Let’s tell stories together…

eliot grigo

eliot grigo

  • 'The Rite of Spring' Short Film

    'The Rite of Spring'

  • 'Classmates' Short Film

    'Classmates'

  • 'La Mujer de Hector' Short Film

    'La Mujer de Hector'

  • 'The Screen' Experimental Film

    'The Screen'

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Why I visualize stories…

Cinematography, for me, is about articulating powerful stories that investigate culture, create communal joy, or illustrate unspoken and visual poetry in our world. My priority as a Cinematographer is to visually translate your script, commercial, or creative idea by asking probing questions to discover a deeper understanding of story, tone, and artistic goals.

Together, we collaborate to create stunning images that portray meaningful ideas.

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Two weeks ago I announced the fundraising campaign for my 2nd Year Visual Essay, at the @americanfilminstitute, and I’m thankful to say we are already 25% funded! (Swipe to watch me pitch the movie on my bike.) ‘Camino’ is a medita
AFI Cinematography Class of 2025 ended our 1st Year at @americanfilminstitute with an incredible action workshop at @chapman_leonard. We had the opportunity to demo and take a look at industry standard cranes, gimbals, dollies, and more. What an incr
‘The Rite of Spring,’ had its world premiere this past Sunday at the 10th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (@middfilmfest) in Vermont. The whole team should be proud of this film–a small crew, shot over a weekend (family st
I’m back in New York right now, working and visiting family, a year after moving to Los Angeles. I brought some rolls from my refrigerator in LA to get them developed at my favorite film lab in SoHo. These shots of liminal spaces were taken las
From a trip to Joshua Tree this Spring—truly one of the most stunning places I’ve ever seen. I did shoot some color film, but there’s something quite elegant with black and white in the desert. These photographs are on @kodak 5222,
Presenting my completed 1st Year Visual Essay at AFI Conservatory, ‘The Screen’! An exercise in poetic visual storytelling, and this film had some challenging rules! Done with one roll of Kodak 5222 film stock; singular takes only for eac
Will be screening and analyzing dailies this Thursday, from @kuba_zagajewski_dp and I’s Co-DP Lab. We tackled the look of ‘underexposure’ on film (5219, 500T), and tried some new things—like working with the 10k and 3.6k SoftS
Pleased to share stills from my first film as a cinematographer at @americanfilminstitute thus far, “18.81”. This short gave me the opportunity to learn from five other incredibly talented Fellows; each of them taught me important lessons

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