Jon Sorensen Filmworks and Dreamscapes Page

Jon Sorensen was born and raised in the Scottish Highlands. As a teenager he saw the films "STAR WARS" and, more significantly, "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND". He hitch-hiked from Scotland to London and was hired in the visual effects department of the original "ALIEN" where he worked alongside Ridley Scott on the miniatures and "alien FX" whilst living and sleeping in the studio dressing-room famously used by Christopher Lee in the "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" movies made by Hammer Films. "ALIEN" won the Oscar for best visual effects, and Sorensen was finally persuaded to move his sleeping bag out of the studio and he went on to work on other films such as "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK", "SUPERMAN 2", "THE TIME BANDITS", "EXCALIBUR", "OUTLAND", "MOONRAKER", and both "DRAGONSLAYER" and "THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS" for Disney. He also worked alongside the late Jim Henson on the epic middle-earth feature film "THE DARK CRYSTAL". Sorensen had by now set his sleeping bag up on the back lot of Elstree Studios amongst the giant toadstools and alien plant-life constructed for that Henson film. At about this time, he caught sight of two "bio-pics" made by Brit director Ken Russell about the "romantic" poets Wordsworth and Coleridge shot in the English Lake District. So he moved there himself and made two movies as Writer-Producer-Director. These were "A RETURN TO LOVE" (1996) for television and the David Lynch/X-Files/New Age sci-fi feature "ALIEN BLOOD" (2000). The U.S. Distributor's ad-line for the latter was "The Truth Is Out There...Way Out There!" Moving sideways from his camera/visual effects expertise, Sorensen immersed himself in the Sound Design and music supervision for these films which led directly to his becoming a prolific composer in his own right of Ambient/Electronica music. His compositions are filmically linked to the cerebral image-bank of the listener, designed to take you on a "cinematic" trip with every new track. Atmospheric, mythical, ambient, techno and full of "plot twists", they display Sorensen's ongoing passion for music and film of all types, supernature, the planet and all its' people, the human spirit, and a "sense of wonder" about all and everything. He continues to maintain contacts in Hollywood and still makes movies, the next of which is "SEEKER", a global/cosmic, "ambient feature film" which will incorporate all-new music from Sorensen. This "head-trip" will be completed end 2007 and available shortly thereafter. Sorensen still has his sleeping-bag.(CCT RECORDS "OFFICIAL BIO" OF JON SORENSEN)

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