Known for Camera
Sonja Tsypin is a cinematographer from New York City. Sonja earned her master's degree at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, CA and now works across the U.S. and internationally on narrative, music video and commercial projects. Sonja's work is informed by her background in fine arts as a painter as well as by her upbringing as a first generation Russian-American.
Filmography
15 films, 1 show


Girls Like Girls
2026 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After her mother's passing, 17-year-old Coley navigates new feelings of intimacy with Sonya in rural Oregon, where both girls must overcome their mutual uncertainties and self-doubt to embrace their connection.


Last Night
2024 · 11m
country: Unknown
Confronted by her boyfriend's insecurities about their relationship, Claire is forced to come to terms with the realities that took place the night prior.


Pruning
2023 · 14m
country: United States
When a far-right political commentator discovers she has inspired a mass shooting, she must contend with her conscience – by any means necessary.


The Yellow Wallpaper
2022 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A dark and disturbing adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s controversial gothic feminist horror story about patriarchy and hysteria. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she must free.


Disciple
2021 · 28m
country: Unknown
A different kind of coming out. When a young moody Millennial reveals his HIV status in a queer support group, it sends Poe, a not so traditional gay priest who mentors the group, in search of his own inner truth.


ZONA
2021 · 15m
country: Unknown
In a near future Los Angeles, drought has worsened and the water supply is cut off. Masami Kawai’s visionary and atmospheric lo-fi sci-fi depicts an elder immigrant woman braving the sweltering heat and policed streets to procure water for herself and her disabled neighbor. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film


Hello, Goodbye
2019 · 4m
country: Canada
An entire relationship in its first and last moments.


Scare Package
2019 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Chad Buckley is super crazy about horror movies, but also very lonely. He mostly spends his days in his small movie shop having wild discussions with his only returning customer, Sam.


In Other Words
2019 · 7m
country: Unknown
Ex-lovers meet to return each other's things. What they say and think is different.


The Naked Woman
2019 · 16m
country: United States
Two generations of Russian immigrants go to the country for a birthday, but when someone witnesses a mysterious violent crime, a shadow is cast over the weekend.


To Infinity
2017 · 12m
country: Unknown
A dying father helps his young daughter carry an imaginary mission into space in order to reunite her with her mother; which leads to an unimaginable revelation.


The Yellow Wallpaper
2011 · 1h 55m
country: United States
The Yellow Wallpaper (Motion Picture) is an "Origins Myth"... rather than a direct adaptation of the famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman story. Drawing from the original short story and a number of Gilmans' other gothic works (The Giant Wisteria, The Unwatched Door, etc.), The Yellow Wallpaper is an original narrative of events that unfold around the actual writing of "The Yellow Wallpaper" short story. After a devastating fire, Charlotte and John rent a countryside house and attempt to start life over, though Charlotte, upon seeing visions of her deceased daughter, retreats to the house's attic and pulls away from her husband and sister. Written by Max Visconti