Chris Renson
Cameraoperator
Chris Renson was born on the 27 of November
1962 in
After his studies in the Royal Athenaeum of
Keerbergen , where he lived , he went to
filmschool in
a more practical approach . So he started
very early to work as a grip and as an electrician on short
features, long features and commercials .
While he worked he continued his studies.
In his third year he was offered to be
Clapper loader on 2 long features: Mascara and
a strange love affair , the latter
produced by All Arts . Later they offered him to be clapper loader
on Z.O.O. , the second long fiction
film of Peter Greenaway .
When he finished his studies, All Arts
offered him to be focus puller on
Drowning by numbers and later on The cook , the
thief , his wife and her lover .
Other features as focus puller are: Dilemma and Sailors don't cry .
Next step was to be Camera operator on Peter
Greenaway's next movie: Prospero's
books.
That started his passion for his profession.
After that came The Baby of Macon , Achterland , De zevende hemel and almost twenty
features
for the French television .
In 1999 he was seven weeks in the States to
shoot a documentary called Technocalyps .
Then he worked on a comic feature from the
French comic actor Jean-Marie
Bigard called L'ame soeur .
And to finish he worked on Rembrandt with director Charles Matton ,
Cinematographer Pierre Dupouey and featuring Klaus-Maria Brandauer as Rembrandt.
In 2000 he mainly stayed in
This film was nominated for the Oscars of non
English spoken films.
He also worked with Luc Pien on Vergeten straat and
with Chris Vanderstappen on que faisaient les femmes quand l'homme
marchait sur la lune.
In 2001 he worked with Jacques Otmezguine on Une employee modele and
with Mehdi Chareff he shot Bent Keltoum in
In 2002 He worked with T. De Mey on Fase, a filmed choreography of
Ann Theresa De Keersmaeker
With Y. Samuel on Jeux D'enfants with M.Cotillard and G. Canet
And shot a TV feature in
In 2003 he worked with P. Bouchitey on Imposture
Shot a TV feature in
In 2004 some TV work, A TV series called La Battante
He shot a part of a feature in
In 2005 He worked with Pierre Paul
Renders on Comme tout le monde
With M.Riviere on Le Lièvre de Vatanen with C. Lambert
and made a TV feature called Comme sur des roulettes.
In 2006 He worked on the first
feature film of writer Eric-Emanuel Schmidt
Called Odette toulemonde. He worked
on some TV series as
Commissaire Cordier with director
Henri Helmann and on a New Series for TF1 called
Paris Enquêtes criminelles with Gilles Béat
Chris Renson is a versatile operator. He
works as easily with a geared head as with a fluid head as
handheld. 18 years of experience taught him
to respect all members of the crew and trained him in
working under difficult conditions .The most
important thing is that the actors feel comfortable playing in
front of the camera and still have
technically outstanding shots in the time given .
He worked with different cinematographers as Sacha Vierny, Henry Alekan,
Willy Stassen, Bernard Malaisy, Jean Penzer, Patrice Payen , Dominique Collin,
Antoine Roch, Carlo Varini, Virginie St-Martin, Michel Houssiau, Pierre Dupouey,
Alain Marcoen, Alain Levent, Stefan Ivanov, Raymond Fromont, Thierry Schwartz
He speaks fluently Flemish, French and English.
