IEC
#1: 2009
#2: [Left] - "Glitter" [2000]
Born: ?, Adelaide, Australia.
Education: South Australian School of Art, Adelaide [since 1991 part of the University of South Australia]; London International Film School, UK.
Career: Worked on doc's prod by the South Australian Film Corporation.
Ph commercials and music videos.
Awards: ACS 'Golden Tripod' Award [1981] for 'Breaking Point'; ACS 'Milli' Award 'Australian Cinematographer of the Year' [1986] for 'Playing Beatie Bow'; AFI [Aus] Award [1988] & Fantasporto FF Award [1989] for 'The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1992] for 'The Last Days of Chez Nous'; Camerimage 'Bronze Frog' [1996] & AFI [Aus] Award [1996] for 'Shine'; AFI [Aus] Award [1998] for 'Oscar and Lucinda'; ACS 'Golden Tripod' Award [2007] & AFI [Aus] Award nom [2007] for 'Romulus, My Father'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [2008] for 'The Tender Hook'.
Website: Geoffrey Simpson
FILMS | |
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1976 |
Growing: Art [Justin Milne] 16mm/c; doc/17m |
1976 |
Trucking Along [Justin Milne] 16mm/c; doc/24m |
1976 |
Treating People as People [Justin Milne] 16mm/c; doc/26m |
1977 |
Pigs/Pete's Pigs [Ron Saunders] 16mm/c; doc/15m |
1977 |
This Little Pig Went to Market [Ron Saunders] 16mm/c; doc/14m |
1977 |
It's Easy When You Know How [Brian Bergin] c; doc/16m; cph: Cliff Evans |
1977 |
Bridging the Gap [Justin Milne] 16mm/c; doc/13m |
1979 |
Long Time Journey [Justin Milne] c; doc/11m |
1979 |
Forest Dream [Justin Milne] c; doc/8m |
1980 |
Injury in Sport [?] 16mm/c; doc/13m |
1980 |
Brain Death [Justin Milne] 16mm/c; doc/18m |
1980 |
Breaking Point [Brian McDuffie] 16mm/c; dram doc/51m |
1980 |
The Survivor [David Hemmings] p/c; co-addph; ph: John Seale |
1981 |
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior [George Miller] p/b&w-c; 2uc; ph: Dean Semler |
1981 |
Drugs: It's Up to You Really [Geoffrey Nottage] c; doc/13m |
1981 |
Centrespread [Tony Paterson] c |
1982 |
Dangermen [Michael Caulfield] 16mm/c; doc/15m |
1982 |
Electricity [?] ?; corporate doc/?m |
1982 |
The Hall of Mirrors: A Festival/Reflections in a Mirror [Scott Hicks] 16mm/c; doc/58m |
1983 |
The Migrant Experience [ep #1 (50m) 'Setting Out', #5 (48m) 'Something Old, Something New' & #6 (48m) 'Are You Fair Dinkum?' dir by Ben Lewin] c; 6-part doc series |
[Right] - "Nicaragua: No pasaran"
1983 |
Nicaragua: No pasaran [David Bradbury] 16mm/c; doc/71m; addph: Yves Breux |
1985 |
[Frank Heimans and Nevill Drury's] The Occult Experience/Magic, Myth and Mystery [Frank Heimans] c; doc/95m |
1985 |
Chile: hasta cuando? [David Bradbury] 16mm/c; doc/73m |
1986 |
Paradise Camp [Frank Heimans] b&w-c; doc/56m; cph: Boris Janjic & Butch Sawko |
1986 |
Playing Beatie Bow [Donald Crombie] c |
1986 |
Initiation/Zoomstone [Michael Pearce] c |
1986 |
Call Me Mr. Brown [Scott Hicks] 16mm/c |
1987 |
Jilted [Bill Bennett] c |
1987 |
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey [Vincent Ward] c; 2uc: Allen Guilford |
1988 |
Celia/Celia: Child of Terror [Ann Turner] c; 2uc: James Grant |
1989 |
Till There Was You [John Seale] s35-to-35mm/c; Los Angeles ph: Robert Primes; 2uc: David Burr; aph: Martin Turner; uwph: Wolfgang Knochell |
1990 |
Green Card [Peter Weir] c |
1991 |
The Last Days of Chez Nous [Gillian Armstrong] c |
1991 |
Fried Green Tomatoes [at the Whistle Stop Café] [Jon Avnet] s35-to-35mm/c |
1992 |
Mr. Wonderful [Anthony Minghella] c |
1992 |
Bad Boy Bubby [Rolf de Heer] tvi/c; cph: Ian Jones, Roger Lanser, David Burr & 27 others |
1993 |
A Good Man in Africa [Bruce Beresford] c |
1993 |
The War [Jon Avnet] c |
1994 |
Little Women [Gillian Armstrong] c; 2uc: Peter Levy |
1995 |
Shine [Scott Hicks] c; 2uc: David Foreman |
1995 |
Some Mother's Son [Terry George] c |
1996 |
Oscar and Lucinda [Gillian Armstrong] p/c; addph: Russell Boyd; 2uc: Nigel Kirton; uwph: Rob Hunter |
1997 |
The Parent Trap [Nancy Meyers] replaced by doph Dean Cundey |
1998 |
Life [Ted Demme] c; 2uc: Donald M. McCuaig |
1999 |
Center Stage [Nicholas Hytner] s35/c |
2000 |
Glitter [Vondie Curtis-Hall] c |
2001 |
Paradise Found [Mario Andreacchio] c |
2001 |
Black and White [Craig Lahiff] c |
2002 |
Under the Tuscan Sun [Audrey Wells] c |
2004 |
Last Holiday [Wayne Wang] s35/c; 2uc: Paul Hughen; aph: John Marzano; remake of film (1950, Henry Cass; ph: Ray Elton) |
2006 |
Romulus, My Father [Richard Roxburgh] c |
2007 |
The Tender Hook [Jonathan Ogilvie] c |
2007 |
Ali & the ball [Alex Holmes] c; short/15m; cph: Martin McGrath |
"Dear Diary"
2009 |
Dear Diary [Kane Christopher] HD (Genesis/scope)/c; short/18m |
2009 |
The Dragon Pearl/The Last Dragon [Mario Andreacchio] RED-to-35mm/c |
2010 |
Sleeping Beauty [Julia Leigh] c |
2011 |
The Sessions/The Surrogate [Ben Lewin] RED-to-D-Cinema/c |
2011 |
Fish & Chips [Anna Broinowski] HD/c; short/15m |
With Catriona McKenzie [right] - "Satellite Boy"
2011 |
Satellite Boy [Catriona McKenzie] HD (ARRI ALEXA)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2012 |
Aim High in Creation [Anna Broinowski] HD/c; doc + dram/96m; ph (ARRI ALEXA) dram seq; other ph (August-December): Nicola Daley; add cam: A. Broinowski, Justine Kerrigan, a.o. |
2013 |
My Mistress [Stephen Lance] HD (ARRI ALEXA) scope/c |
2013 |
The Turning [seg 'Abbreviation' dir by Jub Clerc] c; 17 seg + anim preface; 180m & 107m (re-edited version with 8 seg) |
2013 |
Kill Me Three Times [Kriv Stenders] scope/c; 2uc: Andrew McLeod; aph: Michael McDermot & Peter Beeh; surf unit ph: Rick Rifici |
2014 |
Dao shi xia shan/Monk Comes Down the Mountain/A Monk Goes Downhill [Chen Kaige] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT Studio/scope)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema & IMAX 3-D)/c |
2015 |
Whoever Was Using This Bed/Wake Up Call [Andrew Kotatko] scope/c; short/21m |
2015 |
Kill Your Dinner [Bryn Chainey] c; short/12m |
2016 |
Please Stand By [Ben Lewin] HD/c |
2016 |
Cargo [Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke] c; full-length version of short film (2012; ph: Daniel Foeldes) |
TELEVISION | |
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1981 |
Visible Arm [Gus Howard] ?/10m/16mm |
1984 |
Where Death Wears a Smile/The Great Nazi Hoax [Frank Heimans] doc/48m |
1986 |
The Blue Lightning [Lee Philips] tvm |
1986 |
Gallagher's Travels [Michael Caulfield] tvm |
1987 |
The Riddle of the Stinson [Chris Noonan] tvm |
1987 |
The Shiralee/Macaulay's Daughter [George Ogilvie] 2-part miniseries (180m) & feature (108m) |
1988 |
Boundaries of the Heart [Lex Marinos] tvm; cph: David Sanderson |
1988 |
Edens Lost [Neil Armfield] 3-part miniseries |
1989 |
Fields of Fire III [David Elfick] 2-part tvm |
1990 |
Deadly [Esben Storm] tvm |
2006 |
The Starter Wife [Jon Avnet] 5-part (1x 2 hours + 4x 1 hour) miniseries; uwph: Simon Christidis |
MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1974 |
Sunday Too Far Away [Ken Hannam] c.asst; ph: Geoff Burton |
1975 |
Picnic at Hanging Rock [Peter Weir] electrician; ph: Russell Boyd |
1981 |
Freedom [Scott Hicks] co-c.op stunts; ph: Ron Johanson |