Eduardo Serra

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Eduardo Martins Serra (born October 2, 1943 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese - French cameraman and film director .

Life

Eduardo Serra was born in Lisbon in 1943. From 1960 to 1963 he studied engineering at the renowned Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon . From 1964 to 1966 Serra trained as a cameraman at the Paris film school École Louis Lumière and studied archeology and art history at the Sorbonne . In 1970 he obtained French citizenship. He began his career in French cinema in 1973 as a camera assistant on Philippe Labro's comedy L'Héritier , on which he worked with cameraman Jean Penzer . After his directorial debut Um aniversário (1976) on 16 mm film , Serra concentrated on camera work and was involved in the filming of Coline Serreau's tragic comedy Why not! (1977) and Claude Zidi's Louis-de-Funès comedy Der Querkopf (1978) involved as a camera pan . Here Jean-François Robin and Claude Renoir were his mentors . After working as the first assistant camera on Ariane Mnouchkine's award-winning biopic Molière, she worked in the same position with director Patrice Leconte on his successful comedy Die Strandflitzer (1978). For Leconte, with whom he would work several times in the course of his career, he was also involved a year later as a camera assistant on the sequel Sun, Sex and Snow Flurry (1979).

In the early 1980s, Eduardo Serra established himself as a cameraman in France with films such as Michel Blanc's directorial debut Two Fish on Dry Dry (1984) or Patrice Leconte's crime film The Specialists (1985). His breakthrough wasn't until 1990 with Leconte's drama The Hairdresser's Man , which is based on the director's childhood memories. The story of a boy who fulfills his dearest wish in adulthood, marriage to a sensual hairdresser, was a success with critics both in France and internationally. The New York Times praised the work for its deliberate visual style, in which Serra et al. a. based on photographs by Joel Meyerowitz and installed 400 fluorescent tubes on the film set in southern France. For his performance he was nominated for the most important French film award , the César , as best cameraman in 1991 , but was defeated by Pierre Lhomme ( Cyrano von Bergerac ) . Leconte then used Serra for his following films Tango Mortale (1993), The Perfume by Yvonne (1994), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) and Intimate Strangers (2004), with which he used his talent for light as a to use narrative element could prove. Claude Chabrol signed him for his dramas Life is a Game (1997), The Color of Lies (1999), The Flower of Evil (2002), The Bridesmaid (2004) and State Secret Affairs (2006). With films such as Vincent Ward's Escape from the Ice (1992) and Behind the Horizon (1998), Peter Chelsom's comedy Funny Bones (1995) or M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Unbreakable (2000), he was also responsible for images in international film productions. However, Serra had the greatest success with period films . After he was honored with the Silver Frog for Michael Winterbottom's drama Hearts in Turmoil at the Polish camera festival Camerimage in 1996 , he won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award) in 1998 for Iain Softley's Wings of the Dove (1997 ) and an Oscar nomination. The Henry James film with Helena Bonham Carter in the leading role went hand in hand with Serra's way of working, in which he takes on natural light and enhances or underlines it, as happened in the night scenes in which he did without the usual bluish backlight. He succeeded in building on this success in 2003 with Peter Webber's drama The Girl with the Pearl Earring . For the cinematic revival of Jan Vermeer's epoch , which he a. a. With the help of the Cinemascope process dipped into the cooler colors of his late work, in blue and ocher, he won the European Film Prize and was nominated again for the Oscar and the BAFTA Award.

In addition to working in films, Eduardo Serra also worked on television productions and on commercials for u. a. Nick Hamm , Patrice Leconte, Kevin Maloney and Harold Zwart . In 1997 he appeared in Piotr Lazarkiewicz's documentary Wiecej swiatka. Festiwal Operatorów Filmowych Camerimage '97 , while from 1996 to 1998 he was President of the Association Française des directeurs de la photographie Cinématographique (AFC), the association of French cameramen. Serra has also been an honorary member of the Associação de Imagem Cinema (AIP), the association of Portuguese cinematographers, since 1999. In 2002 he became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers for his excellent references and has since been allowed to use the abbreviation ASC in his name. At the beginning of June 2004, Serra's services were honored by the then Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio with the prestigious Portuguese Cross of Merit, the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique. Three years later, the "outstanding [...] light artist of contemporary European cinema" received the Marburg Camera Prize, the most important media science award for cinematographers in Germany.

Filmography

Camera (selection)

Director

  • 1975: To aniversário
  • 1982: Rink Hockey (Documentation)

Awards

Oscar

  • 1998: Nominated in the Best Camera category for Wings of the Dove
  • 2004: Nominated in the Best Camera category for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

British Academy Film Award

  • 1998: Best Cinematography for Wings of the Dove
  • 2004: Nominated in the Best Camera category for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

César

  • 1991: Nominated in the Best Camera category for The Hairdresser's Man

European film award

  • 2004: Best Cinematography for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Further

Australian Film Institute

  • 1993: Nominated in the Best Camera category for Escape from the Ice

British Society of Cinematographers

  • 1998: Nominated in the Best Camera category for Wings of the Dove

Camerimage

  • 1996: Silver Frog , nominated for the Golden Frog for hearts in turmoil
  • 2003: Bronze Frog , nominated for the Golden Frog for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Central Ohio Film Critics

  • 2004: Best Cinematography for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 2005: Nominated in the Best Camera category for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2004: Best Cinematography for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Marburg Camera Prize

  • 2007: Marburg Camera Prize

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2004: Nominated in the Best Camera category for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2003: Best Cinematography for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • 2003: Best Cinematography for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Satellite Awards

  • 2004: Nominated in the Best Camera category for The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Fonts

  • Eduardo Henrique Serra Brandão: Um novo direito do mar . Series of publications by the Comissão Permanente de Acção Cultural, Edições culturais da Marinha, Lisbon 1984, 134 pp.

literature

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Marburg Camera Prize goes to Eduardo Serra at op-marburg.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.op-marburg.de  
  2. ↑ cf. Film review in the New York Times on June 19, 1992
  3. ↑ cf. Nuances of light - the cameraman Eduardo Serra at 3sat.de
  4. ↑ cf. Interview excerpts from nuances of light - the cameraman Eduardo Serra at 3sat.de
  5. ↑ cf. Film review in the Frankfurter Rundschau on September 23, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Serra, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Serra, Edouard; Eduardo Henrique Serra Brandão
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese-French cameraman and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal