Ghislain Cloquet
Ghislain Pierre Cloquet (born April 18, 1924 in Antwerp , Flanders , Belgium , † November 2, 1981 in Montainville , Yvelines department , France ) was a Belgian cameraman .
Life
Ghislain Cloquet attended the École Louis-Lumière from 1943 to 1944 , then the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris from 1946 to 1947 and became a camera assistant in 1947. Just two years later he became chief cameraman for short documentaries. In 1955 Alain Resnais hired Cloquet and Sacha Vierny to do the camerawork for the documentary Night and Fog . He quickly built an excellent reputation and skillfully visualized the topics of fear, failure, isolation and death.
He worked with well-known directors such as Robert Bresson , Jacques Demy or in 1975 with Woody Allen on his The Last Night of Boris Gruschenko about a coward who by chance becomes a war hero.
1979 Cloquet was of Roman Polanski for the film Tess committed after the original cameraman, Geoffrey Unsworth , during the shooting had died. For this work he was awarded the Oscar for best camera and also won a British Academy Film Award and the César in the same category.
Arthur Penn's Four Friends was his last work in 1981. Cloquet passed away shortly afterwards. In his career he has been behind the camera in over 50 films.
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard)
- 1960: The panther is chased (Classe tous risques)
- 1961: The Great American (La belle Américaine)
- 1963: The will-o'-the-wisp (Le feu follet)
- 1965: Le poulet
- 1966: For example Balthasar (Au hasard Balthazar)
- 1966: The man who had his hair cut short (De man die zijn hair kort liet knippen)
- 1967: The Rochefort Girls (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)
- 1968: Benjamin - From the diary of a male virgin (Benjamin ou Les mémoires d'un puceau)
- 1969: The gentle one (Une femme douce)
- 1970: Donkey skin (Peau d'âne)
- 1970: The House of the Bories (La maison des Bories)
- 1975: The Last Night of Boris Gruschenko (Love and Death)
- 1979: Tess
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 101.
Web links
- Ghislain Cloquet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cloquet, Ghislain |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cloquet, Ghislain Pierre (full name); Cloquet, Gislain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp , Flanders, Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2nd 1981 |
| Place of death | Montainville (Yvelines) , France |