Clement Cann

Sam Cook and I

My earliest filmmaking recollection was Chicago, August 1961 on vacation with my parents. Armed with an 8mm motion picture camera I followed the maids cleaning rooms at the Robert’s motel into the room of the unsuspecting R&B legend, Sam Cooke who bribed me with the promise of a picture later if I would turn off my camera.

Fast-forward ten years to Cambridge Massachusetts. As a sophomore at Harvard University I was selected to participate in the Carpenter Center, Visual and Environmental Studies program. Concentrating in film and photography, I won a university wide film contest and graduated three years later, Magna Cum Laude.

My professional career is in its fourth decade. In the seventies, I worked in television news, documentary film, and video. Music, corporate video and multi-image comprised the bulk of my work in the eighties, and video production and instruction was my primary focus in the nineties.  Throughout my career I have also worked in documentary, fashion, and educational photography. Since the turn of the century, I’ve managed an educational access cable television station. Most recently I was awarded the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Best Documentary Half-Hour Length in the 2007 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.

My company name says it all, I can. I could bore you with pages of production credits, etc., but I won’t. If you have a video job that needs to be done right, I can!