WHO California-based cinematographer Jim Matlosz has an extensive range of experience beyond the drama and comedy of modern cinematography. He is noted for his commercial Tabletop and High Speed work, acclaimed for his Documentary work, and his contributions to Music Videos and Stop Motion are a tribute to his worldly experience and strong artistic integrity. SPECIALITIES As a pioneer and practitioner of high-speed photography, Matlosz is one of the first DPs to adopt and shoot with the Phantom high-speed cameras. His formative years with Photo-Sonics high-speed equipment contributed to Matlosz’s burgeoning cinematography career, and continue to expand the scope of his talents. Tabletop spots include Budlight Golden Wheat (fall 2009), Budlight Lime (spring 2009), Smirnoff Mojito, Sprite, 7up, Burger King, Crystal Geyser, Miller Draft, Olay and Propel. Non tabletop include, MTV, HBO, LG Vacuum, AT&T, Nike, iPhone, CBS, Arriflex, McDonalds, Sony and Fox Sports. BEYOND Feature documentaries are another of Matlosz’s strengths. DP credits include Who Killed the Electric Car, Better Living through Circuitry, I’m Trying to Break Your Heart, The Wrecking Crew and the upcoming Floating. Noteworthy music jobs include a VH-1 Rock Honors promo for The Who featuring an exploding full scale five-piece drum set, guitar and can of beans, as well as two highly successful videos for Buckcherry; “Crazy Bitch”, scoring 1 million youtube hits in its first month and “Sorry”, racking up 3.5 million hits. The band subsequently signed with Atlantic. BEGINNINGS His 1st AC work on numerous commercials, music videos and features as well as On Imax film Alaska: Sprit of the Wild as well as Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas led to his lensing the Imax film Ski to the Max, starring Pink with director Willy Bogner. He also acquired his first stop motion cinematographer credits on My Name is Earl and the animated award winning short Oedipus, a Sundance Film Festival official selection winning Best Cinematography awards in 2005 at HDfest and Local 600’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards. In 2008 he took over the reins as chairman of the ECA board, for the International Cinematographers Guild. Filming experiences range from helicopter skiing films to 28 days of out on the ocean for the Imax film Volcanoes of the Deep. He is just as comfortable in a studio as in distant locations, hot, cold, wet or dry. He has traversed South and Central America, The Czech republic, Australia, South Korea, India, Lithuania, England, Switzerland, Portugal, Bermuda and almost every state in the USA, As well as many cities, towns and wilder parts of Canada and Alaska. EXPANDING SKILL SET Expanding his reach and his skill set, Cinematography articles from the pen of Matlosz can be read in HDvideoPro and ICG magazine, as well the Visual Effects Society handbook. FORMATIVE YEARS Born in New Jersey and raised among the corn fields and fishing holes of rural NJ, Matlosz’s burgeoning passion for film he cites viewings of Jaws, (Cinematography by Bill Butler) and the works of Roger Deakins, Conrad Hall and Vittorio Storaro as seminal moments) gave him the drive to move onward and upward. Matlosz moved to California in 1989 with a BA and AA in media studies and an AA in photography, on a hope and a prayer, full of drive and passion that dreams do come true. PHILOSOPHY Matlosz has a gut instinct for how things should and do work in cinematography. He is determined to put his whole heart and mind behind his style and lighting aesthetic, driven by what feels most organic in the representation of action and reaction on screen. His pace and versatility set him apart – not only is he quick to make technical and artistic decisions, he embraces visual contrast aptly relative to the job at hand. He believes a cinematographer’s most important trait is flexibility, flexibility nurtured by experience, along with willingness to learn, listen and grow. He is known for keeping crews in high spirits on shoot. HOBBIES Matlosz also dabbles in the culinary arts and courts the romance of the grill – everything from whole birds to appetizers and deserts. Also, an avid mountain biker and road cyclist, he is involved in a range of sports – not as a spectator, always participating – whether it be coaching kids’ teams or playing soccer, baseball, basketball… FUTURE THOUGHTS Someday, he says, he may change his name to something more European and exotic as a career move. But for now he’s DP Jim Matlosz, represented in Los Angeles by Dattner Dispoto and Associates.

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WHO

California-based cinematographer Jim Matlosz has an extensive range of experience beyond the drama and comedy of modern cinematography. He is noted for his commercial Tabletop and High Speed work, acclaimed for his Documentary work, and his contributions to Music Videos and Stop Motion are a tribute to his worldly experience and strong artistic integrity.

SPECIALITIES

As a pioneer and practitioner of high-speed photography, Matlosz is one of the first DPs to adopt and shoot with the Phantom high-speed cameras. His formative years with Photo-Sonics high-speed equipment contributed to Matlosz’s burgeoning cinematography career, and continue to expand the scope of his talents.

Tabletop spots include Budlight Golden Wheat (fall 2009), Budlight Lime (spring 2009), Smirnoff Mojito, Sprite, 7up, Burger King, Crystal Geyser, Miller Draft, Olay and Propel. Non tabletop include, MTV, HBO, LG Vacuum, AT&T, Nike, iPhone, CBS, Arriflex, McDonalds, Sony and Fox Sports.

BEYOND

Feature documentaries are another of Matlosz’s strengths. DP credits include Who Killed the Electric Car, Better Living through Circuitry, I’m Trying to Break Your Heart, The Wrecking Crew and the upcoming Floating.

Noteworthy music jobs include a VH-1 Rock Honors promo for The Who featuring an exploding full scale five-piece drum set, guitar and can of beans, as well as two highly successful videos for Buckcherry; “Crazy Bitch”, scoring 1 million youtube hits in its first month and “Sorry”, racking up 3.5 million hits. The band subsequently signed with Atlantic.

BEGINNINGS

His 1st AC work on numerous commercials, music videos and features as well as On Imax film Alaska: Sprit of the Wild as well as Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas led to his lensing the Imax film Ski to the Max, starring Pink with director Willy Bogner. He also acquired his first stop motion cinematographer credits on My Name is Earl and the animated award winning short Oedipus, a Sundance Film Festival official selection winning Best Cinematography awards in 2005 at HDfest and Local 600’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards. In 2008 he took over the reins as chairman of the ECA board, for the International Cinematographers Guild.

Filming experiences range from helicopter skiing films to 28 days of out on the ocean for the Imax film Volcanoes of the Deep. He is just as comfortable in a studio as in distant locations, hot, cold, wet or dry. He has traversed South and Central America, The Czech republic, Australia, South Korea, India, Lithuania, England, Switzerland, Portugal, Bermuda and almost every state in the USA, As well as many cities, towns and wilder parts of Canada and Alaska.

EXPANDING SKILL SET

Expanding his reach and his skill set, Cinematography articles from the pen of Matlosz can be read in HDvideoPro and ICG magazine, as well the Visual Effects Society handbook.

FORMATIVE YEARS

Born in New Jersey and raised among the corn fields and fishing holes of rural NJ, Matlosz’s burgeoning passion for film he cites viewings of Jaws, (Cinematography by Bill Butler) and the works of Roger Deakins, Conrad Hall and Vittorio Storaro as seminal moments) gave him the drive to move onward and upward. Matlosz moved to California in 1989 with a BA and AA in media studies and an AA in photography, on a hope and a prayer, full of drive and passion that dreams do come true.

PHILOSOPHY

Matlosz has a gut instinct for how things should and do work in cinematography. He is determined to put his whole heart and mind behind his style and lighting aesthetic, driven by what feels most organic in the representation of action and reaction on screen. His pace and versatility set him apart – not only is he quick to make technical and artistic decisions, he embraces visual contrast aptly relative to the job at hand.

He believes a cinematographer’s most important trait is flexibility, flexibility nurtured by experience, along with willingness to learn, listen and grow. He is known for keeping crews in high spirits on shoot.

HOBBIES

Matlosz also dabbles in the culinary arts and courts the romance of the grill – everything from whole birds to appetizers and deserts. Also, an avid mountain biker and road cyclist, he is involved in a range of sports – not as a spectator, always participating – whether it be coaching kids’ teams or playing soccer, baseball, basketball…

FUTURE THOUGHTS

Someday, he says, he may change his name to something more European and exotic as a career move. But for now he’s DP Jim Matlosz, represented in Los Angeles by Dattner Dispoto and Associates.