When we were in Italy, Chris worked at EURAC, a research institute that houses several different institutes that cover a variety of projects, including the language-related research that Chris worked on, plus the study of mummies, medical research, and many other things. Shortly before he left, Chris was one of the actors in a promotional film about EURAC. It’s just been uploaded on the EURAC website. Click here to see the movie in English. Be patient – the movie takes a while to load. However, stick around: at 1.14 Chris can be seen showing off one of his projects on a computer screen (to a friend and colleague who was another “actor” in the film), plus Chris has a short speaking part right near the end (3.05). His name is also in the credits.
BTW, the link above is to the English language version of the movie. It’s also available in Italian here and in German here. Chris speaks in all the languages – a multilingual star!
Hope you enjoy it – I certainly found it fun to see Chris is in this official blast from his recent past. 🙂
**** Update: Since some people encountered problems running the videos off of the EURAC website, I’ve loaded versions that are hopefully more compatible with more browsers. Click on a link below to open that version of the movie in a new window:
I went to the website and it said Eurac movie (english) but there was an empty space above it and no place to load the movie. There were other videos on the side to press: Eurac science cafe, eurac institut fur alpine, culture meets economy.
There was webtv but nothing came. Any suggestions?
I was able to see it and had no trouble at all. It was fascinating. I knew nothing about where Chris worked or what he was doing. Great job, Chris!
Yes, I recognize that guy.
Actually, does anyone else see a resemblance between this new star and the established one Kris Kristofferson? Recently while watching an ancient (1974) Kristofferson film, I noticed a striking likeness to Chris at certain camera angles.
I’d like to send an image to illustrate, but since that’s beyond my skill level, let me try changing my avatar for a moment.
Note to Stan: the movie took forever to load in Firefox, required special permission to run Windows Media Player in Chrome, and ran without problems in Internet Explorer. So don’t give up!
Thanks for the comments. Stan, hope the new links I added to the post will allow you to watch it!
@Mary Ann: That’s where Chris worked until last August; he’s a computational linguistics professor here in Tübingen now (a “visiting” professor for the next few years).
@Will: Too funny. I just did a quick search for images of Kris Kristofferson, and didn’t find the one in the Avatar you’re using to put a link here. But I can see in some other photos how, if Chris C. grew his hair a little longer, and you look at him from a certain angle, he and Kris K. *might* look a little alike. Maybe it’s that film star lighting…
BTW, didn’t Kris K. star in a remake of “A Star is Born” back in the 1970’s? Maybe my blog post title put the idea of the resemblance in your mind. 😉