CURTIS CLARK, ASC

  Cinematographer

Curtis Clark, ASC was raised in Texas. He studied theatre at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Goodman School of Drama and cinematography at the London Film School. He began his career by shooting numerous documentary films in Britain before transitioning to shooting feature films.

Clark’s feature credits include such artful narrative films as The Draughtsman’s Contract, Dominick and Eugene, Alamo Bay, Extremities and Triumph of the Spirit.

He began filming television commercials in the early 90s, which put him on the forefront of the digital/film frontier. He continues to add to his hundreds of commercial credits working with cutting-edge directors and ad agencies.

Clark also chairs the ASC Technology Committee, an important motion picture industry forum that investigates emerging digital technologies that affect filmmaking practice. Since it’s inception in 2003, The ASC Technology Committee has achieved notable successes including its collaborative work with the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) to produce standardized test material for evaluating the performance of digital projectors and other elements of digital cinema systems. Amongst its multiple initiatives, the Committee has been working on a groundbreaking project to create cross platform data exchange for primary RGB digital color correction referred to as the ASC CDL (Color Decision List). Version 1.0 has been released and broad based Industry implementation is well advanced.