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JEN WHITE

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About Me

If I'm not shooting, odds are good that I'm thinking about it.

I direct and shoot music videos, films, and commercials with the occasional documentary thrown into the mix (probably more of them in the future). I also work as a freelance cinematographer and camera operator for other directors, shooting television shows, commercials, documentaries, music videos, and narrative films. You can watch my cinematography reels above, as well as a few of my music videos.

I got my start as a shooter at the age of twelve as my Girl Scout troop was working on a photography badge. I've been a camera junkie ever since. Please check out my pics section for a sample of my work.

My Interests

film . photography . art . music . people-watching . books . astronomy . quantum physics . playing the piano . foreign languages . walking in Chicago . the ocean . cameras, light and the manipulation of both.

I'd like to meet:

all the people who inspire me (most of them are listed on the left) and the ones who are going to: musicians, filmmakers, artists, photographers, dreamers, searchers, lovers, writers, and geeks.

Music:

Pearl Jam . Coldplay . Keane . Ours . enedina . 54 Seconds . Fiona Apple . Jeff Buckley . The Shins . Alexi Murdoch . Sigur Ros . Guster . Imogen Heap . Mogwai . Incubus . Bjork . Iron & Wine . Lyle Lovett . The Beatles . Radiohead . Pete Yorn . Live . Johnny Goudie . David Garza . Brian Eno . Tori Amos . Doves . Elliot Smith . Sia . Van Morrison . Snow Patrol . Ryan Adams . U2 . Ray La Montagne . Sufjan Stevens . Rachel Yamagata . Cary Brothers

Movies:

JFK . Amelie . The Matrix . Garden State . Moonlight Mile . Donnie Darko . The Insider . The Nightmare Before Christmas . Road to Perdition . Fight Club . Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . Solaris . Seabuscuit . The Goonies . Pretty in Pink . Sixteen Candles . Ferris Beuler's Day Off . Joe Versus the Volcano . Chelsea Walls . Dead Poets Society . Confessions of a Dangerous Mind . Lost in Translation . American Beauty . Life as a House . The Virgin Suicides . The Big Lebowski . Ace Ventura: Pet Detective . Say Anything . Almost Famous . Oscar and Lucinda . The English Patient . Erin Brockovich . Traffic . The Hours . High Fidelity . Grand Canyon . Gattaca . Dazed and Confused . Sex and Lucia . Pi . The Myth of Fingerprints . Pleasantville . The Princess And The Warrior . Onegin . Rudy . Romeo and Juliet . Rushmore . The Princess Bride . The Royal Tennanbaums . Moulin Rouge . Rain Man . The Thin Red Line . Magnolia . Waking the Dead . Man on Fire . Seven . Raising Arizona . Searching For Bobby Fischer . Good Will Hunting . Tin Cup . Finding Nemo . Catch Me if You Can . Out of Sight . Minority Report . Schindler's List . Ghandi . The Last Samurai . Platoon . Salvador . Natural Born Killers . Pulp Fiction . Empire of the Sun . Code 46 . Edward Scissorhands . Brazil . Sleepy Hollow . Beetle Juice . 12 Monkeys . Fargo . Collateral . Cold Mountain . Heat . Great Expectations . George Washington . 21 Grams . Ratcatcher . City of God . The Constant Gardener . Memoirs of a Geisha . Munich . Syrianna . Jarhead . An Inconvenient Truth . Little Miss Sunshine . The Science of Sleep . Pirates of the Caribean . The Secret . The Fountain . Deja Vu . Lady In The Water . The Dead Girl . Fur . Sunshine

Television:

Iconoclasts . Inside the Actors Studio . The Daily Show . The Colbert Report . Real Time with Bill Maher . Grey's Anatomy . Weeds . Dexter . Scrubs . Flip That House

Books:

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson . The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton . Everything by Michael Ondaatje . The Alchemist . The Culture of Fear . The End of Poverty . New Cinematographers . Freakonomics . The Camera . The Negative . The Print . Matters of Light and Depth . Bitch . Reinventing Music Video . Changing Direction . The Eye Is Quicker . The Director's Idea . Writing Down the Bones . The Director's Intuition . The Visual Story . Shot by Shot . Cinematic Motion . Painting with Light

Heroes:

those who believe in the beauty of their dreams