Filmmaker Berlin — Music Videos, Tour Documentation & Documentary Film

Filmmaker Berlin — Music Videos, Tour Documentation & Documentary Film

Film and photography share the same foundation — light, timing, the understanding of what a body does in space before it does it. What they diverge on is duration: photography isolates a moment, film asks what happens around it.

I'm Aaron Jack, a filmmaker and photographer based in Berlin. My film work spans music videos, tour documentation, live studio production, documentary projects, and live performance film. I shoot with the same editorial instinct I bring to published photography — which means the work looks like it belongs in the world, not just on a hard drive.

Multi-camera studio production

A significant part of my film work is live studio production — setting up three to twelve cameras in a recording or rehearsal space and capturing full performances in a single take, with no post-production safety net. This format requires a different kind of discipline than a planned shoot: you're building the edit in real time through camera placement and operator coordination, not in the edit bay afterward.

I've operated multi-camera studio productions both as a solo operator — managing the full camera array myself — and as a production director coordinating teams of moving camera operators. My work with Richie Cole and at Slippery Rock University involved 12-camera setups capturing live jazz performances. These productions have ranged from intimate studio sessions to full concert configurations, and the through-line is always the same: getting the best possible live document of the music as it actually happens.

Tour documentation

Touring with a musician is a different discipline from a planned production. You're working with available light, compressed schedules, emotional stakes you didn't create and can't control, and the knowledge that the moment is happening once. The job is to be invisible enough that the music stays the subject, and present enough that nothing important passes unrecorded.

My tour film work includes the Ukulele Death Squad Germany tour (2024) — for which we took over the Schiller Theater in Berlin, with a live audio setup and everyone recorded simultaneously live — the Richie Cole and Alto Madness Orchestra Las Vegas tour (photography, film, and management), Marc Reisman and Band Spain tour (photography, film, live 360 film, and social media), and the Pillow Project Dance Company Paris tour (photography and film). Each was a different context — different music, different production scale, different country — but the same discipline: be there, see clearly, get what matters.

Live performance and immersive audio-visual work

In 2021, I worked with musician Christen Lien on a Clubhouse concert series — three concerts per week, five weeks, with audiences of 1,500 to 3,000 people per session, consistently ranking in the top ten rooms on the platform. Clubhouse was an audio-only platform, which meant the entire visual identity of the concerts had to be built from the only visual element available: profile pictures. Working within that constraint, I created immersive visual experiences that functioned simultaneously as digital fashion, healing journey markers, and community belonging signals — building a coherent aesthetic world out of a medium that wasn't designed for it.

The Interloops project extended this further — co-creating immersive theatre and audio-visual experiences on Clubhouse, including a collaboration with Jim Green, NASA's lead scientist, on a sonic and visual journey to Mars and back. Again, working entirely within the platform's limited visual vocabulary to produce something that felt genuinely immersive.

Both projects taught the same lesson: constraint is not the opposite of creativity. Sometimes the limitation is the brief.

Music video production

Music videos for Berlin-based and international artists — from single-camera narrative treatments to multi-location productions. I approach music video work from the director's chair and the camera simultaneously, which keeps productions lean without sacrificing visual ambition. Berlin's extraordinary location landscape — architecture, industrial spaces, natural light, diverse neighbourhoods — is a resource I know how to use.

What I offer

Music video production · Multi-camera live studio production · Tour documentation (single-date or full tour) · Live performance film · Concert and event documentary · Social media video content · Short-form documentary for artists, galleries, and cultural institutions.

Available for Berlin-based productions and international work. For music videos and tour documentation, I work with a lean production model that keeps budgets sensible without compromising on craft.

To discuss a film project, contact via this site with a brief description of the project, timeline, and budget range.

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