Gaffer — Vienna, Austria

Light for commercials
and film

Christian "Chisti" Gruber — Gaffer since 2000

Lighting design and execution for advertising, feature film and television.

Knight and Day — Fox· Treadstone — Amazon Prime· The Selection — Warner Bros.· JD.com

Selected Work

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JD.com02:04

Ikea00:50

Hyundai — Ioniq Lineup00:57

Deutsche Bahn01:01

eBay00:30

Billa — "Danke"02:50

Full reel at vimeo.com/christiangruber

Filmography

Selected

Knight and Day 20th Century Fox Rigging Gaffer Dir. James Mangold · DP Phedon Papamichael

Treadstone Amazon Prime Gaffer Dir. Alex Graves · DP Thomas Kloss

The Selection (Pilot) Warner Bros. Lighting Designer Dir. Alex Graves · DP Thomas Kloss

TV Series & Films — Austria

Mutig in die neuen Zeiten· Das Eis bricht· Die Gipfelzipfler· Tatort· CopStories· Trakehnerblut· Recht oder Gerechtigkeit· Meiberger· Walking on Sunshine· Todesfrist· Todesurteil· Hades· Mama ist die Best(i)e· Rita und Hans

Around 6 TV series, 10 TV movies and 8 feature films as lighting technician and gaffer.

Clients & Brands

Billa· Ikea· A1· Deutsche Bahn· Magenta· eBay· Ford· Hyundai· Smart· MAN· McDonald's· Nivea· Škoda· Alfa Romeo· Nissan· Wella· Volksbank· Bank Austria· Ritter Sport· Media Markt· Braun· Visa· Knoppers· Voestalpine· Wien Tourismus· Prefa· Remus· Thomy· Attensam· Lavita· JD.com

Christian Gruber on set in front of a lighting rig with tungsten fixtures — On Set

Black-and-white portrait of Christian Gruber — Christian "Chisti" Gruber

Career

Service technician at a lighting rental house, later head of department.

Lighting technician — around 25 feature films, music videos and commercials.

First major gaffer job after a four-month shoot in the Dominican Republic (Klinik unter Palmen).

Gaffer and lighting designer internationally — Fox, Amazon Prime, Warner Bros.

About

Christian Gruber has worked in film as a gaffer since 2000, responsible for lighting design and execution on set — from planning the lighting plot, through rigging, to fine-tuning during the shoot, in close collaboration with director and cinematographer.

The work spans large-scale builds for international film and television to reduced, naturalistic setups for commercials and music videos — light that serves the image, never itself.

Productions have taken him around the world — to New York, Miami, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Iceland, Greenland, Barcelona, Sicily, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hamburg and the Dominican Republic, among others.