Murat Eyuboglu is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, cinematographer, and writer who specializes in visually driven documentary storytelling and nimble, well-run productions. He develops concepts and scripts, shoots in the field (often in remote environments), and then supervises post from offline through final delivery—partnering with specialist editors, colorists, and sound designers when a project needs deeper finishing firepower. His work includes the feature documentary The Colorado (director/producer/cinematographer/co-writer), the dance-on-film Houses of Zodiac (premiered at The Broad Museum), and Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon (assistant director). Shorter works include Mother of the Air and Land, Water, Life, made in collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Amazon. He is currently finishing Dreams of Muri (feature doc) and producing The Amazon, a long-form project on the social and ecological history of the river basin. With a PhD in musicology, a decade of university teaching, and years as Managing Editor at RILM, Murat brings strong research, structure, and pacing to story-driven films—without pretending one person should do every job. He’s available for directing, field producing, cinematography, and post-production coordination.

MURAT EYUBOGLU

Murat Eyuboglu is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, cinematographer, and writer who specializes in visually driven documentary storytelling and nimble, well-run productions. He develops concepts and scripts, shoots in the field (often in remote environments), and then supervises post from offline through final delivery—partnering with specialist editors, colorists, and sound designers when a project needs deeper finishing firepower. His work includes the feature documentary The Colorado (director/producer/cinematographer/co-writer), the dance-on-film Houses of Zodiac (premiered at The Broad Museum), and Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon (assistant director). Shorter works include Mother of the Air and Land, Water, Life, made in collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Amazon. He is currently finishing Dreams of Muri (feature doc) and producing The Amazon, a long-form project on the social and ecological history of the river basin. With a PhD in musicology, a decade of university teaching, and years as Managing Editor at RILM, Murat brings strong research, structure, and pacing to story-driven films—without pretending one person should do every job. He’s available for directing, field producing, cinematography, and post-production coordination.

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Murat Eyuboglu is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, cinematographer, and writer who specializes in visually driven documentary storytelling and nimble, well-run productions. He develops concepts and scripts, shoots in the field (often in remote environments), and then supervises post from offline through final delivery—partnering with specialist editors, colorists, and sound designers when a project needs deeper finishing firepower. His work includes the feature documentary The Colorado (director/producer/cinematographer/co-writer), the dance-on-film Houses of Zodiac (premiered at The Broad Museum), and Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon (assistant director). Shorter works include Mother of the Air and Land, Water, Life, made in collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Amazon. He is currently finishing Dreams of Muri (feature doc) and producing The Amazon, a long-form project on the social and ecological history of the river basin. With a PhD in musicology, a decade of university teaching, and years as Managing Editor at RILM, Murat brings strong research, structure, and pacing to story-driven films—without pretending one person should do every job. He’s available for directing, field producing, cinematography, and post-production coordination.

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Experience Level

Intermediate

Language

French
Advanced
English
Fluent
Turkish
Fluent

Work Experience

Director, Producer at Dreams of Muri
January 1, 2026 - Present
A commemorative film on the celebrated shaman and storyteller Awapatuka “Muri” Waurá.
Director, Producer, Cinematographer at Houses of Zodiac
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022
A 60-minute dance-on-film project premièred at The Broad Museum, Los Angeles.
Director, Producer at Mother of the Air
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
A short film on the Amazonian fires of August, 2019, focusing on the Mamoré Basin, Brazil.
Director, Producer, Cinematographer at Land, Water, Life
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019
A short film on the attitudes of the Peruvian Ashaninka People towards land and water.
Producer at The Colorado
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018
A comprehensive companion book for The Colorado documentary, 270 pages, 400+ illustrations.
Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Co-Writer at The Colorado
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
A feature-length documentary on the social and ecological history of the Colorado River Basin.
Producer, Photographer at Letters to Distant Cities
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011
A multi-media album featuring the work of Shara Nova, Rob Moose and Mustafa Ziyalan.
Contributing Photographer at Retour sous les tropique – National Geographic, France
November 1, 2008 - November 1, 2008
Photographs of the Nambikwara People illustrating an article on the documentary shown below.
Assistant Director at Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2008
A feature documentary retracing the influential 1938 expedition of the famous French anthropologist.
Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University – Music Department
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2012
Teaching in the Music Department.
Managing Editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)
December 31, 2002 - December 31, 2010
A music research resource widely used in higher education.
Instructor / Adjunct Faculty at Stony Brook University, Rutgers University, the City College of New York and Fordham University
December 31, 1999 - December 31, 2011
Various graduate and undergraduate music history classes.

Education

MA & PhD in Musicology at Stony Brook University
January 1, 1992 - January 1, 2000
BA in Music and Literature at Bennington College
January 1, 1984 - January 1, 1988
Photography at Academy of Fine Arts, School of Photography, Istanbul, Turkey
January 1, 1982 - January 1, 1984

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