Luke Geissbühler is an American cinematographer and producer, with a body of work based mostly on documentary works.
Life and career Luke Geissbühler, son of renowned graphic designer Steff Geissbühler, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television. He has received an Academy Award nomination for his work as cinematographer and producer on the short film, Time Freak, as well as receiving an Emmy Award for Street Gang, HBO's 2021 documentary about the beginnings of Sesame Street. In 2010, Geissbühler built a homemade spacecraft with his son Max that quietly recorded a trip through the blackness of space and returned safely back to earth, as chronicled in the viral video, Space Balloon.
Filmography Film
Year Title Director Notes 1997 Headless Elizabeth DoniusAmy C. Elliott 2000 Killing Cinderella Lisa Abbatiello 2001 Acts of Worship Rosemary Rodriguez2003 Season of Youth Eric Perlmutter Justice Evan Oppenheimer 2004 Mail Order Wife Huck BotkoAndrew Gurland Role: Film crew 2005 Alchemy Evan Oppenheimer2006 East Broadway Fay Ann Lee With Toshiaki Ozawa Borat Larry Charles With Anthony Hardwick Noon Blue Apples Jay Lee 2009 The Magnificent Cooly-T Stephen Leeds 2010 The Virginity Hit Huck BotkoAndrew Gurland 2011 The Speed of Thought Evan Oppenheimer 2013 The Frankenstein Theory Andrew Weiner Role: Luke Hill2014 Bad Johnson Huck Botko Alien Abduction Matty Beckerman Match Stephen Belber Grace Heath Jones Sun Belt Express Evan Buxbaum 2015 Chloe and Theo Ezna Sands With Aaron Krummel and Peter Zeitlinger 2017 Stuck Michael Berry2018 Breaking Brooklyn Paul Becker Time Freak Andrew Bowler 2020 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Jason Woliner 2022 Follow Her Sylvia Caminer 2023 Robots Casper ChristensenAnthony Hines Also credited as co-producer 2026 Group: The Schopenhauer Effect Alexis Lloyd 2027 Out on a Limb Evan Oppenheimer
Direct-to-video Year Title Director Note 2008 Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control Gil Junger With Dave Perkal
Television Year Title Director Notes 2020 Group Alexis Lloyd 7 episodes 2008 A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa Kirk Thatcher TV movie
Documentary works Film Year Title Director Notes 1999 Three Days Kevin FordC.B. Smith (as Carter Smith) Shared credit with Kevin Ford and Steve Gainer 2001 The Party's Over Rebecca ChalkinDonovan Leitch With Brian C. Long, Ben Weinstein, Kevin Ford,C.B. Smith (as Carter Smith)2005 Squonkumentary Peggy Sutton Bearing Witness Barbara KoppleBob EisenhardtMarijana Wotton With Joan Churchill and Richard Connors2007 Helvetica Gary Hustwit Segment of Independent Lens Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 Ben Niles Shared credit with Ben Niles, Geoff O'Brien and Ben Wolf2009 Charlie Haden Reto Caduff With Daniel Pfisterer Beyond Our Differences Peter Bisanz With John Mans Objectified Gary Hustwit Segment of Independent Lens 2010 Love Etc. Jill Andresevic2011 Buck Cindy Meehl With Guy Mossman Urbanized Gary Hustwit The Visual Language of Herbert Matter Reto Caduff With Daniel Pfisterer 2014 A Lego Brickumentary Kief DavidsonDaniel Junge With Robert Muratore and Aaron Phillips 2015 Country: Portraits of an American Sound Steven Kochones2016 Workplace Gary Hustwit Bruce Springsteen: In His Own Words Nigel Cole TV movie2018 Elvis Presley: The Searcher Thom Zimny Fahrenheit 11/9 Michael Moore With Jayme Roy Rams Gary Hustwit2019 Funny You Never Knew Andrew Hunt With Manfred Reiff and Nancy Schreiber Who's Next? Nancy Cooperstein Also credited as producer 2021 Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Marilyn Agrelo 2022 Keeper of Time Michael Culyba With Ben Wolf2023 Apes Together Strong Finley MulliganQuinn Mulligan Shared credit with Finley Mulligan and Zach Voytas Ron Delsener Presents Jake Sumner2024 Vice Is Broke Eddie Huang Takin' Care of Business Tyler Measom 2026 Pandamonium Addison O'Dea With Will Pugh and Lars Skree
Television Reality TV Year Title Director Notes 2003 America's Next Top Model Cycle 1 2005 Inner Chef with Marcus Samuelsson Irad Eyal
Documentary series Year Title Director Notes2005 The Suite with Dave Karger Himself Party Girl Irad EyalMarla Puccetti 2006 Sensing Murder Penny FearonLisa BlochMark Mori 3 episodes;Also directed episodes "Missing Teens" and "Prairie Predator" 2007-2009 Independent Lens Ela TroyanoGary Hustwit 3 segments 2013 Drunk History Jeremy Konner Episode "Boston" 2013-2015 Newsreaders2017 Abstract: The Art of Design Richard Press Episodes "Paula Scher: Graphic Design" and"Platon: Photography" Killing Richard Glossip Joe BerlingerKevin Huffman2018 Who Is America? Unspeakable Crime:The Killing of Jessica Chambers Joe Berlinger 6 episodes The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Dee Koppang O'Leary TV special Wrong Man 2023 The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre 2024 Odysseus Returns Seth WardJames Younger
Miniseries Year Title Director 2017 Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio Joe BerlingerCatharine Park 2022 Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes Joe Berlinger2023 Who Killed Robert Wone? Jared P. Scott I Wanna Rock: The '80s Metal Dream Tyler Measom 2025-2026 The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets Jared P. Scott
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