Kathleen Beeler is an American

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

, best known for her work with

Trinh T. Minh-ha Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952 in Hanoi; Vietnamese: Trịnh Thị Minh Hà) is a Vietnamese filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor. She has been making films for over thirty years and may be best known for her films Reassemb ...

and

Lynn Hershman Leeson Lynn Hershman Leeson (née Lynn Lester Hershman; born 1941) is a multimedia American artist and filmmaker. Her work combines art with social commentary, particularly on the relationship between people and technology. Leeson is a pioneer in new med ...

. She got her start working with

Mike B. Anderson Mike B. Anderson, sometimes credited as Mikel B. Anderson, is an American television director who works on ''The Simpsons'' and has directed numerous episodes of the show, and was animated in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" as cadet Anderson. W ...

on '' Alone in the T-Shirt Zone'', which she co-wrote, produced, was

production designer In film and television, the production designer is the individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story. The production design gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings. Wo ...

, and acted in. She also shot Anderson's ''

Kamillions ''Kamillions'' is a 1990 film directed by Mikel B. Anderson from a story by Robert Hsi and a screenplay Anderson wrote in collaboration with Harry S. Robins. The film was re-edited by producer Teresa Woo, who later admitted she did not really un ...

'' and has done special effects photography for numerous higher-profile films. Beeler, along with

, won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 1992

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for her work on the documentary ''Shoot for the Contents.

Filmography

*'' Star Worms II: Attack of the Pleasure Pods'' (1985) (cinematographer) *'' Alone in the T-Shirt Zone'' (1986) (cinematographer) *'' Morgan's Cake'' (1988) (cinematographer) *''

'' (1989) (cinematographer) *'' Surname Viet Given Name Nam'' (1989) (cinematographer) *'' Shoot for the Contents'' (1992) (cinematographer) *'' Virtual Love'' (1993) (cinematographer) *'' The Hanged Man'' (1993) (cinematographer) *'' Seduction of a Cyborg'' (1994) (cinematographer) *'' Double Cross Click Click'' (1995) (cinematographer) *'' A Tale of Love'' (1995) (cinematographer) *'' Conceiving Ada'' (1997) (second unit camera operator)

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American cinematographers American women screenwriters American screenwriters American production designers American film producers American film actresses Special effects people American women cinematographers American women film producers Women production designers Production designers 21st-century American women {{US-cinematographer-stub