LIZA BAMBENEK
RESUME + WORK HISTORY

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
• ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
• CAMERA ASSISTANT



   


DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

WASTEWATER, 2009
Dir. Melissa White
A narrative about a wastewater treatment plant operator who finds a diamond bracelet and meets the woman who lost it.

MIXING, 2009
Dir. Melissa White
A 4-minute artumentary that asks the question, Why do we use drinking water to flush our toilets? Architects, environmentalists and artists discuss the longevity of civilization against a backdrop of hypnotic images of sludge blankets, retention ponds and mixing basins at a wastewater treatment plant.

CHARLES SCHWAB STORIES, 2009
Dir. Amy Silverman
A segment for Charles Schwab on-line.

NEW MEXICO DEPT. OF EDUCATION, 2009
Dir. Kurt Korneman
Public Service Announcement promoting the New Mexico film industry educational incentives.

BEATRICE, 2008
Dir. Javier Hernandez
Dramatic short about a bourgeois housewife coming to grips with her affair.

LINDA, AS IN BEAUTIFUL, 2007
Dir. Faith Strongheart
Burned in a tragic accident when she was just a baby, Linda confronts her life’s challenges of love, image and self.

WHAT TO SAY, 2004
Dir. Mary Katzke
Filmed in both urban and extremely remote parts of Alaska, this film profiles five different women as they battle against breast cancer.  Focusing on the support systems crucial to positive treatment, What To Say offers encouragement and ideas to anyone who has a loved-one in the fight against breast cancer.

HECHO EN MEXICO, 2004
Dir. Liza Bambenek
Currently in post-production, this documentary follows two American artists over three months in Mexico City as they collaborate on the construction of a camera obscura: the first installation in their series entitled Hysteresis, which reintroduces old technologies to a modern world. Their installation aims to reintroduce a new/old way of seeing based upon the earliest known camera design: the camera obscura.

LISTED AS WHITE, 2004
Oklahoma Unit – “The Nadeane Smith Story”
Dir. Annie Frazier-Henry
An on-going  project which profiles Native American women in the U.S. prison system and the fact that many of them are listed as white in the prison records.  Not only robbed of many civil rights, these women in prison are also robbed of their identity.  This chapter in the film follows a woman on death row in Oklahoma.

ADVENTURE DIVAS, 2004
D.P.  New Zealand: Stroppy Sheilas and Mana Wahine
Dir. Holly Morris
Adventure Divas is a highly acclaimed documentary series that mixes travel and biography.  With passion-driven, independent women (divas) of the world lighting our way, we explore cultures through a refreshing, idea driven lens.  Countries (and their divas) profiled include: Cuba, India, New Zealand and Iran. www.adventuredivas.com

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY

VITAL VOICES, 2004
Washington D.C. Unit
Dir. Barbara Kopple, D.P. Maryse Alberti
Documenting the Vital Voices Conference of Women in Democracy 2000, this piece follows the interactions of the conference’s participants (women activists, politicians and social reformers) as they discuss their individual country’s trials and successes in the terms of women’s rights and political involvement.  The piece also highlights Hillary Rodham Clinton and the U.S. State Department’s involvement with and support of the conference.

SMALL STEPS: CREATING THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, 2005
Dir. Barbara Kopple & David Becker, D.P. Kirsten Johnson
This film follows students, staff and parents through the first four years of the High School for Contemporary Arts, an experimental "small school" housed within one of the most dangerous schools in the Bronx.

UNTITLED JAMES TURRELL PROJECT, in production
Dir. / D.P.  Dyanna Taylor
The masterwork of artist James Turrell, the Roden Crater, has been in process for over 25 years.  A massive land and light installation outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, the Crater is one of the largest installations ever built.  Filmmaker Dyanna Taylor has had access to the Crater for the past 10 years and has been documenting its construction, its evolution and the life-altering affects it has had on the artist himself.

 



CAMERA ASSISTANT

FEATURE FILMS

True Grit (2010)(second assistant camera: "a" camera)
Let Me In (2011)(second assistant camera: "a" camera)
The Resident (2010)(second assistant camera: "a" camera)
Night and Day (2010) (TV)(first assistant camera: "c" camera)
Crazy Heart (2010)(second assistant camera: "a" camera)
Brothers (2009/I)(second assistant camera: "a" camera)
The Keeper (2009/I) (first assistant camera: "c" camera)
Georgia O'Keeffe (2009) (TV) (first assistant camera: "b" camera)
Love N' Dancing (2009) (second assistant camera: "a" camera)
Sex and Lies in Sin City (2008) (TV) (second assistant camera)
Redirecting Eddie (2008) (second assistant camera)
Appaloosa (2008) (second assistant camera: "b" camera)
"Breaking Bad-Pilot" (second assistant camera) (1 episode, 2008)
"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles-Pilot" (second assistant camera)
In the Valley of Elah (2007) (additional second assistant camera)
The Flock (2007) (second assistant camera: "a" camera)
No Country for Old Men (2007) (second assistant camera: "a" camera)
Employee of the Month (2006) (second assistant camera: "a" camera)
The Departed (2006) (film loader)
Falling Objects (2006) (assistant camera: second unit)
The Pink Panther (2006) (loader) (as Lisa T. Bambenek)
North Country (2005) (second assistant camera: "b" camera)
Broken Flowers (2005) (camera loader)
Hide and Seek (2005) (assistant camera)
The Forgotten (2004) (assistant camera)
The Stepford Wives (2004) (assistant camera)
One Year Down (2004) (first assistant camera)
Blind Horizon (2003) (assistant camera)
The Missing (2003/I) (assistant camera)
Unspeakable (2002) (camera loader)
"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001) TV series (assistant camera
Perfume (2001) (camera loader)
Black Days (2001) (first assistant camera)
"Nature" (assistant camera) (1 episode, 2000)
    - Extraordinary Birds (2000) TV episode (assistant camera)
"Deadline" (2000) TV series (assistant camera)
The Mountain King (2000) (first assistant camera)
Patriotic (2000) (second assistant camera)
The Last Supper (2000/I) (camera loader)

COMMERCIALS


SNL FILM UNIT - D.P. Alex Buono                                                                                    A Camera 2nd AC
BANANA REPUBLIC –- D.P. Tony Wolberg                                                                    A Camera 2nd AC
A LITTLE CURIOUS - D.P. Dyanna Taylor                                                                       1st AC
COLGATE - D.P. Bob Gantz                                                                                               Loader
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES - D.P. Rex Nicholson                                                           Loader
FORD 500/ FORD FREESTYLE – D.P. Marco Mazzei                                                      Loader

DOCUMENTARY


BORROWED LIGHT / Eve Ensler Productions - D.P. Dyanna Taylor                                  1st AC
PLAGUES AND HISTORY / Nat’l Geo - D.P. Tom Zainnes & Dyanna Taylor                      1st AC
AGNES MARTIN / Handmade Films - D.P. Dyanna Taylor                                                   1st AC
REAL SEX/ HBO – D.P. Dyanna Taylor                                                                                    1st AC