Fish Head

Marcos Durian was born in Toronto. He started as a stills photo assistant and took photography classes at Ryerson University before moving to London to continue his education, then New York where he worked as a production assistant. With the opportunity to work with legendary photographer and commercial and music video director Herb Ritts at his commercial production company, Marcos relocated to Los Angeles and soon joined Local 600.

Serving as a freelance camera assistant in the commercial and music video world allowed Marcos to develop and fine-tune his skills, working with revered cinematographers such as Darius Khondji, ASC; Paul Cameron, ASC; Sal Totino, ASC, AIC; Pierre Rouger; Christophe Lanzenberg; and Jeff Cutter.

Marcos not only wrote and directed the short film Fish Head, he also served as his own cinematographer. The film was shot on the ARRI ALEXA Mini with Kowa Anamorphic lenses (provided by T-Stop Inc.). Fish Head is a Filipino-American coming of age story, which chronicles a young boy’s adversity with childhood, identity and being bullied at school.

With a minor, Madison Rojas, as the lead actor in almost every scene and a limited budget, the schedule was incredibly tight. Marcos was able to coordinate with his skillful crew to maximize the limited hours in the day. “We were after a very real, textured, natural look, so together with my producers, AD, gaffer, and key grip, we organized the scenes and schedule with the orientation of the sun, which would be our main light source, and planned Madison’s days around that trajectory. This gave us the ability to achieve the look we desired and sequence our schedule around our actors’ eight-hour days.”

Marcos would like to thank his entire cast and crew for an unforgettable and extraordinary experience bringing Fish Head to the silver screen. He would also like to thank his friends and family, particularly his mother, Lorenza, for her on-going support and encouragement and his Aunt Frances, who inspired him from a young age with her travel photos from around the world.

Recent cinematography work includes the feature film Itsy Bitsy, which will be released in late 2019 by Shout! Studios genre imprint Scream Factory, the TVOne Bobbi Kristina biopic and national commercials for The Company Store and Green Dot Financial. Other clients include Bona, DKNY, DELL, El Torito, Chevys and Peter Piper Pizza.