Known for Camera
Chayse Irvin is a Canadian/American cinematographer best known for his collaborations with Director/Artist Kahlil Joseph. Chayse's first feature film as a cinematographer was Medeas (2013) in which he won the prestigious "Best Cinematography Debut" at the Camerimage Film Festival. Soon after, Chayse began collaborating with Kahlil Joesph on numerous works of art, eventually collaborating on Beyonce's Lemonade in 2016. In 2017 at the Cannes Lions festival, Chayse won Gold for Sampha "Process", Silver for John Malkovich x Squarespace, and Bronze for Apple Watch Series 2 "Go Time". In the same year Andrea Poloraro's "Hannah" took home the Best Actress award for Charlotte Rampling and soon after Won, Silver Hugo Best Cinematography at the Chicago International Film Festival. Chayse is a Canadian Society of Cinematographers member and resides in Brooklyn New York.
Birthplace
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Filmography
23 films


Romeo + Juliet
2026 · 16m · US
An original and danced adaptation of the Shakespeare classic.


Hurry Up Tomorrow
2025 · 1h 45m · US
A musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence.


Mother, Couch
2024 · 1h 36m · DK
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches.


God's Creatures
2022 · 1h 41m · IE
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.


Blonde
2022 · 2h 47m · US
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.


Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
2021 · 34m · FR
In 1970, Black educators in Chicago developed an alphabet flashcard set to provide Blackcentered teaching materials to the vastly white educational landscape and the Black ABCs were born.


Solange: When I Get Home
2019 · 41m · US
In the three years since her seminal album "A Seat at the Table", Solange has broadened her artistic reach, expanding her work to museum installations, unconventional live performances, and striking videos. With her fourth album, "When I Get Home", the singer continues to push her vision forward with an exploration of roots and their lifelong influence. In Solange's case, that's the culturally rich Houston of her childhood. Some will know these references - candy paint, the late legend DJ Screw - via the city's mid-aughts hip-hop explosion, but through Solange's lens, these same touchstones are elevated to high art.


BlacKkKlansman
2018 · 2h 16m · US
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.


Pass Over
2018 · 1h 15m
Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.


Hannah
2018 · 1h 35m · IT
A woman grapples with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.


Godless
2016 · 1h 39m · BG
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.


Lemonade
2016 · 1h 5m · US
The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.


Brightest Star
2013 · 1h 20m · US
A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.


Medeas
2013 · 1h 38m · MX
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Empyrean
Empyrean
2013 · 18m · US
When her father is suddenly diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, Sadie returns home to help her family care for him while struggling to accept the chaos within his mind, her family and herself.


The ABCs of Death
2013 · 2h 9m · NZ
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.


Afternoon Tea
2011 · 13m
An elderly Indian grandfather`s life changes when a Caucasian boy knocks on his door by chance.


Fragile
2009 · 23m
Out of options, Kathleen, an estranged wife suffering from kidney failure, descends into the gritty underworld of black market human organ trafficking.


Ashes Fall
2007 · 24m
When a car bomb devastates a Nigerian neighborhood, victims flood a small, unequipped relief shelter. After one of the victims is identified as the bomber, Joanna, a volunteer doctor, must stand between a UN Peacekeeper who watched his friend die and the man possibly responsible for the explosion.