About Me

I’m Kane George Jason; filmmaker & photographer currently based in Western Australia.

FILMMAKER

I have many years of experience in the film and TV industry in roles including director, producer & editor. These have been in a diverse range of projects from features, shorts, documentaries, television & music videos.

I founded Contempovision Films in 2004 to produce film & TV projects. In 2005 I started the Perth Filmmakers Directory for filmmakers to network and find cast & crew. In late 2007 I was accepted into the inaugural Portable Screen Academy (sponsored by AFTRS & ACMI). We at Contempovision have also released a compilation DVD in 2008 with the first 10 Contempovision projects titled ‘From Conception To New Born’.

I began with small assistant roles and worked my way up, now preferring to direct &/or produce unless the project is good for the experience. All these small jobs have enabled me to paint a more complete picture when it comes to making any type of project and many of my films have now screened at film festivals, TV stations & newspapers around the world.

PHOTOGRAPHER

My love of photography is relatively new in comparison to my filmmaking experience but I’ve always had a keen interest in the visuals. Come to think of it, It’s probably grown from within the film world where you can tell a story or convey an idea with images – here I’m just dropping the ‘s’ to make it a singular image. I also think the two (whilst they are two vastly different art forms to master) are somewhat related and gaining experience and expertise in one will benefit the other. For example I often think whilst taking photographs that “this would make a great scene”, and vice versa.

In terms of equipment I have a somewhat stubborn fetish when it comes to lenses – old German & Russian lenses to be exact. I am totally in love with them and the main reason is that they have the most amazing characteristics that you wont find on most of the new lenses from the big names because they focus on pixels & sharpness these days. Give me a Helios or MIR over a Nikon or Sigma any day! Another reason is that the German made Carl Zeiss i use are almost exactly the same as the new Carl Zeiss lenses in the Canon & Nikon mounts – which cost thousands a piece! All i have to do is cheaply adapt the M42 mount lenses to my cameras and boom – i get lenses that cost a couple thousand dollars for a mere few hundred!

I do however give in to the giant Canon when it comes to camera body’s – as i have both a film and digital body. I use film & digital as they both have their respective pros and cons but in a perfect world i would exclusively use film, although digital is making huge ground. My current kit is:

Canon EOS 1N
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.8/20mm
Pentacon 2.8/29mm
MIR 24H 2/35mm
Carl Zeiss Distagon 2.8/35mm
Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/50mm
Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/85mm
Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/135mm
Jupiter 21M 4/200mm