Ken Kelsch
- Camera
- July 8, 1947 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- December 11, 2023
Biography
Kenneth Arthur Kelsch (July 8, 1947 – December 11, 2023) was an American cinematographer. He was best known for his guerilla filmmaking style and his career-spanning partnership with filmmaker Abel Ferrara, with whom he made more than a dozen films, including The Driller Killer (1979), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Dangerous Game (1993), The Addiction (1995), The Blackout (1997), and Welcome to New York (2014), as well as a segment of the HBO dark comedy drama anthology series Subway Stories (1997).
Known for
Filmography
- Twisted Tale: The Unmaking of Spookies · Self
- The Projectionist · Cinematography
- Talking with the Vampires · Cinematography
- The Brooklyn Banker · Cinematography
- Welcome to New York · Cinematography
- House of Last Things · Cinematography
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth · Cinematography
- Desert Flower · Cinematography
- Sıcak · Cinematography
- Return to Sleepaway Camp · Cinematography
- 100 Feet · Garbage Man, Cinematography
- Chelsea on the Rocks · Cinematography
- Before It Had a Name · Cinematography
- Medium · Cinematography
- Missing in America · Cinematography
- Happy End · Cinematography
- Asmalı Konak: Hayat · Cinematography
- Testosterone · Cinematography
- 'R Xmas · Cinematography
- It Had to Be You · Cinematography
- New Rose Hotel · The Expeditor, Cinematography
- Invisible Child · Cinematography
- Rear Window · Cinematography
- Susan's Plan · Casino Pit Boss, Cinematography
- The Impostors · Cinematography
- Montana · Cinematography
- A Brooklyn State of Mind · Cinematography
- Every 9 Seconds · Cinematography
- Subway Stories · Cinematography
- The Blackout · Cinematography
- The Prosecutors · Cinematography
- Big Night · Cinematography
- Killer: A Journal of Murder · Cinematography
- The Funeral · Cinematography
- Condition Red · Cinematography
- The Addiction · Cinematography
- Drop Squad · Cinematography
- Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker · Cinematography
- Dangerous Game · Camera Operator (uncredited), Cinematography
- Bad Lieutenant · Cinematography
- Killer Dead · Cinematography
- Spookies · Cinematography
- In Our Water · Additional Camera
- Don't Go in the House
- The Driller Killer · Cinematography
- Manson Girls · Cinematography