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Jay Keitel

Jay Keitel

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Biography

Jay Keitel is an American film cinematographer. He attended the Northwest Film Center in Portland and holds a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts.

Known For

The Girlfriend Experience
7.0

Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

The Girlfriend Experience

2016
Walker Independence
6.6

Set in the late 1800s, this origin story follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West, as she crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins, a lovable rogue in search of purpose. Abby and Hoyt's journey takes them to Independence, Texas, a small town with a big future.

Walker Independence

2022
A Desert
6.1

A photographer’s road trip takes a dark turn when he befriends a reckless couple, plunging him into a nightmarish neo-noir spiral of unpredictable horror.

A Desert

2025
Phoenix Forgotten
6.1

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

Phoenix Forgotten

2017
The Anchorage
5.7

This enigmatic, mysterious minimalist feature, a collaboration between CalArts graduate C.W. Winter and photographer Anders Edström, combines elements of narrative fiction, documentary, and even installation art in depicting the daily routine of Ulla, a middle-aged woman living in self-sufficient isolation on a wild island on the Stockholm archipelago.

The Anchorage

2010
Paperback
5.8

A pizza cook who's never left his college town meets the woman of his dreams before finding out there's a huge roadblock to them being together.

Paperback

2015
She Dies Tomorrow
5.1

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

She Dies Tomorrow

2020
From Nowhere
5.3

Three undocumented teenagers, a Dominican girl, an African boy and a Peruvian girl, are about to graduate high school in the Bronx, while working with a teacher and a lawyer to try to get their papers to stay in the USA. Forced to grow up prematurely and navigate problems most adults don't even have to face, they're really just American teenagers who want to be with their friends, fall in love, and push back against authority.

From Nowhere

2017
Sex, Death and Bowling
4.3

Two brothers separated by one continent and two decades reunite when one of them becomes sick with cancer.

Sex, Death and Bowling

2015
Sun Don't Shine
5.4

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Sun Don't Shine

2013
One Brick at a Time: Making the LEGO Batman Movie
7.5

Documentary on the Lego Batman Movie.

One Brick at a Time: Making the LEGO Batman Movie

2017
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5.0

In an idyllic suburban neighborhood, Jerry runs his big business lemonade stand and has the market cornered, until ten-year-old Addie opens her own stand across the street. Competition equals war, and both sides use (and abuse) a government regulator to try and win. In the end, one special customer will decide their fate.

Lemonade War

2014
No More Time
2.0

A couple seeks refuge in a remote mountain town to escape a mysterious viral disease that makes people disappear or turn into murderers. As messengers emerge from the forest, the couple must decide who to trust and what to do to survive.

No More Time

2022
Cryptic
6.5

A girl whose family is in crisis finds a time shifting way to help herself.

Cryptic

2009
Lost Cause
N/A

Actors workshop an allegorical and fictional new musical for an audience of one, who holds the fate of the play in her hands.

Lost Cause

2025
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N/A

Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collar labor isn't obsolete, but it's scarce. The city has created a program to "remigrate" long-gone working class families from their inland homes back to the city that once pushed them out. Kaya, Helen, and Naomi return to San Francisco and join a handful of other potential remigrants for a tour of what can be expected in their new lives. But can they learn to trust their old home once again?

Remigration

2011
The Frontier
5.8

A desperate young woman, on the run from the law, takes a job at a remote desert motel. She quickly discovers the motel's patrons are rendezvousing after a large robbery. With nothing to lose, and all to gain, she hatches a plan to steal their loot.

The Frontier

2016
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N/A

After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the majestic landscape, they begin to revisit their past relationship. As cracks start to show each is left wondering whether the other has changed enough to make it work this time.

Leave Me Like You Found Me

2012
No Matter What
N/A

When 15-year-old Joey’s mother goes missing in the rural, economically depressed corner of northern Florida that he and his best friend Nick call home, they go searching for her through increasingly dangerous territory

No Matter What

2011
The Last Ride
N/A

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded souls is the unmistakable sound of Tom Waits.

The Last Ride

2025