Jody Lee Lipes

Jody Lee Lipes (born January 18, 1982) is an American cinematographer and filmmaker.

Life and career

A native of Doylestown, Pennsylvania,^[1] Lipes attended New York University, where he studied film. He worked extensively on short films before serving as cinematographer on Afterschool, directed by Antonio Campos and Tiny Furniture, directed by Lena Dunham.

Lipes would collaborate with Dunham again as cinematographer and director for several episodes of her HBO series Girls.^[2] Lipes would later work as cinematographer for Girls producer Judd Apatow's comedy Trainwreck, starring Amy Schumer.^[3]

Lipes worked as cinematographer for Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which he shot digitally.^[4] He also shot A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller, and The Good Nurse, directed by Tobias Lindholm.^[5][6] Lipes was also the cinematographer for Savanah Leaf's Earth Mama in 2023.^[7]

As a director, he helmed a documentary on the NY Export Opus Jazz ballet, which had a screening at the annual South by Southwest festival, and the documentary Ballet 422, which screened at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.^[8]

Lipes became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) in 2021.^[9]

Filmography

Director

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2009	Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same	Yes	Yes	Yes
2010	N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz	Yes	Yes	No
2014	Ballet 422	Yes	No	No

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2012	Girls	Episodes "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident" and "Weirdos Need Girlfriends Too"
2017-2018	The Sinner	Episodes "Part IV" and "Part VI"

Cinematographer

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2008	Afterschool	Antonio Campos
2010	Tiny Furniture	Lena Dunham
	Two Gates of Sleep	Alistair Banks Griffin
2011	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Sean Durkin
2013	Bluebird	Lance Edmands	Also credited as second unit director
2015	Trainwreck	Judd Apatow
2016	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
2019	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Marielle Heller
2022	The Good Nurse	Tobias Lindholm
2023	Earth Mama	Savanah Leaf
2025	I Don't Work for Peanuts, I Work for God	Andrew Dominik

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2007	We Are Internet Millionaires	Dan Gregor Doug Mand Adam Pally	TV shorts
	Sell Outs
2007-2008	The Whitest Kids U' Know	Trevor Moore Zach Cregger Dave Diomedi	20 episodes
2012	Girls	Lena Dunham Richard Shepard	7 episodes
2013	The Sonnet Project	R Jameson Smith	Episode "Sonnet #14"
2017	The Sinner	Antonio Campos	Episode "Part I"
2018	Drew Michael	Jerrod Carmichael	TV special
2020	I Know This Much Is True	Derek Cianfrance	Miniseries
2023	Dead Ringers	Sean Durkin	2 episodes
2024	The Listeners	Janicza Bravo	All 4 episodes

Documentary works

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2008	Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell	Matt Wolf
2009	Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same	Himself
2010	N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz
2012	Brute Force	Ben Steinbauer
2014	The Great Invisible	Magaret Brown	With Jeff Peixoto and Adam Stone
	Ballet 422	Himself	With Nick Bentgen

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2009	High Line Stories	Matt Wolf
2013	Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film	Mark Romanek	TV short
2015	Independent Lens	Margaret Brown	Episode "The Great Invisible"

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result
2010	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Cinematography	Tiny Furniture	Nominated
2023	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series	Dead Ringers	Nominated

References

1. ’Manchester By the Sea” cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes tops list of area entertainers in 2016
2. A SPIRITED Q & A WITH “TINY FURNITURE” CINEMATOGRAPHER JODY LEE LIPES
3. “It’s Almost Impossible to Watch Something That was Shot on Film Projected on Film”: DP Jody Lee Lipes on Trainwreck
4. ‘Manchester By the Sea’: How Kenneth Lonergan & Crew Made a Non-Linear Masterpiece
5. Dillon, Mark (December 10, 2019). "Jody Lee Lipes on Shooting A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood". American Cinematographer. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
6. Ntim, Zac (September 12, 2022). "Jessica Chastain And Eddie Redmayne On Finding Humanity In Their Serial Killer Film 'The Good Nurse' — Toronto". Deadline. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
7. Debruge, Peter (January 20, 2023). "'Earth Mama' Review: Savanah Leaf's Feature Debut Offers Tough but Sensitive Look at Single Mother's Struggle". Variety. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
8. Ballet 422
9. Dillard, Samantha (March 17, 2021). "Jody Lee Lipes Welcomed Into Society Membership". American Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved April 1, 2021.

External links

• Jody Lee Lipes at the Internet Movie Database