John Hanson (director)
Encyclopedia
John Hanson is an American
movie director
and cinematographer
.
won the Caméra d'Or
award at the Cannes Film Festival
for Best First Feature of 1979. In addition to many other film awards, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northland College. He is past Chair and current board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He was a founding member of Cine Manifest, a seminal independent film collective in San Franscisco and the Independent Feature Project. He lives in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
"Below the Sky Photographs of the High Plains"
The High Plains - the Dakotas, Montana, southern Saskatchewan - lie under a vast sky. Weather and wind throw cloud shadows across the landscape, a moving panorama of light, color and form. Earth meets sky at an incredibly distant horizon. Transcendent images materialize, drift away, reappear as the light shifts through the heavens. These remarkable photographs, taken over a span of thirty years, capture the magical moods and textures of a sublime, singular landscape - a rare retrospective of images taken by film director John Hanson as he rambled the back roads of the plains below the sky. With an introduction by Minnesota writer Patricia Hampl and a foreword by John Hanson. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2000611
Director
Producer
Writer
Editor
Actor
United States
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movie director
Film director
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and cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
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Early Life
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota and raised in North Dakota, John Hanson received his B.A. from Carleton College and did postgraduate studies in architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design.Career
He began his career in film, going on to direct the motion pictures NORTHERN LIGHTS, WILDROSE and SHIMMER and numerous film, video and television documentaries. His films have been shown at film festivals around the world, including Venice, Berlin, London, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Sundance and Cannes, where Northern LightsNorthern Lights (1978 film)
Northern Lights was a 1978 independent film which dramatizes the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, a Socialist political movement which took place in the American Midwest in the early 1900s....
won the Caméra d'Or
Caméra d'Or
The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
award at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
for Best First Feature of 1979. In addition to many other film awards, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northland College. He is past Chair and current board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He was a founding member of Cine Manifest, a seminal independent film collective in San Franscisco and the Independent Feature Project. He lives in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
Books
"Below the Sky Photographs of the High Plains"
The High Plains - the Dakotas, Montana, southern Saskatchewan - lie under a vast sky. Weather and wind throw cloud shadows across the landscape, a moving panorama of light, color and form. Earth meets sky at an incredibly distant horizon. Transcendent images materialize, drift away, reappear as the light shifts through the heavens. These remarkable photographs, taken over a span of thirty years, capture the magical moods and textures of a sublime, singular landscape - a rare retrospective of images taken by film director John Hanson as he rambled the back roads of the plains below the sky. With an introduction by Minnesota writer Patricia Hampl and a foreword by John Hanson. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2000611
Film
Director
- Northern Lights 1978
- Shimmer 1993
- Wildrose 1984
- Traveling Light 1988
Producer
- Northern Lights 1978
- Secrets 1971
Writer
- Northern Lights 1978
- Wildrose 1984 (screenplay / story)
Editor
- Northern Lights 1978
- Baker's Hawk 1976 (as John Stag Hanson)
Actor
- Heat and Sunlight 1987
- Cine Manifest (documentary) (Himself)