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Chris Coles | |
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| Born | Christopher Coles Wareham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) National Film and Television School |
| Known for | Painting, film production management |
| Movement | Expressionism, Bangkok Noir |
Chris Coles is an artist and former movie production manager. After 18 years working in the movie industry, he moved to Bangkok, where he became known for his Expressionist paintings portraying Bangkok nightlife.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Coles was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, and raised in Brunswick, Maine, the son of James Stacy Coles, who served as the president of Bowdoin College from 1952 to 1967.[3]
He graduated from Brown University in 1969.[4] He received a Watson Fellowship following graduation and traveled in East Africa for a year before moving to London. In September 1971, he became a student at the UK National Film School (later the National Film and Television School) graduating in 1974. His graduation film, Horse-Boy (1974), written and produced by Coles and photographed by fellow student Roger Deakins, is available in the Motion Picture Academy Film Archive.[5]
Film career
[edit]Between 1977 and the mid-1995, Coles worked in the film industry as a location manager, unit production manager, and associate producer.
Filmography
[edit]- Horse-Boy (1974, short) – Producer, screenwriter
- Superman (1977) – Location manager (New York)[6]
- Night of the Juggler (1980) – Production associate
- The Jazz Singer (1980) – Production coordinator (New York)
- Superman II (1980) – Production coordinator (New York)
- Ballet Robotique (1982, short) – Production manager
- Superman III (1983) – Production manager (US)
- Supergirl (1984) – Production manager (US)
- Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) – Production manager (North America/Arctic)[7]
- Rainbow War (1985, short) – Production supervisor
- The Rosary Murders (1987) – Associate producer, unit production manager
- Out Cold (1989) – Associate producer, unit production manager
- The Boyfriend School (also released as Don't Tell Her It's Me, 1990) – Associate producer, unit production manager[8]
- L.A. Story (1991) – Unit production manager
- Chaplin (1992) – Unit production manager
- Sirens (1993, TV series) – Producer (Season 1, 13 episodes)
- The Road to Wellville (1994) – Unit production manager
- Cutthroat Island (1995) – Production executive (Thailand unit)
Coles's film production files—including scripts, daily schedules, budgets, and cost sheets from 1977 to 1995—are archived as the Chris Coles Papers in the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[9] Production files for the tv series Sirens are housed at Bowdoin College's George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives.[10]
Painting and the "Bangkok Noir" movement
[edit]In 2000, Coles established a residence and studio in Bangkok, turning to painting full-time.[1]
Working in acrylics and watercolors, Coles created a series of paintings based on Bangkok's nightlife using an Expressionist style similar to the German Expressionists, with distorted figures and saturated color, depicting bar workers, patrons, and street scenes.[11][12]
Bangkok Cultural critic Philip Cornwel-Smith calls Coles's paintings the visual signature of the Bangkok Noir scene, describing Coles work as documenting the city's underbelly through caricature and intense palettes.[13] Other commentators have drawn comparisons between Coles's paintings and the nightlife paintings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Egon Schiele.[1]
Coles's paintings are linked to Bangkok crime fiction writers. He did cover paintings for two of Bangkok author Christopher G. Moore's books, including The Corruptionist (2010), and collaborated with Bangkok poet John Gartland on the Bangkok, Heart of Noir (2015).[14]
Exhibitions
[edit]- One Night in Bangkok (2009) – Forth Gallery, Singapore (IndigNation festival)
- Navigating the Bangkok Noir (2009) – Liam's Gallery, Pattaya, Thailand
- Color of Day / Color of Night (2011) – Koi Art Gallery, Bangkok
- Portraits from the Bangkok Night (2011–2012) – Bed Supperclub, Bangkok
- Paintings from the Bangkok Night (2012) – Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT), Bangkok
- Night Vision (2013) – Meta House Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Flowers, One Butterfly and the Bangkok Night (2016) – Brainwake Cafe and Gallery, Bangkok
- Bangkok Neon (2017) – Check Inn 99, Bangkok[15]
- Noir Nights in Phnom Penh (2018) – Meta House Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Publications
[edit]- Navigating the Bangkok Noir (Marshall Cavendish Editions, Singapore, 2011; ISBN 978-981-4346-49-8)
- Bangkok la Noire (with Hervé Grillot; Éditions GOPE, 2013; ISBN 979-10-91328-05-0)
- Bangkok, Heart of Noir (with John Gartland; Lizardville Productions, 2015)
- Writings, Reviews & Interviews with the Artist of the Bangkok Noir (Singapore Art Books, 2019; ISBN 978-1980435913)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 DeHart, Jonathan (September 2, 2016). "Painting the Bangkok Night". The Diplomat.
- ↑ Pollard, Jim (October 16, 2012). "Creatures of the Night". The Nation. Bangkok.
- ↑ "James S. Coles, 83, Ex-Head of Bowdoin College". The New York Times. June 15, 1996.
- ↑ "Painting". Brown Alumni Magazine. November 27, 2012.
- ↑ "Horse-Boy (1974)". Academy Film Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- ↑ "Superman (1978)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute.
- ↑ "Santa Claus: The Movie". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute.
- ↑ "Movie Review: Don't Tell Her It's Me". Los Angeles Times. September 21, 1990.
- ↑ "Chris Coles papers". Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- ↑ "Sirens production papers". George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College.
- ↑ Itthipongmaetee, Chayanit (January 16, 2016). "The Depraved Joy of Chris Coles and the 'Bangkok Noir'". Khaosod English.
- ↑ Brownell, Ginanne (July 5, 2013). "Contemporary Art Takes Root in Bangkok". The New York Times.
- ↑ Cornwel-Smith, Philip (2020). Very Bangkok: In the City of the Senses. River Books. p. 142. ISBN 978-616-451-043-2.
- ↑ Dorsey, Paul (November 24, 2017). "Beacons in the Boozy Night". The Nation. Bangkok.
- ↑ Cummings, Kevin (December 3, 2017). "Back on Song: Rebirth of an Icon". Bangkok Post Brunch Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 49. pp. 7–9.
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