Sean Price Williams

Tall, smart, and strange, Sean Price Williams is a human camera. He tells stories about people, frequently American, frequently on society's cusp, whose electric and whirring inner mental lives explode into the tangible—that is, onto the screen—by some manner of divine and chaotic revelation. Though Williams works in a collaborative medium, and has worked with the likes of Alex Ross Perry and the Safdie Brothers, his style is indelibly his own. For that reason, he is in high demand among New York's elite arthouse set, having been described by The New Yorker's Richard Brody as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary." In 2023, he made his directorial debut with The Sweet East, a film that proves that we—the industry, the people—need Williams more than he needs us.