Manuel Alberto Claro
Manuel Alberto Claro (born April 3, 1970 in Santiago de Chile , Chile ) is a Chilean - Danish cameraman .
Life
His parents fled to Denmark with Manuel Alberto Claro in 1974 after Augusto Pinochet took power in the country through a military coup. He graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan as a photographer and worked for several years as a photo assistant around the world before studying at Den Danske Filmskole in Copenhagen from 1997 to 2001 . It was there that he met the Danish director Christoffer Boe , with whom he made his debut feature film Reconstruction .
Most recently he worked for the internationally known Danish director Lars von Trier in the film Melancholia , with which Claro admitted that a “secret dream” had come true. For this work he was awarded the European Film Prize for Best Camera .
Filmography (selection)
- 2003: Bagland
- 2003: Reconstruction
- 2004: Min morfars morder
- 2005: Allegro
- 2005: Dark Horse (Voksne mennesker)
- 2006: Liv
- 2007: The lost treasure of the Knights Templar II (Tempelriddernes skat II)
- 2008: The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar III: The Secret of the Snake Crown (Tempelriddernes skat III: Mysteriet om slangekronen)
- 2008: candidates
- 2010: Alting bliver godt igen
- 2010: Limbo
- 2011: Melancholia
- 2013: Nymphomaniac
- 2013: Spies & Glistrup
- 2014: Top Five
- 2016: The Untamed (La región salvaje)
- 2018: Ditte & Louise
- 2018: The House That Jack Built
- 2019: Dau
- 2019: Håp
Awards
- 2004: Bronze Frog - Reconstruction
- 2011: Award for Limbo's Best Camera
- 2004: Nomination for the best camera by Reconstruction
- 2006: Award for the best camera from Allegro
- 2011: Nomination for the best camera by Alting bliver godt igen
- 2012: Award for the best camera from Melancholia
- 2011 : Award for the best camera from Melancholia
Web links
- Manuel Alberto Claro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Manuel Alberto Claro
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manuel Alberto Claro ( 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 todocine.cl (Spanish), accessed September 21, 2011
- ↑ Manuel Alberto Claro ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 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. at dff-dk.dk , accessed on September 21, 2011
- ↑ Lorena Cancela: The Lovers from Copenhagen: A Conversation with Manuel Alberto Claro and Tine Grew Pfeiffer on Reconstruction at sensesofcinema.com (English), accessed on September 21, 2011
- ↑ Jon Silberg: Dialogue: Manuel Alberto Claro, Cinematographer, 'Melancholia' on digitalcontentproducer.com from July 19, 2011 (English), accessed on September 21, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claro, Manuel Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean-Danish cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd April 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile , Chile |