Professor Professor
Rob Tregenza is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker whose work as a director, cinematographer, editor, and producer has been celebrated at major festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, and Sundance. He has written, directed, and shot five feature films—Talking to Strangers, The Arc, Inside/Out, Gavagai, and The Fishing Place—all captured on 35mm and widely praised for their formal rigor and emotional depth. His films have received critical acclaim, including recognition from Jean-Luc Godard and a major retrospective at MoMA (Thinking With Cinema, 2023).
His award-winning feature film Gavagai was shot on 35mm motion picture film in Norway and released theatrically in 2018. It earned the #5 spot on Metacritic’s top films of 2018. Link: https://mubi.com/en/lists/
Richard Brody of The New Yorker writes:
“Not only is he an artist; he’s an artisan of the highest order, whose sense of craft and skill are finer, deeper, and more adventurous than most of the competition in Hollywood—or, for that matter, anywhere. Very few of the year’s officially acclaimed and critically lauded cinematographers can match him in audacity and in achievement; none of the five Oscar-nominated directors unites a world view and an aesthetic as staunchly or deeply.”
Tregenza holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and has worked as a commercial director, international cinematographer, and distributor for influential auteurs such as Jacques Rivette, Michael Haneke, and Béla Tarr. His book Rob Tregenza: Mise-en-scène was published in 2023 by the Polish National Film School in Łódź. Four of his features are part of MoMA’s permanent collection.