Filmography

Jake Astbury selected filmography

This City is an illusion: The Debt (2009 - 2023)
The Worker (2022)
Stay Awake (2022)
the entanglement of self and the other (2020)
this is all we have II (2018)
Vacuum (2017)
Police State (2016)
Ex Stasis (2009)
Autochrome (2007)
We Billion Cheered, Channel Four (2004)
Camera Crushing (1997)
Step and Motion (1997)
Perpetual Motion (1992)
Cut & Scratch (1992)

Collaborations

The Tailor (2023) - Video Editor / Colour Gradist
The Bookshop (2022) - Video Editor / Colour Gradist
24 Lines (2011) - Co Writer / Director / Cinematographer
%Cara Mamma (Dear Mummy) (2010) - Cinematographer
Ex Stasis (2009) - Director / Cinematographer
Estuary Girl (2017) - Director of Photography
Elizabeth/In Parts (in others, Monsters) (2017) - Cinematographer
%Not Jane (2011) - Cinematographer
For Claude (2011) - Cinematographer
Ringmaster My Sister (2009) - Cinematographer
Some Parts Are Missing (2009) - Cinematographer
"Not Alice" (2009) - Cinematographer
A Model Artist (2008) - Cinematographer
Morning Suits (2008) - Cinematographer

Screenings and Exhibitions

(2019) Magdalen Studios Oxford
(2016) Oriel Sycharth Gallery
(2014) metamatic Gallery, Athens
(2012) Shortwave London
(2011) Paris Feminist & Lesbian Film Festival, MixBrasil
(2010) Moogie Wonderland, Something’s Coming to Town (site-specific exhibition), Big Dance, 02 Arena London (Greenwich Dance Theatre dancefilm collection), Festival Commission, Festival Delle Lettere, Milan
(2009) Edinburgh Film Festival (Black Box Series)
(2009) Breda Film Festival, SexBeat Festival, Stag & Dagger, (SXSW Festival, USA), Branchage Jersey International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival
(2008) Galleri54, Gothenburg, Sweden, Iris Prize, Cardiff (Prize shortlist), Branchage Jersey International Film Festival, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
(2005) Channel Four, The Slot – We Billion Cheered
(2004) Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Horse Hospital London
(2003) A & D Gallery, LUX (launch), 291 Gallery, London
(2002) Channel Four – Identinet Part 1 & 2
(2001) American Society of Cinematographers, British Society of Cinematographers,
Royal College of Art
(2000) Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York
(1997) Riverside Studios
(1993) Berlin Film Festival
(1992) Bradford Museum of Film & Photography


Commercial Work as The Astburys'

Tata Steel Promo (2017)
Francesa M Tayor, Mens fashion Promo sponsored by Kickers (2012)
The Whitehouse theatre trailer (2011)
Pre-Olympics Nike Kinetic UK Promo (2009)
The Dealers, Live (2008)

Selected Commercial Work as Jake Astbury

Deep State, Mirza/Butler, Lighting and Camera Operator (2012)
Serpentine Gallery, Bidoun Library Seminars, Camera (2011)
M.A.G online magazine, Yarah Bravo Interview, Camera(2009)
M.A.G online magazine, Saffron Interview, Camera (2009)
M.A.G online magazine, Lauren Pope Interview, Camera (2009)
Bantam Films, Kinetic, Nike, D.O.P (2009)
Amnesty International, 1000 Voices, D.O.P (2008)
Granada Television,‘The Last Detective IV’Camera operator (2006)
Stylorouge, Tara Blaise, Three Degrees Video, Camera (2005)
Stylorouge, Tara Blaise, Paperback Cliché, Camera (2004)
The Corrs - Live in Lisbon / Geneva, Camera Operator (2004)
David Viner ‘Long Gone Honey’,D.O.P (2004)
Channel 4, Indentinet Documentary (D.O.P) (2002)
Yorkshire TV, Christine Keeler Doc (Camera Operator) (2002)
Mirza/Butler ‘Where a straight line meets a Curve’(Camera) (2000)
Pulse Dance Company (Director / D.O.P) (1999)

Jake Astbury and Daniel Astbury
This City is an illusion: Ground Under Girl (2005-2020)
The Evocation (1998-2020)
Nunchaku (2005)
Kodak Super-8 Promo, (Director, D.O.P) (2001)
Looking Back at Andy (1998-2020)