IEC
#1: 2007
ROGER EATON
Born: 31 August 1956, Cambridge, UK.
Education: Uppingham School; Trained as a photographic apprentice/assistant under Lord Snowdon [Anthony Armstrong-Jones] and Eve Arnold.
Career: Started his career as an international fashion and fine art photographer. Moved to New York in the early 1980s. Worked with Andy Warhol for 'Interview Magazine' while being creatively involved with artists such as Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Entered the 'world of fashion' shooting covers for 'Vogue' and 'The Face' while working on advertising campaigns for De Beers, Bounty, Renault, Smirnoff Black Label, Clairol, Ray Ban, a.o. Photographed some of the world's most famous faces including Diana Princess of Wales, Andy Warhol, Naomi Campbell, Truman Capote, Bridget Fonda, Claudia Schiffer, Nancy Reagan, Andie MacDowell, Linda Evangelista, the Pope and Kate Moss while his work as an art photographer has been exhibited in solo shows in Milan, New York and London. Returned to London where he decided to trade stills photography for the moving image. 'I can say specifically when it happened. I was shooting a Bounty bar stills advertising campaign in Antigua. Because the production values were so high, we had yachts and spent lots of money. I was working with a commercial film crew, and the cinematographer on that was a guy called Adrian Biddle. Back in those days we couldn't paint in a blue sky, we had to wait for it and we had quite a lot of down days, we'd be sitting in these gorgeous places waiting for the sky to clear because it was overcast. I spent a lot of time talking to Adrian about photography and cinematography and the similarities and differences. I realized that moment that I should have really always been doing moving pictures, because I was also very interested in narrative within still pictures, to distil that narrative into a single image. Then I realized that through moving image I had a hell of a lot more freedom. The other thing was to deal with the temporal difference, because the other thing that got me with stills photography is you end up with one photograph in a magazine, on a wall, whatever it is, and that's it really. Whereas with the moving image I really felt there was much more scope and space to investigate human psychology, people, stories, all that sort of stuff. When I came back I was working with a director called Marcus Thompson, shooting a music video out of a helicopter for a pop promo. We became very close talking about stories, narrative, images, so he introduced me really and gave me the tools I needed to be able to investigate the moving image. So that was a turning point. Was it a natural progression? I think it probably was because I learnt my craft and skills doing lighting, dealing with people, dealing with the politics on the set, all that sort of stuff, so in a way it put me in a very good stead. That was a very strange move not to come up through the grades, in a way, to split straight from stills photography into being a cinematographer.' [From interview with Cihan Narin, 26 December 2006.]
Ph commercials dir by Mike Tombeur [for Texas Instruments], Nigel Coen [for Opel], Miguel Sapochnik [for Sugar Puffs], James Lebon [for Head & Shoulders], Hugron Ragnorson, a.o. Ph music videos dir by Nathan Wiley, Emily Hill, James Lebon, a.o.
Directed commercials, e.g. 'Frog' [1998; co-d: Alan Fleming; for The Green Party; + ph], 'Performance' [for L'Oréal], a.o.
Co-owns the prod company The Vatican.
Appeared in the doc 'Shooters and Chasers' [2002; 143m].
Awards: As dir: Clio Silver Award [1998] for 'Frog'.
Website: Roger Eaton
| FILMS | |
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1985 |
Gaudi - An Act of Kindness [Marcus Thompson] 16mm/c; doc/27m |
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1988 |
Malevolence [Marcus Thompson] 16mm/b&w |
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1997 |
11.1.97 [Tom Cotton] v+dv+35mm stills-to-V/b&w-c; short/18m; + co-prod |
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1997 |
Headcase [Lynden Alexander] dv/c; short/10m |
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1997 |
An Exercise in Conversation [Lynden Alexander] dv/c; short/10m |
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1997 |
Lulu [Lindsay Thurlow] s16/c; short/10m |
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1997 |
Dogtribe [Youseff Ali Kahn] dv/c |
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1997 |
The Rationalist [Warwick Collins] c; director's test for prod Miramax/10m |
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1998 |
Green Milk [Tom Cotton] s8+16mm-to-V/c; short/8m |
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1998 |
Bird [Andy Ross] s16/c; short/10m |
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1998 |
Talisman [Xian Vassie (= Christian Vassie)] s16/c |
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1998 |
Struggle [Gary Coleman] dv/c; short/10m |
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1998 |
Rocka & the Angel [Rikki Tarascas] dv+s8-to-V/c; short/23m |
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1998 |
Situation Dog [Lawrence Jackson] dv/c; short/10m |
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1998 |
Out of Depth [Simon Marshall] c; 2uc; ph: Adam Suschitzky |
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1998 |
The Web [Lynden Alexander] dv/c; short/10m |
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1999 |
The Booth [Anthony Alleyne] c; short/12m |
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1999 |
Cold Fish [David Fairman] s16-35bu/c |
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1999 |
Lava [Joe Tucker] s16-35bu/c; + 2uc; cph: Ian Liggett & (uncred) Sam McCurdy; addph: Shane Daly |
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1999 |
Closed Circuit [Chloe Thomas] 35mm+dv-to-V/b&w-c; short/12m; cph: Daniel Rohrer; 2uc: Tanja Koop & Nicola Marsh |
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2000 |
Courier [Rikki Tarascas] s16/c; short/10m & 15m |
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2000 |
Un Certain Disregard [Rikki Tarascas] dv/c; short/5m |
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2000 |
The Spell [Michael Rebehn] c; short/10m |
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2000 |
Funny Isn't It [Albert Kodagolian] DigiBeta/c; short/10m |
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2000 |
Meninos do Marumbi/Children of the Favellas [Milo Downes] dv/c; doc/60m |
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2000 |
Butterfly Effect [Chris Clarke] dv/c; short/50m |
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2001 |
The Still [Nima Shayeghi] s16/?; short/10m |
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2001 |
Mr Thompson's Carnation [Diene Petterle] DigiBeta/c; short/10m |
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2001 |
The A to Z of Partial Deaths [Chris Clarke] dv/c; short/30m |
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2001 |
Beezlebub [Tom Trewitt] DigiBeta/c; short/5m |
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2001 |
Willows/Inspiration [Andreas Wisniewski] c |
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2002 |
Therapy for Tom [Roy Khalil] DigiBeta/c; short/10m |
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2002 |
Flinch [Jay Weddon] p/c; short/10m |
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2003 |
Code 46 [Michael Winterbottom] s35/c; co-3uc (on dv); ph: Alwin Kuchler & Marcel Zyskind |
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2003 |
The Toybox [Paolo Sedazzari] DigiBeta-to-35mm/c; spec pfx: Sasha Lewis |
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2003 |
Disturbance [Jonathan English] s35/c; trailer/5m |
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2003 |
Magda [Andy Isaac] dv/c; short/10m |
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2003 |
Cab Hustle [Osita Aneke (Futura 3000)] dv (Panasonic AG-DVX100)-to-35mm/c |
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2004 |
Kebbi [Wale Ojo] dv/c; doc/60m |
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2004 |
Thérèse de Lisieux [Lydia Lanzi] dv/c; doc/30m |
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2004 |
Lift [Dean Craig] dv/c; short/11m |
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2004 |
The Truck of Dreams [Arun Kumar] s16-35bu/c ; cph: Owen Scurfield |
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2005 |
Sunshine Sally [Andy Isaac] c; short/5m |
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2005 |
Gas [Sylvie Bolioli] c; short/12m; cph: Steve Brooke-Smith; 2uc: Dominik Rippl; filmed February & November |
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2005 |
Maasai 10th Lost Tribe of Israel/Maasai Circumcision Ritual [Dante Montagnani] HD (Sony HVR-Z1U)/c; doc/60m; + co-prod; released in 2014 |
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2006 |
The Killing of John Lennon [Andrew Piddington] s16+8mm+HD (Sony F900)-to-35mm scope/c; filmed December 2003- March 2006 |
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2006 |
The Real Gavin Reed [Adam Forgash] test shoot (Panasonic AJ-HDC27F) in May |
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2006 |
Far Out Far In [Arun Kumar] pre-production; status unknown |
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2008 |
The Big I Am [Nic Auerbach] 35mm+RED-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; ph add scenes; ph: Shane Daly |
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2008 |
Last Day of Summer/Held Captive/Awaken the Night [Vlad Yudin] HD (Genesis) scope/c; uncred cph; ph: Patryk Rebisz |
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2008 |
The Universe of Myron Evans [Francesco Fucilla] c; doc/52m; ep #1 of 5-part science series; other ph: Lillo Sorce |
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2010 |
Everybody Knows My Name [Philip Bulcock] scope/c; mus short/10m |
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2010 |
Queens of the Cage [Victoria Wood] HD/c; doc/26m; filmed June-December |
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2011 |
Boys with Broken Ears/Too Young the Hero [Nima Shayeghi] c; doc/54m (tv-version) & 78m; cph: Iraj Haghighipour |
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2012 |
A Boy Dancing Freestyle [Hattie Worboys] c; exp dance film/4m; + co-prod |
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2012 |
Red Throne [Arun Kumar] announced |
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2012 |
The Burning Bush [Semeli Economou] HD (Canon EOS 5D Mark III)/c; short/14m |
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2014 |
Sins of a Father [Andrew Piddington] c; cph: Denis Lenoir (ph in 1990); partly reshot and re-edited version of A. Piddington's 'Shuttlecock/Entre chien et loup' (1990) |
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2014 |
8 Beats [Arun Kumar] pre-production |
| TELEVISION | |
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|
1985 |
Neat & Tidy - Adventures Beyond Belief [Marcus Thompson] unaired pilot; followed by 5-part series, 1988; series ph: John Metcalfe; for Channel 4 |
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1991 |
The Changeling [Marcus Thompson] pilot; in 1994, M. Thompson filmed the feature 'Middleton's Changeling' (96m) ph by Richard Butland & (add scenes) Ricardo Coll |
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1997 |
TV Travelshop [ep (30m) 'Gran Canaria' dir by Sam Hodgkin] doc series/dv |
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1998 |
TV Travelshop [ep (30m) 'Andorra' & 'Saux d'Oulx-Turin' dir by Mark Craig] doc series/dv |
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1998 |
Wild Things [Jonathan Bairstow] doc/30m/dv |
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1998 |
London Fashion Shows [Kent Wong] doc/15m/dv; for Chinese TV Network |
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1998 |
The Secrets of Sleep [ep 'The Dreaming Brain' dir by Joseph Bullman] 3-part (x 60m) doc series/dv; also 9-part series (163m); for Channel 4 |
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1998 |
Trust Me I'm a Doctor/Rogue Doctors [Howard Bradburn] doc/60m/dv; for Channel 4 series 'Dispatches' |
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1998 |
Driven [ep 'Scenic vs. A-Class', 'Jaguar S-Type 200', 'Aston Martin', 'Honda Accord Type-R', 'Lotus' & 'Bentley' dir by Justin Linnane] doc series/each ep 30m/DigiBeta; for Channel 4; filmed September-November |
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2001 |
Mario Testino: Diana's Favourite Photographer [Louise Hooper] doc/48m/DigiBeta; cph: David Meadows; ep BBC-tv series 'Omnibus' |
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2001 |
Out of Eden - This is Your Life [Andrew Piddington] tvm/104m/DigiBeta; filmed June-November |
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2001 |
The Real Eve/Where We Came From [Andrew Piddington] dram doc/103m/DigiBeta; filmed June-November in Kenya; for Discovery Channel |
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2002 |
Dinosaur Hunters [Andrew Piddington] 2-part (x 52m) tvm/DigiBeta; for Channel 4 |
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2006 |
Sting - 'Songs from the Labyrinth' [Jim Gable & Ann Kim] HD/c; mus special/60m; co-c.op; ph: David Rudd; for PBS-tv series 'Great Performances' |
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2008 |
Vladimir Lenin [Frederick Rendina] doc/b&w-c/52m/HD (Sony HVR-Z1); for The Biography Channel |
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2009 |
Samurai [Andrew Piddington] doc/88m/HD (Sony PMW-EX3); cph: A. Piddington; for History Channel (2010) |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
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2013 |
Transparency: Inside the Fifth Estate [Keith Clark; doc/78m] co-c.op; ph: Christopher Rowe & Nathan Wiley |
