James Ransom is a director of photography and a multimedia artist with
the Oily Film Company.
He studied fine arts at the University of Ottawa. He has shot three
feature films and a large array of music videos, shorts, and
installation pieces. At the moment, he is working on a series of
stop-motion animated shorts for the Ontario Arts Council and his
cinematography in the field of title sequences won a SXSW title design
award in 2012 for "Les Blues De Ramville". His work on new Canadian
t.v. series, "Hardrock Medical", is nominated in the same category in
2013.