JAN KIESSER   CSC/ASC

Born: ?, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as Jan E. Kiesser. His family moved to Los Angeles [Studio City] when he was five.

Education: University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA].

Career: Served in the US Army in Germany. Started making Super 8mm films. Became anim ph in 1970. Became c.asst & c.op. Moved back to Canada in 1994.

Ph commercials dir by Nigel Dick, Ulf Buddensieck, Jon Stanley, Gary Weis, Louis Lyne, Danny Boyle, a.o.

Member of the ASC since 1992.

Awards: 'Genie' Award nom [1998] for 'Such a Long Journey'; 'Genie' Award nom [2002] for 'Rare Birds'; 'Emmy' Award nom [2003] for 'Door to Door'; ASC TV Award nom [2006] for 'Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical'; 'Genie' Award nom [2006] & CSC Award nom [2007] for 'Beowulf & Grendel'; 'Leo' Award [2007] for 'Fido'.

Website: Jan Kiesser

1970        Premonition/The Impure [Alan Rudolph] c; sfx ph (+ co-c.asst); ph: John Bailey

1976        Jackson County Jail/The Innocent Victim [Michael Miller] c; 2uc (+ 2ud); ph: Bruce Logan

1978        The Rose [Mark Rydell] c; co-add concert ph; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond

1981        Endangered Species [Alan Rudolph] c; addph; ph: Paul Lohmann

1981        Something Wicked This Way Comes [Jack Clayton] c; addph; ph: Stephen Burum

1982        Point of Departure [Jennifer Warren] ?; short/30m; prod American Film Institute

1982        Table for Five [Robert Lieberman] c; addph; ph: Vilmos Zsigmond

1983        Meatballs Part II/Space Kid [Ken Wiederhorn] c; 2uc; ph: Donald M. Morgan

1983        Return Engagement [Alan Rudolph] c; doc/89m

1984        Purple Hearts [Sidney J. Furie] p/c

1984        Choose Me [Alan Rudolph] c

1984        The River Rat [Tom Rickman] c; 2uc: David Myers & Steve Yaconelli

1984        Weird Science [John Hughes] c; co-addph; ph: Matthew Leonetti

1984        Fright Night [Tom Holland] p/c; filmed 1984-85

1985        The Check Is in the Mail.../The Cheque Is in the Post [Joan Darling] c

1986        Made in Heaven [Alan Rudolph] b&w/c

1986        Some Kind of Wonderful [Howard Deutch] c

1987        The Moderns [Alan Rudolph] c; addph; ph: Toyomichi Kurita

1987        Clean and Sober [Glenn Gordon Caron] c

1988        Sing [Richard Baskin] c; co-addph; ph: Peter Sova

1989        Dad [Gary David Goldberg] c

1990        V.I. Warshawski [Jeff Kanew] c; 2uc & boat chase seq: John M. Stephens

1992        Aspen Extreme [Patrick Hasburgh] c; co-2uc; ph: Steven Fierberg & Robert Primes

1992        Trouble Bound [Jeff Reiner] c; addph; ph: Janusz Kaminski

1992        King of the Hill [Steven Soderbergh] c; addph; ph: Elliot Davis

1992        The Air Up There [Paul Michael Glaser] replaced by ph Dick Pope

1993        Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle/Mrs. Parker and the Round Table [Alan Rudolph] s35/b&w-c

1994        Georgia [Ulu Grosbard] c

1994        Man with a Gun/Gun for Hire/Hired for Killing [David Wyles] c; 2uc: Wade Ferley; aph: Peter McLennan

1994        Jumanji [Joe Johnston] c; 2uc; ph: Thomas Ackerman

1995        Larger Than Life [Howard Franklin] c; 2uc; ph: Elliot Davis

1996        Bad Moon [Eric Red] Clairmont-Scope/c

1996        Kundun [Martin Scorsese] s35/c; co-2uc; ph: Roger Deakins

1997        Finding Graceland [David Winkler] c; addph; ph: Elliot Davis

1997        The X Files [Rob Bowman] s35/c; co-glacier unit ph; ph: Ward Russell

1997        The People [Aaron Lipstadt] c

1997        Such a Long Journey [Sturla Gunnarsson] c; originally a project with dir Deepa Mehta & ph Guy Dufaux (1994-95)

1998        Bruno/The Dress Code [Shirley MacLaine] c

1999        Trixie [Alan Rudolph] c

1999        Dr. T & the Women [Robert Altman] p/c; desert unit ph: Ed Lachman

2000        Rare Birds [Sturla Gunnarsson] c

2001        Now & Forever [Bob Clark] c

2001        I Spy [Betty Thomas] c; co-2uc; ph: Oliver Wood

2004        Beowulf & Grendel [Sturla Gunnarsson] s35/c