VICTOR GOSS - Cinematographer/Writer/Director
A camera has always been in Victor’s hands. With his parents on summer holiday at age four, he wandered Yosemite Valley carrying an Ansco 620 flash camera around his neck trying to duplicate the photography of Ansel Adams he’d seen lining the walls in the gift shop at the Ahwahnee Hotel.
Back home he was hypnotized by the moving image of 35mm film dancing in the arclight of the projector gate. This was a bedtime story for Victor, as his dad babysat him in the projection booth of their drive-in theater at night.
Victor recited nursery rhymes on camera while his dad tested equipment used for making newsreels before cable brought network TV to the Santa Maria Valley. When TV finally finished off the drive-in business for good, Victor moved south looking for a career in the studios.
After running errands as a gopher on an AIP summer Beach Blanket film and picking up work doing every job on the set, Victor got his grubby little hands on a motion picture camera of his own and began shooting and directing national TV commercials, and winning important awards.
Victor’s background in writing - and commercials - brought him to the hit TV series WONDER YEARS as cinematographer and 2d unit director. The Golden Globe and multiple Emmy-winning GABRIEL’S FIRE (James Earl Jones) followed where Victor - along with a handful of fellow TV commercial-making alumni – brought a visual revolution to dramatic TV that continues to advance to this day.
A decade of episodic television brought opportunities to develop further cinematography and director chops and to gain the confidence and abilities to shoot difficult schedules - cutting through the fog of production, and delivering exciting stories on-time and on-budget.
Victor’s experience with writing, performers, cameras and lighting through shooting concert films, commercials, and dramatic films - for both television and the big screen - has given him insight into storytelling style and statement with a camera, appropriate to his CINEMA PARADISO upbringing.
This successful film career has been built upon a study of eastern philosophy and meditation under an authentic Tibetan master for fourteen years, coupled with life-long research of anomalous science and psychic adventures – which together have catapulted Victor to this quintessential creative crossroads of existential cinema.
Victor is also a rabid touring cyclist. Every weekend finds him on his Scott CR-1 riding with Santa Monica's very own TEAM MARTINI - burning up the pavement along the Southern California coastline from Newport Beach to Santa Barbara - and beyond.