A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Jody Stillwater 周青海
周青海
Jody Stillwater 周青海, a filmmaker and artist in the San Francisco Bay Area, is renowned for his expertise in dynamic movement, semiotic language, time cycles, rhythm, and archetype synthesis. With over 30 films directed, his work often intricately explores the diverse Bay Area cultural ecology and the theme of growth following disruption. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker and co-founder of Yanasa Creative Group, Jody has showcased his work at prestigious venues including the MoMA in NYC, Hammer Museum, de Young Museum, YBCA, Mutek, Gray Area, Honolulu Museum of Art, Transfer Gallery, and ISEA. He has also been a finalist for the SFFILM Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting grant and has been commissioned by notable companies such as Google, Meta/Facebook, Knotel, and Bentley Mills. He has screened films at Marfa Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, Bucharest Int’l Dance Film Festival, performed live video projects at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and participated in various multi-disciplinary labs such as the Tribeca Film Festival Hacks Lab (incorporating film + technology) and the San Francisco Dance Film Festival Co-Lab (built around choreography + film). He works in multiple mediums and holds a BA in Film & Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz.
Cinematography:
2022 As The Water Darkens
Director:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 Ulu Kupu
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Director of Photography:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 Ulu Kupu
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Editor:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 Ulu Kupu
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Grip:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 Ulu Kupu
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Producer:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 Ulu Kupu
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Sound Mixer:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 Ulu Kupu
2023 The We Should Game
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Sound Recordist:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 From X to Z
2022 Ulu Kupu
2023 The We Should Game
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
Writer:
2020 CYANOVISIONS
2022 As The Water Darkens
2022 From X to Z
2022 Ulu Kupu
2023 The We Should Game
2024 Saturn Risin9
2024 The Wind Telephone
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
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).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.