Bruce Logan

Appearing July 1-4

Bruce Logan will be appearing on Friday July 1, Saturday July 2, Sunday July 3, and Monday July 4 at booth 533. Bruce Logan is a legendary Cinematographer, Special Effects / Visual Effects innovator, Producer, Director, and Editor, known for his work on Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), TRON (1982), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), Batman Forever (1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Bruce is responsible for some of the most memorable visual effects and images from the past 50 years, such as Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star in Star Wars, cinema’s first journey into cyberspace with TRON, the revelation of the killer ape’s bones on the space ship in 2001: a Space Odyssey, the opening scene from Airplane with the shark-line tail fin gliding through the clouds to the music from Jaws, the miniature Lily Tomlin going down the garbage disposal in The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Hank Williams and his rowdy friends mixing it up on Monday Night Football, the hyped up Johnny Depp setting out on his acid road trip in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and much, much, more!

Bruce began his career in 1968 working under Stanley Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull on 2001: A Space Odyssey. He has worked as a DP on over a dozen films, including: Tron, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Airplane, Firefox, High Road to China, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Batman Forever, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Big Bad Mama, and Jackson County Jail. He did visual photography for most of these films as well.

He has racked up film credits that are almost too numerous to mention. He won two Emmys as a writer/director and Director of Photography. He has directed spots which garnered two advertising Golden Lions at the Cannes Film Festival. He has produced enormously popular Super Bowl spots. He has shot feature films, theater projects, television commercials, music videos, and television shows. He has produced 80 episodes of Network HDTV. And, he has been a colorist for film and television under his own company: Color by Rainbow.

Bruce has photographed music videos for pop artists Madonna, Prince, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Glenn Frey, the Go-Gos, and Hank Williams, Jr.. As well, Bruce has directed commercials for every major brand, including Pepsi, GE, Suzuki, Coliseum, Shell, Toyota, Mountain Dew, Jeep, Hitachi, National, Visa, Chevrolet, Pontiac, DuPont, Contac, Sprint, Amtrak, Suzuki, Sunlight, and Armstrong,