Jody Lee Lipes

Jody Lee Lipes is an American cinematographer and filmmaker.

Life and career

A native of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Lipes attended New York University, where he studied film. He worked extensively on short films before serving as cinematographer on Afterschool, directed by Antonio Campos and Tiny Furniture, directed by Lena Dunham.
Lipes would collaborate with Dunham again as cinematographer and director for several episodes of her HBO series Girls. Lipes would later work as cinematographer for Girls producer Judd Apatow's comedy Trainwreck, starring Amy Schumer.
Lipes worked as cinematographer for Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which he shot digitally. He also shot A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller, and The Good Nurse, directed by Tobias Lindholm. Lipes was also the cinematographer for Savanah Leaf's Earth Mama in 2023.
As a director, he helmed a documentary on the NY Export Opus Jazz ballet, which had a screening at the annual South by Southwest festival, and the documentary Ballet 422, which screened at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.
Lipes became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 2021.

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2008	Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell	Matt Wolf
2009	Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same	Himself
2010	N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz	Himself
2012	Brute Force	Ben Steinbauer
2014	The Great Invisible	Magaret Brown	With Jeff Peixoto and Adam Stone
2014	Ballet 422	Himself	With Nick Bentgen

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2009	High Line Stories	Matt Wolf
2013	Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film	Mark Romanek	TV short
2015	Independent Lens	Margaret Brown	Episode "The Great Invisible"
2025	Number One on the Call Sheet	Shola Lynch	Episode "Black Leading Women in Hollywood"

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2009	Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
2010	N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz
2014	Ballet 422

Television

Year	Title	Episodes
2012	Girls	"Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident"
2012	Girls	"Weirdos Need Girlfriends Too"
2017-2018	The Sinner	"Part IV"
2017-2018	The Sinner	"Part VI"