Guillaume Schiffman
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Guillaume Schiffman (* between 1961 and 1963 ) is a French cameraman . He gained fame primarily through his longstanding collaboration with the film director Michel Hazanavicius (including OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Himself , OSS 117 - He Is Enough Of Himself , The Artist ).
Life
Childhood and beginnings as a cameraman
Guillaume Schiffman is the son of the French screenwriter and later film director Suzanne Schiffman (1929-2001; maiden name: Klochendler ) and the American painter Philip Schiffman († 1999). He grew up with a brother named Mathieu. Due to their mother's job, who worked closely with the director François Truffaut as a screenwriter, among other things , Schiffman and his brother came into contact with the film industry at an early age. Both children took on extras in the Truffaut films The Wolf Boy (1970) and Two Girls from Wales and Love for the Continent (1971) and Jacques Rivette's Out 1 - Noli me tangere (1971).
According to his own statements, Schiffman first became enthusiastic about camera work when he was shooting Truffauts Pocket Money (1976), to which his mother had taken him during the school holidays and where he met cameraman Pierre-William Glenn . Then he and his brother began to gain a foothold in the film business as a camera assistant in the early 1980s and were involved in award-winning cinema productions such as Danton by Andrzej Wajda and Volker Schlöndorff's Eine Liebe von Swann (both 1983). Through his mother, Schiffman also met the cameraman Dominique Chapuis , whom he repeatedly worked in the 1980s on films such as Tea in the Harem of Archimedes by Mehdi Charef , Claude Miller's The Cheeky Girl (both 1985), Alone with the murderer of David Saperstein , Jacques Rouffio's Die Liebe der Florence Vannier (both 1986) or Miller's Die kleine Diebin (1988) assisted. Around this time, he also made two short films of his own together with camera assistant Bruno Herbulot , whom Schiffman had met while filming André Téchiné's Rendez-Vous (1985) with Renato Berta . According to Schiffman, however, the work failed.
After ten years of experience as a camera assistant and pan operator , Schiffman began working as a responsible cameraman on film and television projects in the early 1990s. He received his first engagements from Bruno Herbulot, among others, who won him over for his first feature-length films Pas si grand que ça! (1992) and Juste avant l'orage (1994) began. Schiffman first received praise from international specialist critics in 1998 for his “captivating” pictures for Claude Miller's psychodrama Die Klassenfahrt (1998). He had already worked as a cameraman for Miller on The Smile in 1994 . Schiffman also worked repeatedly with the film and television directors Denys Granier-Deferre ( Escape to Biarritz , Chasseurs d'écume , Les enquêtes d'Éloïse Rome , The trail leads to hell ), Mathieu Simonet ( La bande du drugstore , Pact of the Druids , Le carnet rouge ), Xavier Durringer ( Chok-Dee , Lady Bar ), Géraldine Maillet ( Regarde-moi , Un certain regard ) and Audrey Estrougo ( Regarde-moi , Toi, moi, les autres ) together during 2001 with Mario Andreacchio's historical film Young Blades received an engagement for an international cinema production in France for the first time.
However, his breakthrough as a cameraman paved the way for him to work with Michel Hazanavicius , with whom he also made several commercials. The director friend hired him for his agent film parody OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Each Other , with Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in the leading roles , which was set in Egypt in the 1950s . The film was a success at the French box office and with specialist reviews, and earned Schiffman his first César nomination. He also worked with Hazanavicius and Dujardin on the successful sequel OSS 117 - He is himself enough (2009), which was set in the 1960s . The American industry service Variety praised Schiffman for his classic, "flattened widescreen format setting" , with which he immersed the plot in "a subdued blue-brown-maroon color palette" .
After the fairy-tale-like and real-life images of Joann Sfar's award-winning biopic Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women (2010), which earned him another César nomination, the climax in Schiffman's career to date was the renewed collaboration with Michel Hazanavicius his silent film homage The Artist (2011). The story of an American silent film star (played by Jean Dujardin), who failed to make the transition to sound film in the 1920s, was shown in the silent film format 1.33: 1 in black and white pictures with subtitles and almost no spoken words in 35 days Shot on original locations in Hollywood . Schiffman, who sees himself as a "futuristic" cameraman and usually works instinctively, had seen around 40 silent films in preparation. When shooting The Artist , he relies on grainier 500 ASA color film and modern cameras. He increased the gloss with additional filters, through which the white tones could be distributed more and the black could get more power. Special optics with lenses without anti-reflective layers and much stronger headlights from the 1950s and 1960s were also used during the shooting. “It was almost impossible to notice the picture. That was very helpful to me […] ” , says Schiffman. “I learned to be a cameraman who is totally at the service of history and should bring his technique, his originality, his talent in the way it serves the story. The only thing I really care about is telling stories. ” The elegantly photographed, “ brilliant homage to old Hollywood ” earned Schiffman the British Academy Film Award , the César and several other nominations for international film awards, including the Oscar , European Film Award as well as the American Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and Independent Spirit Award . After the success of The Artist , he worked again with Hazanavicius on the comedy Men and Women with Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche and on Régis Roinsard Populaire (both 2012).
Since February 2002 he has been a member of the Association Française des directeurs de la photographie (AFC). Parallel to his work as a cameraman, Schiffman took on small acting roles in the films The Trail leads to Hell (2003) and OSS 117 - He is enough for himself (2009).
Private life
Guillaume Schiffman lives in Paris . He was married to an assistant director in the late 1980s. The singer and actor Nemo Schiffman comes from his relationship with the French actress and screenwriter Emmanuelle Bercot .
Filmography
Cameraman (selection)
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Camera assistant
- 1981: La cassure
- 1983: Danton
- 1984: A love from Swann (Un amour de Swann)
- 1984: Viva la vie - Long live life (Viva la vie!)
- 1985: Tea in the Harem of Archimedes (Le thé au harem d'Archimède)
- 1985: Sturmhöhe (Hurle event)
- 1985: The Naughty Girl (L'effrontée)
- 1986: Alone with the killer (A Killing Affair)
- 1986: The Love of Florence Vannier (L'état de grace)
- 1988: The Little Thief (La petite voleuse)
- 1990: My mother's castle (Le château de ma mère)
actor
- 1970: The Wolf Boy (L'enfant sauvage)
- 1971: Out 1 - Noli me tangere
- 1971: Two girls from Wales and the love of the continent (Les deux Anglaises et le continent)
- 2003: The trail leads to hell ( Ambre a disparu , TV)
- 2009: OSS 117 - He is enough for himself (OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus)
Awards
- 2007: César nomination for OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Each Other
- 2011: César nomination for Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women
- 2011: Nomination for the European Film Award for The Artist
- 2011: Houston Film Critics Society Award nomination for The Artist
- 2011: Nomination for the Satellite Award for The Artist
- 2011: Nomination for the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for The Artist
- 2012: Nomination for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for The Artist
- 2012: Nomination for the American Society of Cinematographers Award for The Artist
- 2012: British Academy Film Award for The Artist
- 2012: César for The Artist
- 2012: Nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for The Artist
- 2012: Oscar nomination for The Artist
- 2013: César nomination for Populaire
Web links
- Guillaume Schiffman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Profile at afcinema.com (French)
- Interview on the César Awards 2011 on 3is.tv (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sweeney, Louise: A Dream Realized At Last . In: The Christian Science Monitor , August 2, 1989, p. 10 (Schiffman's age is stated as 27 in the article).
- ↑ Baker, Sophie; Markham, Kika: Obituary: Suzanne Schiffman . In: The Guardian , June 14, 2011, p. 24.
- ↑ Interview ( 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. on the César Awards 2011 on 3is.tv, 1:50 min ff. (French; accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ↑ Interview ( 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. on the César Awards 2011 on 3is.tv, 3:25 min ff. (French; accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ↑ Interview ( 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. on the César Awards 2011 on 3is.tv, 7:00 min. ff. (French; accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ^ Levy, Emanuel: Class Trip (La classe de neige) . In: Daily Variety , June 1, 1998, p. 15.
- ↑ Official press booklet (PDF; 4.9 MB) at festival-cannes.com, p. 19 (accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ^ Mintzer, Jordan: OSS 117: Lost in Rio . In: Variety , April 20–26. April 2009, p. 19.
- ↑ Official press release ( 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. (PDF; 9.5 MB) at gainsbourg-derfilm.de, p. 18 (accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ↑ a b Official press booklet (PDF; 4.9 MB) at festival-cannes.com, p. 49 (accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ↑ Official press booklet (PDF; 4.9 MB) at festival-cannes.com, p. 47 (accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ↑ Official press booklet (PDF; 4.9 MB) at festival-cannes.com, p. 48 ff. (Accessed on January 6, 2012).
- ↑ Ostwald, Susanne: The life looked . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 18, 2011, No. 115, p. 49.
- ↑ nouveau membre, Guillaume Schiffman par Eric Guichard at afcinema.com, February 1, 2002 (accessed December 7, 2012).
- ↑ Sweeney, Louise: A Dream Realized At Last . In: The Christian Science Monitor , August 2, 1989, p. 10.
- ↑ Maël Montarou: The Voice Kids: un enfant de star au casting. In: programe.tv. August 24, 2014, accessed December 31, 2019 (French).
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| SURNAME | Schiffman, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |