Alias: Curt Morgan
Location: Jackson, Wyoming, United States
Profession: Filmmaker
Label: Brain Farm
Website: BrainFarm.com
Notables: Award-winning snowboarding documentary That’s It, That’s All.; commercials and videos for Quiksilver, ESPN, National Geographic, and the United States Marine Corps

I wish I had a better plan, but I’m trying to make a film about the world right now through my eyes. I’m trying to use some of this technology we have right now, like our cinema truck and our snowmobile systems and our helicopter systems, to tell the story of the world today in a different way. For example, one thing I really enjoy is shooting the cars in downtown LA on the 405 at night. It’s a trip to see all the cars stack up.

That’s the thing, I want to show a shot of a guy smoking a cigarette in LA and make it look like something you’ve never seen before. I have all these ideas, and I’m just starting to build on them. We’ve had some good success doing action sports, and these tools are amazing for shooting them. But I’m trying to figure out a way to move on.

I saw the Cineflex on a helicopter, and I saw the images it captured in New Zealand while filming That’s It, That’s All [a groundbreaking HD snowboarding film Curt made in conjunction with Quicksilver and Red Bull], and it changed the way I thought. I like movement in images. I hate lock-off shots. But I don’t like shots with movement that are super shaky, so this camera answered all of those problems. I can put this camera anywhere, all over the world, and get a stable moving shot at the longest end of the lens.