lance Acord.

He continued to work with cinematographer and mentor Savides until his sudden death from brain cancer. ^{[1] [2]}

Filmography

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2010	Meek's Cutoff	Kelly Reichardt
2012	Nobody Walks	Ry Russo-Young
	The Discoverers	Justin Schwarz
2013	The Bling Ring	Sofia Coppola	With Harris Savides
	Max Rose	Daniel Noah
	Night Moves	Kelly Reichardt
	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby	Ned Benson
2014	Low Down	Jeff Preiss
	How and Why	Charlie Kaufman	TV movie [3]
2015	I Am Michael	Justin Kelly
	Sweet Kandy	Nicholas Peate
2016	Indignation	James Schamus
	Certain Women	Kelly Reichardt
2018	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot	Gus Van Sant
	State Like Sleep	Meredith Danluck
	Mid90s	Jonah Hill
2019	The Dead Ones	Jeremy Kasten
	First Cow	Kelly Reichardt
2020	Emma.	Autumn de Wilde
2022	Warm Blood	Rick Charnoski	Also executive producer
	Showing Up	Kelly Reichardt
	What Remains	Ran Huang
2023	May December	Todd Haynes
2025	Hot Milk	Rebecca Lenkiewicz	With Si Bell
	The Mastermind	Kelly Reichardt

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2022	Stutz	Jonah Hill
2023	Ignore Heroes - The True Sounds of Liberty	Jack Grisham	With Kenneth Vatan-Woodall
2026	IPI	Yasmin Hed

Music video

Cinematographer

Year	Title	Artist	Director	Ref.
2007	"Pennywhistle"	ALOKE	Jack Patrick
2013	"Stay"	Tiny Hearts	Justin Kelly
	"Glory to the World"	El Perro Del Mar	Emily De Groot
	"Working Class Hero"	Green Day	Samuel Bayer
	"Underdog"	Turin Brakes	Sophie Muller	[4]
2016	"Dark Necessities"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Olivia Wilde	[5]

Director

Year	Title	Artist	Ref.
2020	"Deleter"	Grouplove	[6]
	"Youth"		[7]

Awards

For his work on Meek's Cutoff , Blauvelt earned an ICP Nomination, and best cinematography at the Valladolid International Film Festival for Night Moves .

In 2012, Variety hailed him as a "Cinematographer to Watch". ^[8] In 2013, Indiewire also listed him as a "Cinematographer to Watch". ^[9]

In 2014, Blauvelt won the Dramatic Cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival, for Low Down .

References

1. Oliver Lyttelton (June 26, 2012). "On The Rise '12: 5 Cinematographers Lighting Up Screens I - The Playlist". The Playlist. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
2. "Cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt Talks Taking Over 'The Bling Ring' for Harris Savides". Film.com.
3. Andreeva, Nellie (January 14, 2014). "John Hawkes & Michael Cera To Star In Charlie Kaufman's FX Comedy Pilot" . Retrieved October 21, 2019.
4. "Christopher Blauvelt". IMDb.
5. Chad Smith [@RHCPchad] (May 31, 2016). "....aaaannnd cut!!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. "Watch Grouplove Get Rowdy in New 'Deleter' Music Video". Rolling Stone . January 9, 2020.
7. "Grouplove: "Youth" With "Twin Peaks" Star Grace Zabriskie - PAPER". March 4, 2020.
8. David Heuring (February 13, 2012). "Blauvelt: Pays tribute to '70s cinema with 'Walks'". Variety.
9. Indiewire. "Christopher Blauvelt". Indiewire.

External links

Media related to Christopher Blauvelt at Wikimedia Commons

• Christopher Blauvelt at IMDb