Curtis Clark

Movies

Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
Producer
Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.
Talent for the Game
Director of Photography
Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
Triumph of the Spirit
Director of Photography
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.
Dominick and Eugene
Director of Photography
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when Eugene must decide between his devotion to his brother, or his need to go away to complete his training. Things are also not helped by Dominick's co-worker, or Eugene's budding romance.
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
Director of Photography
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
Thy Kingdom Come ... Thy Will Be Done
Cinematography
No one would accuse director Anthony Thomas of presenting an unbiased view of religious fundamentalism in this film, which won a Special Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Intent on exposing what he perceives to be a dangerous connection between the religious and political right, Thomas interviews born-again Christians and then directs his lens on Heritage USA, the religious complex established by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
Made in U.S.A.
Director of Photography
Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.
Extremities
Director of Photography
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the information in her bag and comes to her apartment with the intent of rape, but she sprays him in the face with insect repellent, and then holds him captive. She is then faced with deciding whether to go to the police who might not believe her and release him, or to kill him.
Dead Man's Folly
Director of Photography
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Thirteen at Dinner
Director of Photography
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Sesame Street: Follow That Bird
Director of Photography
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
Alamo Bay
Director of Photography
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
The Beniker Gang
Director of Photography
When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.
Four American Composers: John Cage
Director of Photography
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
Director of Photography
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
Director of Photography
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
Director of Photography
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his signature minimal sound.
Nelly's Version
Director of Photography
People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.
The Draughtsman's Contract
Lighting Camera
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
The Draughtsman's Contract
Director of Photography
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
The Telephone
Cinematography
A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super 16mm Kodak film stock to be used on Peter Greenaway’s upcoming feature The Draughtsman’s Contract.
The Exile
Cinematography
Like plants, people can either thrive or wither when removed from their native soil, as this short film explores.
Blue Suede Shoes
Director
British Hustle
Director
It shows what the underground soul scene was really like back in the late 70’s.