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JOHN OGDEN has earned a reputation for creative cinematography that enhances the storyline and propels it forward. His hallmark is memorable images through composition, sumptuous lighting, and appropriate camera moves.
Ogden is renown for
his ability to capture the thought, expression and action
that audiences respond to. Over the last three decades Ogden has worked in practically all genres of film making.
Each genre has taught skills: documentaries and photo journalism taught the use of available light; MTV how to get dramatic and innovative images often without much in the way of resources; advertising has honed skills in the economy of time to impart a message; and drama the ability to make a story believable.
In 2010 Ogden wrote, directed and shot the short film House of Sticks. This original script tells the story of a grieving man given a revealing message from a stranger. Completed in February this year, House of Sticks has been submitted for the Cannes Film Festival 2011, the Sydney Film Festival, and now the Melbourne International Film Festival.
This latest project was primarily shot on a Red MX without compromising the look or tight budget, but Ogden is not restrained when choosing the appropriate medium for a project. For House of Sticks he seamlessly blended footage from the Canon 5D Mk2, Canon 7D, and Panasonic 202 to create a powerful and visual film.
Ogden's most recent documentary Sea of Darkness (2009) directed by Michael Oblowitz, took out the New York Surf film Festival and was winner of best documentary at X-Dance, as part of the Sundance Film Festival. Ogden supplied important historical footage for the project.
Cyclops Press is Ogden's publishing company and he spent many years steadily researching his latest book, powerful anthology of photographs Portraits from a Land Without People published in 2009. For the early stages he managed to fit in his demands as a DOP but 2008-2009 was a full time effort to get the book funded and completed. The book is now a critical and commercial success with over $82,000 raised towards the Jimmy Little Foundation's work improving Indigenous health.
Phillip Adams described Portraits from a Land Without People as “a magnificent book …as important a book as anything that’s been published in Australia for years”
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