Kris worked in video and television for 25 years, including 14 for Radio-Canada/CBC, Canada’s public television station, where he was as a producer-director and  production editor for the French and English national networks. He also created sets, props and video graphics for many productions, and directed actors in dramatized sequences.

As an independent filmmaker he wrote, co-directed and edited a short film on the art of Applause (see below) and a 40 minute television feature based on J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata. In addition, he appeared in several independent short films.

Costumes and reenactment for prehistoric migration story, CBC/RC (costume design, concept, direction, editing)

Costumes and reenactment for prehistoric migration story, CBC/RC (costume design, concept, direction, editing)

Fake cave wall created for studio shoot, CBC/RC (concept, design, execution)

Prehistoric signs reenactment with actor Jay Hamburger and cameraman Éric Tremblay, CBC/RC (director, producer)

Video animation from photocopy for wave energy story, CBC/RC (concept, videographics, sound design, animation, editing, producing)

Fiscal paradise matrioshkas for The Enablers, CBC/RC (props, directing. editing, videographics)

Beverley Leung playing Glen Gould’s piano for science story, CBC/RC (concept, producer-director, editor)

TV series with Jacky Essombe, Radio-Canada (set design, props, videographics, direction, production, writing, editing)

As Baron Samedi in Sell Outs by New Faith Films (actor)

Nathaniel Watson & Suzie LeBlanc, More than a Thousand Kisses (with Prometheus Productions)

Props for More than a Thousand Kisses

Links to a few online samples:

Did early humans communicate with signs? (The National, CBC)

Fusion nucléaire (“Nuclear Fusion,” Découverte, Radio-Canada)

Applause! (Own independent short, with Timecode Productions)

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