Sean Price Williams

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Sean Price Williams

Born 1977-08-01 · Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Sean Price Williams is an American cinematographer and film director. Williams is known for his work as a cinematographer, frequently collaborating with Alex Ross Perry and the Safdie Brothers. He made his directorial feature film debut with The Sweet East.

Acting credits

Daddy Longlegs poster
6.6

After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.

Daddy Longlegs

2010

The Sweet East poster
6.5

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

The Sweet East

2023

Yeast poster
5.6

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.

Yeast

2008

Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie poster
7.0

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and shorts. Produced by the Criterion Channel for their "Meet the Filmmakers" series.

Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie

2017

Alexander the Last poster
4.6

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

Alexander the Last

2009

Kim's Video poster
6.9

Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim's Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes.

Kim's Video

2023

Hellaware poster
5.2

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows

Hellaware

2013

A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What poster
NR

The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes.

A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What

2015

Carol & Joy poster
7.0

98-year-old Joy Kane, a music teacher and ex-dancer, shares stories and plays piano with her daughter Carol. Their afternoon together reveals artistic lives, family bonds, and their paths across two centuries.

Carol & Joy

2025

Silver Bullets poster
4.1

An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.

Silver Bullets

2011

Temporary Color poster
NR

A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts.

Temporary Color

2016

Honky Kong poster
NR

A soul-battered New York chef begins unraveling during a trip to Hong Kong.

Honky Kong

2021

Jobe'z World poster
5.1

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies.

Jobe'z World

2019

Happy Life poster
5.0

New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the early '90s.

Happy Life

2011

No artwork available
NR

Cinematographers Ben Kasulke and Sean Price Williams discuss their relationship to and the cinematography of Letter from an Unknown Woman. An extra on Olive Signature's Blu-Ray release of Letter from an Unknown Woman.

Ophülsesque: The Look of Letter from an Unknown Woman

2017

Behind the camera