Carlos Bustamante (filmmaker)

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Carlos Bustamante (* 1941 ) is a Mexican filmmaker , cameraman and photographer . He lives in Berlin .

Live and act

In 1966 he completed his studies in theater studies at the University of Arizona and studied from 1967 to 1970 in the second year of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). From 1970 he worked as a freelance cameraman. From 1975 to 1977 he was professor for animation film and photography at the University of Mexico (UNAM). From 1989 to 2006 he was professor for the theory of audiovisual design and realization at the Berlin University of the Arts .

In addition to his own early work such as Green Beret , De Oppresso Liber , Adelbert's Dilemma , he is involved in numerous films as a director, cameraman or actor. He has worked with Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Helma Sanders-Brahms , Günter Peter Straschek , Felipe Cazals, Affonso Beato , Hartmut Bitomsky , Harun Farocki , Skip Norman, Hartmut Jahn , Peter Wensierski and Bernward Wember , among others . He also worked with the RAF member Holger Meins, who later died on a hunger strike, and Werner Sauber , a member of the June 2nd movement who was shot in 1975 .

He also works in the context of interdisciplinary artistic projects and is regarded as an outstanding director, cameraman and editor of contemporary concert films and performance documentaries.

In the exhibition review "Two Photographers in Berlin: Irving Penn & Carlos Bustamante", Wilfried Reichart describes Bustamante's photo series as "a wonderful composition".

literature

  • Les vingt années du cinéma français, edited by Jean A. Gili, Michêle Lagny, Michel Marie, Vincent Pinel, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, ISBN 2-87854-095-6 ; AGFA, Kullmann, Singer & Cie et le cinéma français des premiers temps
  • Moving Images, From Edison to the Webcam, edited by John Fullerton and Astrid Söderbergh Widding, John Libbey Publishing, Sydney 2000, ISBN 1-86462-054-4 ; The Bolex Motion Picture Camera
  • Image theory and film, edited by Thomas Koebner and Thomas Meder in conjunction with Fabienne Liptay, edition text + criticism in Richard Boorberg Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-802-8 ; Section III, page 335, Carlos Bustamante, The Bolex and the film images of the American avant-garde

Exhibitions photography

  • Between empathy and distance , Weekend Galerie Berlin 1984, with H. Joosten, H. Langenhuijzen and M. Serenari
  • German Spirituals , Kunstlicht Galerie, Berlin 1985
  • Down to Earth , photo gallery in Wedding, Berlin 1986
  • Recherches Photographiques : 7 Photographes Berlinois, 5th Biennale Internationale de l'Image de Nancy 1987, France
  • Las flores de Roberto Koch , Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, 2016
  • Free and outdoors , photo pioneers, Berlin, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on IMDb
  2. ↑ Graduates of the DFFB ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dffb.de
  3. ↑ Short biography in the concert program
  4. ↑ List of works for film from 1967 to 2011 on Filmportal.de
  5. ↑ Carlos Bustamante on Holger Meins
  6. ↑ THE LONELY WALKER | DFFB. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Text and videos on performances by grapeshade
  8. ^ Exhibition review in Filmdienst by Wilfried Reichart "Two Photographers in Berlin: Irving Penn & Carlos Bustamante"
  9. ^ L'Est Républicain, January 17, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Bustamante, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican filmmaker, cameraman, photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941