Emmanuel Machuel
Emmanuel Machuel (born June 12, 1934 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French cameraman specializing in contemplative, reflective films with calm, documentary-like shots.
Live and act
Machuel had received his technical training at the École Louis-Lumière between 1952 and 1954 and then attended (1954/55) the state film school IDHEC . He gained his practical experience from 1959 - debut as one of three French camera assistants Jacques Letellier with Helmut Käutner in the film Die Gans von Sedan set in France during the war year 1870 - as an assistant to renowned cinematographers such as Maurice Fellous , Marcel Grignon , Ghislain Cloquet , Nestor Almendros and Claude Lecomte.
Almost at the same time, until the early 1970s, Machuel also worked as a simple cameraman for Cloquet, Almendros and Alain Levent (e.g. in the films La longue marche, L'écume des jours, An evening, a train , Peau d'âne, La cavale, La vallée, A charming crook and Les Gaspards ). The actor Gérard Blain , who has also worked as a director since 1970 , gave Machuel the first opportunity to work as head cameraman in 1975.
Machuel was able to demonstrate his merits as a precise observer of human behavior at his debut A child in the crowd , a cautious image of time and at the same time a portrait of an adolescent in his maturity under the most difficult of circumstances. Machuel also stood behind the camera in Blain's three follow-up productions. In the period that followed, he was repeatedly brought to Switzerland and Portugal for sometimes bulky outsider productions far from the mainstream entertainment.
His calm, accurate imagery devoid of any hustle and bustle and glamor also underlined the staging style of other intellectual directors (e.g. Robert Bresson ) who preferred a subtle, subtle staging style - above all the Portuguese veteran director Manoel de Oliveira , for whom Machuel worked several times. In Marceline Loridans behutsamem, silent portrait of a former concentration camp inmate in search of clues, Birkenau and Rosenfeld , they allowed the film crew, in the camp of Auschwitz to turn the first time a feature film.
Awards
In 1992 Machuel received the César for the best camera work with Maurice Pialat's artist portrait Van Gogh . For his camera work in Pedro Costa's film Ossos , he received the 1997 Camera Prize at the Venice Film Festival .
Filmography (as head cameraman)
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- ↑ The biograf. The information is based on information from the Kay Less film archive , which in turn is based on research by Weniger in Paris and conversations with Machuel and the French cameraman and specialist writer Marc Salomon (" Sculpteurs de lumières - Les directeurs de la photographie ")
Web links
- Emmanuel Machuel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Machuel, Emmanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine |