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From interview by Sound & Picture [2013] |
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CURTIS CLARK ASC |
Born: 1947, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Education: Art Institute of Chicago, Goodman School of Drama [Drama]; London [International] Film School [graduated in 1969].
Career: Became freelance doph in Great Britain shooting mostly tv-doc's and short fiction subjects. Returned to the USA in 1984.
Ph 300+ commercials - on film & HD - since 1987 dir by Kenneth Hope, Rob Lopes, Béla Stamenkovits, Danny Klineman, David Fincher, Roger Christian, Victor Garcia [for Mercedes], Dante Ariola [for Nintendo (2003)], Eric Steinman [for LG Electronics (2005)], a.o.
Became member of the ASC in 1991.
In March 1999, he founded NeTune Communications in Los Angeles, which pioneered broadband network distribution of digital film dailies and real time video collaboration for editing and visual effects via a private satellite and terrestrial wireless system. In 2003, he became chairman of the ASC Technology Committee that will recommend standards and practices for emerging technologies that affect filmmaking.
During April-June 2005, he [+ Karl Walter Lindenlaub, John Fauer, Eric Adkins & Sam Nicholson] shot USA tests with the new Arriflex D-20, a film style HD digital camera [see photos below]. [The production of the D-20 was discontinued in 2008 and the D-21 was introduced.]
Awards: ASC Presidents Award [2012].
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FILMS |
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1966 |
Wild Roses [David Borodale] 16mm/b&w |
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1969 |
Gypsy Pentecost [The Feast of St. Sara] [Laurence Boulting] c; doc/32m |
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1969 |
A Test of Violence - The Paintings of Juan Genoves [Stuart Cooper & Daniel Rees] c; doc/17m; cph: Rex Neville |
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1975 |
Dawnbreakers [Laurence Boulting] c; short/32m; + prod |
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1977 |
Cruisin' [Curtis Clark & Tim van Rellim] c; doc/28m |
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1978 |
Shut Down [Curtis Clark] c; doc/41m; cph: Simon Kossoff & Bill Marshall; addph: Tim Ross, Bob Taylor, a.o. |
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1978 |
British Hustle [Curtis Clark] ?; mus doc/45m; cph: Roger Deakins & David Griffiths |
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1981 |
The Telephone [Chris Petit] c; short/4m; originally a test film for KODAK |
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1981 |
The Exile [Peter Greenaway] c; short/4m; originally a test film for KODAK |
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1981 |
The Draughtsman's Contract [Peter Greenaway] s16-35bu/c |
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1981 |
Take It or Leave It [Dave Robinson] s16-35bu/b&w-c; dram + doc + mus perf (with pop group 'Madness')/84m; co-addph; ph: Nic Knowland |
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1982 |
Giro City/And Nothing But the Truth [Karl Francis] c; 2uc: Graham Berry |
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1984 |
Leila wal dhiab/Leila and the Wolves [Heiny Srour] c; cph: Charlet Recors |
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1984 |
Alamo Bay [Louis Malle] c; 2uc: Constantine Makris |
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1985 |
The Beniker Gang/Dear Lola, or How to Start Your Own Family [Ken Kwapis] c |
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1985 |
[Sesame Street Presents:] Follow That Bird [Ken Kwapis] c; 2u sfx ph: Thomas Burstyn |
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1985 |
Extremities [Robert M. Young] c |
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1986 |
Made in USA [Ken Friedman] c |
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1987 |
Dominick and Eugene/Nicky and Gino [Robert M. Young] c |
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1987 |
Thy Kingdom Come… Thy Will Be Done [Antony Thomas] c; doc/107m |
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1989 |
Triumph of the Spirit [Robert M. Young] c |
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1989 |
Internal Affairs [Mike Figgis] c; addph; ph: John Alonzo |
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1990 |
Talent for the Game [Robert M. Young] c |
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2005 |
An Inconvenient Truth [Davis Guggenheim] HD (JVC GY-HD100U + Sony F950)+8mm+16mm+35mm-to-35mm/b&w-c; co-addph; ph: Bob Richman & D. Guggenheim |
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2011 |
The Arrival [Curtis Clark] HD (Sony F65)/c; short/?m; preview of Sony's F65 CineAlta digital motion picture camera |
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2012 |
Eldorado [Curtis Clark] HD (Sony F65)/c; short/8m; demo of Sony's F65 CineAlta digital motion picture camera; "Clark shot 'Eldorado' exclusively with the F65 camera capturing true 4K imagery in 16-bit linear RAW format using Sony's new SR-Master filed recorder. (That included a time-lapse sequence showing a dawn to sunrise transition.) ''Eldorado' shows the latest evolution of the F65 camera, which includes the full 16-bit color space,' explains Clark. 'It is the first digital motion picture camera that is able to reproduce all of the characteristics I expect to get with film, at the highest quality and including spatial resolution comparable to 65mm film.'" [From CreativeCOW.net.] |
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TELEVISION |
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1983 |
Nelly's Version/Rewards of Virtue [Maurice Hatton] tvm |
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1983 |
Picture of Health [ep 'Who Cares?' dir by Karin Magid] doc/50m; cph: Adam Rodgers |
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1983 |
Four American Composers [Peter Greenaway] 4-part ('John Cage - A Music Circus' [55m], 'Meredith Monk' [52m], 'Philip Glass' [51m] & 'Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives [Privacy Rules]' [54m]) mus perf series/16mm; cph ('Philip Glass'): Nic Knowland; for Channel 4 |
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1985 |
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn [Joan Darling] 2-part tvm/2x 30m; an ABC-tv 'Weekend Special' |
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1985 |
[Agatha Christie's] Thirteen at Dinner [Lou Antonio] tvm |
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1985 |
[Agatha Christie's] Dead Man's Folly [Clive Donner] tvm |
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1987 |
Treacle [Peter Chelsom] tvm/11m |
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1987 |
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth [Philip Haas] doc/46m/16mm; ep series 'The South Bank Show' |
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1992 |
Never Say Die: The Search for Eternal Youth [Antony Thomas] doc/60m; cph: Luke Cardiff; ep HBO-tv series 'America Undercover' |
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1994 |
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies [Chuck Workman] doc/b&w-c/90m |
FILMS AS DIRECTOR |
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1977 |
Cruisin' [co-d; + co-prod/ph] see Films |
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1978 |
Shut Down [+ co-prod/scrpl/cph] see Films |
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1978 |
British Hustle [+ cph] see Films |
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1979 |
Blue Suede Shoes [rock doc/97m] ph: Roger Deakins |
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2011 |
The Arrival [+ ph] see Films |
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2012 |
Eldorado [+ ph] see Films |