[16] Around this time Kolodny began working as a documentary cinematographer, initially on Lenny Cooke by the Safdie brothers and then with Robert Greene on Kate Plays Christine and Bisbee '17.

[17] He worked his way up to being the director of photography for Greene's Netflix film Procession,[18] Alex Ross Perry's Pavements[19] and one of the cinematographers of the Peabody Award-winning and Academy Award nominated All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras.

[31] It tracks the post-retirement career of former world champion boxer Willie Pep and his troubled road to a comeback, as a direct cinema film crew documents his daily life.

[32] Starring James Madio, Ron Livingston, Stephen Lang, Keir Gilchrist and Ruby Wolf, the film received critical acclaim for its realism and intricate craft.

[33] Guy Lodge from Variety said: "Kolodny puts nary a foot wrong in his precise replication of a midcentury vérité aesthetic and gaze, from the particular grain and thrust of the camerawork to the authentically abrasive tone and tenor of the performances.