REC REEL 2026 · SELECTED WORK

Jonas Brandt

Photographer & film director

Films and photographs made in the last light of the day — where colour turns honest and faces stop performing.

Feature film

The Salt Year

Direction2025North Sea — available light
EXT. — DAWN · 2.39:1 · 35MM · 54.0°N
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Selected work

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Moving image

FEATURE · 2.39:1 98 MIN
Featured film

The Salt Year

A fisherman’s widow returns to the coast she swore off, and learns the tide keeps a longer memory than she does. Shot over three winters on the North Sea — entirely in available light.

  • DirectionJonas Brandt
  • PhotographyJonas Brandt · Ida Vollmer
  • WithMargrethe Sund, Aksel Røe
  • PremiereCamerimage 2025 — Official Selection
Watch trailer · 02:14
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The eye behind it

PORTRAIT · STUDIO 4, BERLIN
About

Jonas Brandt

I work in the near-dark — the last hour before nightfall, the first before dawn. That is where colour turns honest and a face forgets it is being watched.

Over twelve years I have moved between long-form documentary, narrative shorts and commissioned film, always circling the same question: what does a single frame remember? I shoot on film when the story asks for patience, and I light with whatever the room already has.

12yr
In practice
47
Films & campaigns
9
Festival selections
3
Continents shot

Recognition

  • 2025Camerimage — Cinematographers’ Debuts, Official Selection
  • 2024AICP Next Awards — Cinematography, Winner
  • 2024British Arrows Craft — Shortlist
  • 2023SXSW — Documentary Shorts, Official Selection
  • 2022Aesthetica Short Film Festival — Best Cinematography

Trusted by

MUBI Aésop Leica Kinfolk NOWNESS The Gentlewoman Freunde von Freunden
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Let’s make something that stays with people.

Available for select commissions, Q3–Q4 2026. Features and long-form considered by treatment.

COMMISSIONED FILM FROM €9,000 / DAY · STILLS FROM €4,500 / DAY