Chris Renson

Movies

Red Island
Camera Operator
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.
Black Beach
Camera Operator
Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.
TechnoCalyps
Cinematography
Are we prepared for dealing with the prospect that humanity is not the end of evolution? Technocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys. The latest findings in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology appear in the media every day, but with no analysis of their common aim: that of exceeding human limitations. The director conducts his enquiry into the scientific, ethical and metaphysical dimensions of technological development.
Beauville
Director of Photography
Tragicomedy about a man who hears he has got one more week to live and who brings his two water turtles to the sea to set them free.
Darwin
Cinematography
A revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the publication of his seminal Theory of Evolution and his ultimate death and consequent burial at Westminster Abbey.
Rosa
Camera Operator
A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
A Zed & Two Noughts
Clapper Loader
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
God's Spy
"A" Camera Operator