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Two Canadians were recently made active
members of the Society. Mark Irwin, who
was born in Toronto and attended film
school at York University, began his career

by shooting 16mm documentaries in
Canada; the assignments took him all over
his homeland and, eventually, halfway
around the world. He worked on sport films,

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industrials, educational films, and television
titled Alien Encounter(the film's name
was later changed, however, because an¬
other release had a similar title - and a
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larger budget).
He joined the Canadian Society
of Cinematographers in 1970 as a film stu¬
dent and won that organization's award

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four times in a row (from 1983-1986) for his
work on the films Youngblood, Videodrome,
The DeadZone and The Fly. The latter three
films were collaborations with director
David Cronenberg, with whom he also
worked

on

the science-fiction film Scan¬

family to Santa Barbara, and has since shot
The Blob, Fright Night II, and Paint It Black.
Other credits include the ABC special Call

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The ASC's second new member,
Jan Kiesser, was born in Winnipeg. His in¬
terest in photography developed while he

serving in the military in Germany and
during subsequent travel to the art capitals
of the world. He attended UCLA and began
making Super 8 films with a friend. He en¬
tered the film industry as an animation cam¬
was

eraman

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in 1970 and then moved to live ac¬
assistant cameraman on low-

as an

budget feature films. As a camera operator,
he worked with ASC members Haskell
Wexler and Gordon Willis, and on three
films with Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC -
Heaven's Gate, Blow Out, and Jinxed. He
has also worked second unit on The

Moderns and Table for Five.
Kiesser also shoots music videos
and television commercials for such
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are currently
these projects (an incomplete

John

Bailey: In the Line of Fire,

Columbia, filming in Washington, D.C., Chi¬
cago,

and Los Angeles.

Ralf Bode: The Nutcracker,
Electra/New Regency/Tatge Lasseur, Pur¬
chase, New York.
Tom Del Ruth: The Last Paisan,

August Entertainment, Los Angeles and
New York.
Jack Green: Bookie of the Year,

Fox, Chicago.

Jeffrey Kimball: True Bomance,
Warner Bros., Los Angeles and Detroit.
Brianne Murphy: Cherished
Robert Richardson: Heaven and

Earth, New Line, Southeast Asia.
Vittorio Storaro: Little Buddha,

Bhutan, Nepal and Seattle.
Gordon Willis: Untitled
Warner Bros., Los Angeles.

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Toyota, Jeep, AT&T, and Burger

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In 1987, Irwin moved with his

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Heaven, Some Kind of Wonderful, Clean &
Sober, Dad, and V.l. Warshawski.

projects. His first 16mm blow-up feature

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King. Other features include Choose Me,
The Biver Bat, Fright Night, Made in

Images Devices International
presented a Symposium of Imagemakers'
Techniques on November 21 and 22 in Mi¬
ami, Florida. Featured guests, speaking on
their specialties, included ASC associate
members Garrett Brown (inventor of the
Steadicam), special effects master Bill
Hansard, dSam computer inventor David
Samuelson, and ASC active member
Haskell Wexler. Brown

spoke

on

moving

systems. Hansard discussed pro¬
photography and stage compositing

camera
cess

techniques, showing examples from the
movies Blue Thunder, Top Gun, and Back to
the Future. Samuelson showed footage
made with a new 180/360-degree camera
and projector invention. Wexler, along with
gaffer Colin Campbell, related some of the
lighting and filming techniques the pair use
on

features and in commercials.

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