Rick Wise
Oakland, CA, USA
Rick Wise lives in Oakland, California. He grew up in New York City and escaped the confines of the Eisenhower years as quickly as possible, moving to Beirut, Lebanon in 1957 and then to Paris France in 1958. Strongly influenced by Ingmar Bergman’ The Seventh Seal, Wise studied filmmaking at l’Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques for two years, and then worked for American productions in France.
In 1967 he moved to Berkeley where he assisted John Korty as he shot “Riverrun.” On the strength of a couple of expressionistic black-and-white documentaries he had shot in France he was hired at KQED in 1968 as a “filmmaker,” shooting and editing for the then game-changing Newsroom under Mel Wax and produced by Dave Grieve. When then-president Nixon cut PBS funding to the bone, he was let go along with most of his colleagues. After a couple of years in Los Angeles he returned to Berkeley, found and married the love of his life, and began to establish a new reputation as a sought-after cinematographer shooting commercials and high end corporate films.
Today, at the age of 81, he teaches lighting to graduate film students at the Academy of Art University. He shoots all the blog food photographs for his wife, cook-book author Victoria Wise, and revels in finding or creating matter for his still-photography eye.
- Arts
- Food
- Video capture
- Video editing