Mead Hunt

Biography

Mead Hunt is a cinematographer and director known for The German-Americans: 300 Years in the New Land (1983), Ralph Erskine (1986) and Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism (1988).

Career Overview

Mead Hunt has 49 screen credits in a career dating back to 1979. Signature works include Baseball, Glorious Technicolor, Hollywood Mavericks. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Camera

Gender

male

Known Credits

49

Known For

• 

  Baseball
• 

  Glorious Technicolor
• 

  Hollywood Mavericks
• 

  Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
• Inspirations and Ideas
• 

  Stardust: A Story of Love and Architecture

Frequent Collaborators

• John Chancellor (1 collaborations)
• Daniel Okrent (1 collaborations)
• Buck O'Neil (1 collaborations)
• Studs Terkel (1 collaborations)
• Angela Lansbury (1 collaborations)
• Esther Williams (1 collaborations)
• Arlene Dahl (1 collaborations)
• Evelyn Keyes (1 collaborations)
• Jack Cardiff (1 collaborations)
• Vittorio Storaro (1 collaborations)

Credits

• camera (40 credits)

  • Inspirations and Ideas

    camera operator

    camera
    2026
  • Stardust: A Story of Love and Architecture

    director of photography

    camera
    2026
  • Stardust: A Story of Love and Architecture

    director of photography

    camera
    2025
  • Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

    director of photography

    camera
    2023
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    director of photography

    camera
    2019
  • In Full Swing

    camera operator

    camera
    2019
  • Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'

    camera operator

    camera
    2019
  • Way Out on a Limb

    camera operator

    camera
    2016
  • George Segal

    director of photography

    camera
    2016
  • The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham

    director of photography

    camera
    2014
  • Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital

    director of photography

    camera
    2014
  • Katie Does Manhattan

    additional camera

    camera
    2012
  • The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

    director of photography

    camera
    2012
  • Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

    director of photography

    camera
    2012
  • Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

    director of photography

    camera
    2012
  • Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice

    director of photography

    camera
    2012
  • CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution

    camera operator

    camera
    2009
  • Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine

    director of photography

    camera
    2008
  • Katie Morgan on Sex Toys

    additional camera

    camera
    2007
  • Jeff Wall: Retrospective

    director of photography

    camera
    2007
  • Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

    director of photography

    camera
    2007
  • Discovering William Greaves

    camera operator

    camera
    2006
  • The Iceman and the Psychiatrist

    director of photography

    camera
    2004
  • The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

    director of photography

    camera
    2004
  • Conversations with Philip Guston

    director of photography

    camera
    2003
  • Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades

    director of photography

    camera
    2001
  • Sound and Fury

    camera operator

    camera
    2000
  • Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    director of photography

    camera
    1999
  • Glorious Technicolor

    director of photography

    camera
    1998
  • Baseball

    additional director of photography

    camera

    - Inning Nine: Home (1994) ... additional director of photography camera

    - Inning Eight: A Whole New Ball Game (1994) ... additional director of photography camera

    - Inning Seven: The Capitol of Baseball (1994) ... additional director of photography camera

    - Inning Six: The National Pastime (1994) ... additional director of photography camera

    - Inning Five: Shadow Ball (1994) ... additional director of photography camera
    1994
  • Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy

    director of photography

    camera
    1994
  • The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

    director of photography

    camera
    1993
  • After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence

    director of photography

    camera
    1992
  • Hollywood Mavericks

    director of photography

    camera
    1990
  • Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

    director of photography

    camera
    1989
  • A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera

    director of photography

    camera
    1986
  • Empire City

    director of photography

    camera
    1985
  • Philip Guston: A Life Lived

    director of photography

    camera
    1982
  • We Were German Jews

    director of photography

    camera
    1981
  • Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

    director of photography

    camera
    1980

• crew (8 credits)

  • Miles Goes Modal

    cinematography

    crew
    2026
  • Making Mishima

    cinematography

    crew
    2008
  • Holiday Train Show With David Hartman

    cinematography

    crew
    2007
  • Louis Kahn: Silence and Light

    cinematography

    crew
    1996
  • 4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg

    cinematography

    crew
    1988
  • Mies

    cinematography

    crew
    1986
  • Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective

    cinematography

    crew
    1979
  • Working with Einstein

    cinematography

    crew
    1979

• directing (1 credits)

  • Ralph Erskine

    director

    directing
    1986