Michael Goi

Birthday: 4 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Height: 178 cm

Michael Goi, ASC, ISC was born and raised in Chicago. He attended Columbia College, graduating as valedictorian of his class with a BA in Film. He subsequently served as a part-time instructor at the college, teaching lighting and basic film techniques. He has compiled over 70 narrative credits, including films for cinema and television screens such as "American Horror Story," "Glee," "Salem" and "The Town That Dreaded Sundown." He has received Emmy nominations for "Glee", "My Name Is Earl" and "American Horror Story." He was nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Award for the telefilms "The Fixer" and "Judas" and for the pilot "The New Normal" and the mini-series "American Horror Story: Asylum". He also wrote and directed the dramatic feature film "Megan Is Missing" about the subject of internet predators, and several episodes of "American Horror Story" and other shows..Michael Goi is a past president of the American Society of Cinematographers, serves on the Board Of Governors of the ASC, and is the editor of the 10th Edition of the ASC Manual. He was made an Honorary Member of the Indian Society Of Cinematographers (ISC) in 2010 for his efforts to increase international collaboration and communication amongst the world's cinematography organizations. Michael has appeared as a guest speaker at the American Film Institute, the University of Southern California, Walt Disney Animation Studios (for whom he demonstrated ice and snow lighting concepts for animators working on the film "Frozen,"), CineGear, IBC and many other international industry events. He is a member of the National Executive Board of the International Cinematographers Guild, the Directors Guild Of America, the Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences and the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. He regularly mentors students for various industry programs. An unrepentant movie buff, he has been known to spend all night in his home theater watching selections from the over 18,000 films in his collection. Hide

[on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] Super 8 film is more than just a format for me. It has an immediate Show more [on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] Super 8 film is more than just a format for me. It has an immediate aesthetic voice, a familiarity that creates an emotional response in the viewer. I use this to great advantage when I use Super 8 film on American Horror Story . It brings you back to cinema in its purest form, when the average person could, for the first time, pick up a camera and make a movie. Motion picture film creates images that are an organic extension of my dreams and imagination. It transforms light into images that are more than just representations of reality; they are images of what I'd like reality to be. [2016] Hide

[on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] Super 8 film is more than just a format for me. It has an immediate Show more [on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] Super 8 film is more than just a format for me. It has an immediate aesthetic voice, a familiarity that creates an emotional response in the viewer. I use this to great advantage when I use Super 8 film on "American Horror Story" (2011). It brings you back to cinema in its purest form, when the average person could, for the first time, pick up a camera and make a movie. Motion picture film creates images that are an organic extension of my dreams and imagination. It transforms light into images that are more than just representations of reality; they are images of what I'd like reality to be. [2016] Hide

Michael Goi's FILMOGRAPHY

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