Benjamin Bergery

Met Dr John at MIT in Cambridge.

Made an opus of early video movies in the Eighties including Young August, Pond Quartet and Time Code Suites. Made dozens of early live music videos (The Cure, Gang of Four, Buzzcocks...) in Boston with Jan Crocker.

Taught video at MIT, where he produced the first interactive art videodisc, Elastic Movies with Luc Courchesnes, Bill Seaman and others in 1984. Made The Interactive Bed with John Thompson in 1988.

Worked at Atari, editing video games and at Lucas Film, developing non-linear editing systems.

Taught cinematography at USC in Los Angeles.

Worked for Panavision where he created the New Filmmaker Program, and conducted numerous workshops in US and Europe. Helped introduce HDCAM cameras for use on French feature films.

Directed first French short film shot in HDCAM, La Bise, in 2002

Author of Reflections, a book about cinematography published by ASC Press. Journalist for the American Cinematographer. Consulting Member of the AFC, the French society of cinematographers.

Went to Belarus in 2005 to make short documentary of Dr John in action.

Benjamin lives in Paris with his wife Kim, and is a free-lance media consultant, writer and teacher.