A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Christopher Jason Bell is a New Jersey-based filmmaker and professor. Christopher Jason Bell’s body of work feels immense. Across a number of boldly experimental shorts and a pair of features, Bell has playfully wrestled with key moments in American history, turned a critical yet clear-eyed gaze at contemporary working class life, offered a stage for game performers to stretch the definition of ‘non-professional,’ and, best of all, blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
Director:
2009 Bus Stop
2010 Pilgrimage
2012 Bridges
2015 The Winds That Scatter
2016 One Times One
2017 And By We I Mean Me
2017 Left
2017 Mohammad So-and-So
2018 Incorrectional
2018 The City Is Like A Character In The Film
2020 Trammel
2023 Failed State
???? Boundaries
???? The Finger
???? the evidence of our eyes
Director of Photography:
2009 Bus Stop
2010 Pilgrimage
2012 Bridges
2015 The Winds That Scatter
2016 One Times One
2017 And By We I Mean Me
2017 Left
2017 Mohammad So-and-So
2018 Incorrectional
2018 The City Is Like A Character In The Film
2020 Trammel
2023 Failed State
???? Boundaries
???? The Finger
???? the evidence of our eyes
Editor:
2009 Bus Stop
2010 Pilgrimage
2012 Bridges
2015 The Winds That Scatter
2016 One Times One
2017 And By We I Mean Me
2017 Left
2017 Mohammad So-and-So
2018 Incorrectional
2018 The City Is Like A Character In The Film
2020 Trammel
2023 Failed State
???? Boundaries
???? The Finger
???? the evidence of our eyes
Producer:
2009 Bus Stop
2010 Pilgrimage
2012 Bridges
2015 The Winds That Scatter
2016 One Times One
2017 And By We I Mean Me
2017 Left
2017 Mohammad So-and-So
2018 Incorrectional
2018 The City Is Like A Character In The Film
2020 Trammel
2023 Failed State
???? Boundaries
???? The Finger
???? the evidence of our eyes
Writer:
2009 Bus Stop
2010 Pilgrimage
2012 Bridges
2015 The Winds That Scatter
2016 One Times One
2017 And By We I Mean Me
2017 Left
2017 Mohammad So-and-So
2018 Incorrectional
2018 The City Is Like A Character In The Film
2020 Trammel
2023 Failed State
???? Boundaries
???? The Finger
???? the evidence of our eyes
Creator:
2023 Miss Me Yet
Director:
2023 Miss Me Yet
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
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