JAN KIESSER

2006

JAN KIESSER CSC/ASC

Born: ?, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as Jan E. Kiesser. His family moved to Los Angeles [Studio City] when he was five.

Education: University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA].

Career: Served in the US Army in Germany. Started making Super 8mm films. Became anim ph in 1970. Became c.asst & c.op. Moved back to Canada in 1994.

Ph commercials and PSA's dir by Nigel Dick, Ulf Buddensieck, Jon Stanley, Gary Weis, Louis Lyne, Danny Boyle, a.o.

Member of the ASC since 1992.

Awards: 'Genie' Award nom [1998] for 'Such a Long Journey'; 'Genie' Award nom [2002] for 'Rare Birds'; 'Emmy' Award nom [2003] for 'Door to Door'; ASC TV Award nom [2006] for 'Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical'; 'Genie' Award nom [2006] & CSC Award nom [2007] for 'Beowulf & Grendel'; 'Leo' Award [2007] for 'Fido'.

Website: Jan Kiesser

FILMS
1970	Premonition/The Impure/Head [Alan Rudolph] c; sfx ph (+ co-c.asst); ph: John Bailey
1976	Jackson County Jail/The Innocent Victim [Michael Miller] c; 2uc (+ 2ud); ph: Bruce Logan
1978	The Rose [Mark Rydell] c; co-add concert ph; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond
1981	Endangered Species [Alan Rudolph] c; addph; ph: Paul Lohmann
1981	Something Wicked This Way Comes [Jack Clayton] c; addph; ph: Stephen Burum
1981	Hysterical [Chris Bearde] c; co-2u camera; ph: Donald M. Morgan
1982	Point of Departure [Jennifer Warren] c; short/30m; prod American Film Institute (Directing Workshop for Women)
1982	Table for Five [Robert Lieberman] c; addph; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond
1983	Meatballs Part II/Space Kid [Ken Wiederhorn] c; 2uc; ph: Donald M. Morgan
1983	Return Engagement [Alan Rudolph] c; doc/89m
1984	Purple Hearts [Sidney J. Furie] p/c
1984	Choose Me [Alan Rudolph] c
1984	The River Rat [Tom Rickman] c; 2uc: David Myers & Steve Yaconelli
1984	Weird Science [John Hughes] c; co-addph; ph: Matthew Leonetti
1984	Fright Night [Tom Holland] p/c; filmed 1984-85
1985	The Check Is in the Mail.../The Cheque Is in the Post [Joan Darling] c
1986	Made in Heaven [Alan Rudolph] b&w-c
1986	Some Kind of Wonderful [Howard Deutch] c
1987	The Moderns [Alan Rudolph] c; addph; ph: Toyomichi Kurita
1987	Clean and Sober [Glenn Gordon Caron] c
1988	Sing [Richard Baskin] c; co-addph; ph: Peter Sova
1989	Dad [Gary David Goldberg] c
1990	V.I. Warshawski [Jeff Kanew] c; 2uc (+ ph boat chase seq): John M. Stephens
1992	Aspen Extreme [Patrick Hasburgh] c; co-2uc; ph: Steven Fierberg & Robert Primes
1992	Trouble Bound [Jeff Reiner] c; addph; ph: Janusz Kaminski
1992	King of the Hill [Steven Soderbergh] c; addph; ph: Elliot Davis
*1992*	The Air Up There [Paul Michael Glaser] replaced by ph Dick Pope
1993	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle/Mrs. Parker and the Round Table [Alan Rudolph] s35/b&w-c
1994	Georgia [Ulu Grosbard] c
1994	Man with a Gun/Gun for Hire/Hired for Killing [David Wyles] c; 2uc: Wade Ferley; aph: Peter McLennan
1994	Jumanji [Joe Johnston] c; 2uc; ph: Thomas Ackerman
1995	Larger Than Life [Howard Franklin] c; 2uc; ph: Elliot Davis
1996	Bad Moon [Eric Red] Clairmont-Scope/c
1996	Kundun [Martin Scorsese] s35/c; co-2uc; ph: Roger Deakins
1997	Finding Graceland [David Winkler] c; addph; ph: Elliot Davis
1997	The X Files [Rob Bowman] s35/c; co-glacier unit ph; ph: Ward Russell
1997	The People [Aaron Lipstadt] c
1997	Such a Long Journey [Sturla Gunnarsson] c; originally a project with dir Deepa Mehta and ph Guy Dufaux (1994-95)
1998	Bruno/The Dress Code [Shirley MacLaine] c
1999	Trixie [Alan Rudolph] c
1999	Dr. T & the Women [Robert Altman] p/c; desert unit ph: Ed Lachman
2000	Rare Birds [Sturla Gunnarsson] c
2001	Now & Forever [Bob Clark] c
2001	I Spy [Betty Thomas] c; 2uc (Budapest); ph: Oliver Wood; filmed 2001-02
2004	Beowulf & Grendel [Sturla Gunnarsson] s35/c

[Right] - "Fido"

2005	Fido [Andrew Currie] s35/c; 2uc: Randall Platt
2005	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [Justin Lin] s35/c; 2uc; ph: Stephen Windon
2006	War/Rogue Assassin [Philip Atwell] s35/c; co-addph; ph: Pierre Morel
2007	Smile [Julia Kwan] s16-35bu/c; short/17m
2007	The Box Collector/Love at First Kill [John Daly] c
2008	Conversation with the Supplicant [Mark A. Lewis] b&w; short/10m
2008	The Thaw [Mark A. Lewis] HD (Thomson Viper) scope/c
2008	Pop Switch [Jason R. Goode] HD (Panasonic AJ-HPX3000) scope/c; short/18m
2009	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief [Chris Columbus] s35/c; 2uc; ph: Stephen Goldblatt
2009	Charlie St. Cloud [Burr Steers] Hawk Scope/c; co-2uc; ph: Enrique Chediak
2012	A Christmas Story 2 [Brian Levant] HD/b&w-c/V
2012	No Clue [Carl Bessai] c; aph: John Trapman
2015	Numb [Jason R. Goode] c
2016	Max 2: White House Hero [Brian Levant] HD/c

TELEVISION
1971	The Point [Fred Wolf] anim tvm; co-anim ph
1984	Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story [Karen Arthur] tvm
1984	The Ratings Game/The Mogul [Danny DeVito] tvm; addph; ph: Tim Suhrstedt
1995	A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story [Bill Corcoran] tvm
1995	The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space [Max Tash] pilot; for Starz!-tv
1995	A Holiday to Remember [Jud Taylor] tvm; + 2uc
1996	The Perfect Mother/The Mother-In-Law [Peter Levin] tvm
1996	National Lampoon's "Dad's Week Off" [Neal Israel] tvm
1996	Murder in My Mind [Robert Iscove] tvm
1997	The Baby Dance [Jane Anderson] tvm; 2uc: Tobias Schliessler
1997	Nightmare Street [Colin Bucksey] tvm
1998	Killer App [Robert Altman] pilot; for FOX-tv
2000	Holiday Heart [Robert Townsend] tvm
2001	Door to Door [Steven Schachter] tvm
2002	An Unexpected Love/This Much I Know [Lee Rose] tvm
2003	Jack [Lee Rose] tvm
2003	It Must Be Love/Surviving Love [Steven Schachter] tvm
2004	Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical [Andy Fickman] tvm/b&w-c/HD (Sony F900)
2006	Luna: Spirit of the Whale [Don McBrearty] tvm; uwph: Braden Haggerty
2006	Nobody [Jeff Woolnough] pilot; for ABC Family
2008	Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins [Brian Levant] tvm; 2uc: Karl Herrmann
2014	Pants on Fire [Jonathan Rosenbaum] tvm/HD
2014	Falling Skies [ep #45 'Hatchlings' dir by Robert Lieberman, #47 'Non-Essential Personnel' dir by Olatunde Osunsanmi, #49 'Everybody Has Their Reasons' dir by Matt Earl Beesley & #51 'Reunion' dir by Brad Turner] 52-part series, 2011-15; 5th season/HD (ARRI ALEXA), 2015 (10 ep); other ph: Barry Donlevy
2015	Mark & Russell's Wild Ride [Jon Rosenbaum] tvm
2016	The Flash [ep #50 'The New Rogues' dir by Stefan Pleszczynski] series/HD, 2014-present; 3rd season, 2016-17 (23 ep)
2016	A Royal Christmas [Allan Harmon] tvm

FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR
1970	Premonition/The Impure/Head [Alan Rudolph] co-c.asst (+ sfx ph); ph: John Bailey
1971	Idaho Transfer/Deranged [Peter Fonda] co-c.asst; ph: Bruce Logan
1973	This Is a Hijack [Barry Pollack] c.asst; ph: Bruce Logan
1974	Jaws [Steven Spielberg] c.asst uwph; uwph: Rexford Metz; ph: Bill Butler
1974	Rooster Cogburn [Stuart Millar] co-1st c.asst; ph: Harry Stradling Jr.
1976	Welcome to L.A. [Alan Rudolph] 1st c.asst; ph: David Myers
1976	My Mom's Having a Baby [Larry Elikann; tvm] c.op; ph: Donald M. Morgan; an 'ABC Afterschool Special'
1976	One On One [Lamont Johnson] co-c.op; ph: Donald M. Morgan
1977	The Gauntlet [Clint Eastwood] c.op; ph: Rexford Metz
1977	Remember My Name [Alan Rudolph] c.op; ph: Tak Fujimoto
1977	Hair [Milos Forman] c.op California unit; ph: Miroslav Ondrícek
1978	A Perfect Couple [Robert Altman] c.op; ph: Edmond L. Koons
1978	The Darker Side of Terror/Ectogen 2: Clone [Gus Trikonis; tvm] c.op; ph: Donald M. Morgan
1978	Elvis [John Carpenter; tvm] c.op; ph: Donald M. Morgan; released theatrically outside USA
1979	Heaven's Gate/Johnson County Wars [Michael Cimino] c.op; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond
1979	Make Me an Offer [Jerry Paris; tvm] c.op; ph: Donald M. Morgan
1979	Roadie [Alan Rudolph] c.op; ph: David Myers
1980	Blow Out [Brian De Palma] c.op; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond
1981	Jinxed! [Don Siegel & (uncred) Sam Peckinpah] co-c.op; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond