https://www.richardjneedham.com/one daily 0.75 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/a1309a38-f09b-420a-a3b1-cc6381ef4d6f/526_7-Dara-Friedman-Gavin-Brown-s-enterprise.jpg Camera Left and right; Photographs of still images taken from Dancer hang on a New York City street to promote a gallery show. We filmed Dancer in Miami with a super 16mm Bolex. The film is a series of vignettes in which performers, professional and amateur move through public spaces as the backdrop. I don’t know whether it’s true but I’ve heard that Dancer was the inspiration for Pharrel’s 24-hour Happy music video. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/694a4704-c322-4f96-af65-b730e535b2e4/526_5-Dara-Friedman-Gavin-Brown-s-enterprise.jpg Camera Images left and right courtesy, Dara Friedman and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/6ef3c5bb-c9b6-4038-8432-11e8fbe952ac/3952_content_dancer.jpg Camera More frame grabs from Dancer, 2012 ©Dara Friedman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/e17f0008-70a9-4dfd-b620-76d860175cb3/6707_8-Dara-Friedman-Supportico-Lopez.jpg Camera Installation: Dara Friedman’s Dichter, 2017 courtesy the artist and Gallery Supportico Lopez, Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/136d4754-ec19-476a-ac79-4e49032c4aed/Screen+Shot+2022-03-05+at+2.36.30+PM.jpg Camera - Still Camera The focus of my work is documentary video and film but I also shoot stills. While the disciplines are different, I learn storytelling from both formats, working to capture the unique spirit of people and places. https://www.richardjneedham.com/about daily 0.75 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/540fa24e-ca12-4bd4-b4f5-f273cb81a229/Mother+Drum+Shoot.jpg About - Hi! As you may have already guessed, my name is Richard Needham. I’m a documentary producer, editor, and cameraman. Thanks for dropping in and welcome. I trained in theater at Wake Forest University in North Carolina where I was lucky enough to learn from Maya Angelou, James Dodding, and Marcel Marceau, and, later, I moved on to film. I earned my M.F.A in film from the University of Miami School of Communications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/2fb64c18-8da1-42e8-bc43-8c19ae9d1750/32423156_1659381924181814_6903906967631167488_n.jpg About - Early on I worked in music videos, commercials, and narrative films. Later, after working on Kevin Macdonald’s Academy Award-winning documentary, “One Day in September,” I began to work in the genre myself. At Kevin’s suggestion, I produced a full-length documentary film of my own, “The Ticket,” which is about lottery winners and the people who surround them. Subsequent projects have included traveling to Mongolia 5 times to cover the impact of mining on nomadic cultures, saving the Tsaatan way of life, and to support the delivery of modern prosthetics to amputees in UlaanBaatar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/4dc6b8a4-1eb8-4270-b7b4-9e42178eb092/FightTempleDoor-rafaeldalo-01.jpg About If anything sums up my work, perhaps it is that I like to discover and share “happenings,” spontaneous events that happen only once like acts of theater. There may be a plan in place but then having the opportunity to play around in real-time is very much where I feel at home. This is perhaps most encapsulated in the camera work that I do for artist Dara Friedman, whom I met in film school. At this point, I have worked on about 15 of Dara’s films, which have been exhibited around the world. https://www.richardjneedham.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-03-02 https://www.richardjneedham.com/two daily 1.0 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621f7ad7ffcf7e3b5ab5207e/64e3d2bc-3d8f-4713-b7f1-393d017440aa/Reindeer+settle+in+for+the+night.jpg Home - “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Reindeer settle down for the night at a Tsaatan summer camp, Mongolia Photo © Richard Needham 2013 https://www.richardjneedham.com/filmography daily 0.75 2022-03-09