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My Details
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Great Britain , London
Current Work Details
- What I do
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cinematographer, director
- Website
- Where I work
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I am an individual working from home
- Technical Skills
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Professional experience with all formats including 35mm, 16mm, super 8mm, Alexa, D21, Genesis, RedOne, HD, DSLR, HDV, P2 card based formats and SD. Professional location and studio experience plus greenscreen, pyro, optical special effects, ultra hi-seed photography, extensive grip equipment (including cranes), experience operating with geared head and large scale lighting set ups (including lighting large areas for moonlight
- Resources / Expertise
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Access to Canon 7D with lenses. Great relationships with rental houses, labs, film crew and skilled filmmakers from all departments. Background working in cinemas in previous life (Curzons, BFI Southbank) which reinforced my sense of history and context of cinema. Love to work closely with director and other HODs to achieve the vision, story and mood. Keen player of guitar and lover of music. Featured as up and coming cinematographer in Kodak Vision magazine and Regional FIlm and TV news. Completed MA in Cinematography at the National Film and Television School under tutorage including Brian Tufano BSC (Trainspotting; A Life Less Ordinary; Billy Elliot; Quadrophenia) Roger Deakins ASC BSC (No Country For Old Men, Fargo, Shawshank Redemption) and Sean Bobbitt BSC (Hunger)
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Training
- 2001-2004
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London College of Communication,
Film and Video, BA - 2007-2008
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National Film and Television School,
Cinematography, MA
My Links
Shooters Q&A
- Films I wish I had made
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Blade Runner, Persona, Blue Velvet, Repulsion, Black Narcissus, No Country For Old Men, Come and See, There Will Be Blood
- I cried watching
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I choked when I first watched Boyz in the Hood, aged 13.
- I left the cinema during
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Inland Empire, but I came back again! I didn't know what was going on but something special was still happening. Frequent toilet breaks helped.
- Directors I love
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Godard,Lynch, Bergman, Malick,Von Trier, Kubrick, Wong Kar Wai, Polanski, Antonioni, PTA, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Rohmer, Roeg, John Carpenter, Coens
- Actors I admire
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Morgan Freeman, James Dean, Monica Vitti, Barbara Stanwyck, Marcello Mastroianni, Jimmy Stewart, Anna Karina, Liv Ullmann, Kyle MacLachlan (as Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks!), Daniel Day Lewis, Bill Murray
- Writers I respect
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of books... Orwell, Ballard, Iain Banks, Brett Easton Ellis, David Mitchell, Hesse, Carson McCullers, Cormac McCarthy
- My desert island discs
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Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, My Bloody Valentine - Loveless, John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted, Animal Collective - Feels, noisy and dreamy and psychedelic stuff
- Books I have given my friends
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Northern Lights, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Siddhartha,1984, On The Road, Brave New World, La Bete Humane, Gertrude, Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time, Bazin's What is Cinema, Jack Cardiff's Magic Hour, Storraro on Storraro, Blaine Brown cinematography theory and practice, American Cinematogrpaher mags, Wasp Factory, Devil's Playground Nan Goldin, Robert Frank The American's and moreeeeeeee
- My death row meal
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Dim Sum
- The best thing I own
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My mac book pro. Bloody sad.
- More about me
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My email address is staffordclark@gmail.com not the one possibly registered.
Shooting People stuff
- Joined
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12/5/2005
- Recent Bulletin Posts
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26/8/2008 experienced focus puller, sommerset 28th-3rd sept, S16mm
10/4/2008 Grip and Spark, London s16 short (14th-19th) (London)
23/1/2008 Focus Puller + Clapper/Loader for short (London)
6/10/2007 Clapper/Loader + Gaffer for NFTS short 15th-18th Oct London
25/7/2006 Need focus puller/AC for b&w super 16 London short (expenses)
24/7/2006 Make-up Artist for Special Effects (expenses, london)
19/7/2006 Art director / set dresser wanted (Expenses, london)
18/7/2006 Can you help with a location?
25/1/2006 Q - music rights for showreels
15/9/2005 Looking for a GAFFER for London based short
- Subscribed to
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UK FILMMAKERS
UK DOCUMENTARY
UK MUSIC VIDEO AND FILM MUSIC
