Matthias Bolliger

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Matthias Bolliger (2017)

Matthias Bolliger (* 1975 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss - German cameraman / director of photography (DoP), film lecturer / coach and specialist author based in Hamburg and Lucerne. He is known u. a. also under his stage name "le bolligé".

Career

From 1994 to 1997, Bolliger headed the “Innerschweizer Filmtage” and was involved in the founding of Arcanusfilm AG, later Arcmedia AG Lucerne. After studying film in the field of "camera / image direction" in Zurich, Berlin and Hamburg, he works as a freelance cameraman for scenic productions and in image / advertising film.

In 2007 he directed Chiko with director Özgür Yıldırım and Fatih Akıns production company Corazón International . Chiko was nominated for the German Camera Prize in 2008 and received two German Film Awards the following year . In 2011 Matthias Bolliger realized the hip-hop music film Blutzbrüdaz as DoP with rapper Sido in the lead role. Blutzbrüdaz started nationwide in cinemas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the end of 2011 and reached over half a million viewers. In the summer of 2012, Matthias Bolliger shot the first episode of the new NDR- Tatort with Wotan Wilke Möhring , whose case Feuerteufel reached ten million viewers when it was first broadcast in April 2013. In 2012/13 he shot a stereoscopic long-term documentary for ZDF / Arte about the German astronaut Alexander Gerst and his upcoming space mission on the International Space Station ISS in 2014 and was one of the DoPs in the music festival cinema documentary "Wacken 3D".

In 2014 he was responsible for the image design of the bestseller film adaptation “Boy7” by the Dutch author Mirjam Mous with David Kross and Emilia Schüle in the leading roles. In spring 2015 he realized another North Tatort with Wotan Wilke Möhring and his new investigation partner Franziska Weisz and then shot the episode of Tatort Freiburg with Heike Makatsch aka Commissioner Ellen Berlinger with director Katrin Gebbe .

In 2016 he started filming “16 levers des soleil”, a long-term documentary about the French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet - this was shot as a multi-format project for TV / cinema, full dome / planetarium and VR / 360. In autumn he shot Özgür Yıldırım's new feature film “Only God Can Judge Me” with Moritz Bleibtreu , Edin Hasanović and Birgit Minichmayr in the leading roles. In 2017, the shooting of the third North Tatort began with Wotan Wilke Möhring and in 2018/19 he shot the second and final third season of the successful Mafia drama series 4 Blocks with Kida Khodr Ramadan in the lead role.

Matthias Bolliger teaches at the Hamburg Media School (HMS), the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and the International Film School Cologne (IFS) and writes as a specialist author for the magazine Film & TV Kameramann . He is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

Short films

  • Life Has No Undo (2000), directed by Matthias Bolliger
  • Join the real life (2001), directed by Matthias Bolliger
  • The necessary cutting edge (2002), directed by Özgür Yıldırım
  • Ascension Day (2003), directed by Ulrike Grote
  • Alim Market (2004), directed by Özgür Yıldırım

Awards

  • 1999 3rd prize at the 23rd Youth Film and Video Days 1999 in Zurich for “Die Seilschaft von der Schwandi” (1998)
  • 2000 Silver Award at the Tokyo Video Festival, Victor 2000 for "Die Seilschaft von der Schwandi" (1998)
  • 2001 nomination for the German Camera Prize , category "short film" for "Life Has No Undo" (2000)
  • 2003 1st prize, Internat. Competition Unimovie 2004, Pescara (I) for "Ascension" (2003)
  • 2003 Nomination FFA "Short Tiger 2003", Internationales Filmfest München for "Join the real life" (2002)
  • 2003 nomination for student film competition “Camerimage Filmfestival 2004”, Lodz (PL) for “Ascension” (2003)
  • 2004 2nd Prize, Category “Narrative Cinema”, Athens Int. Film Festival 2005 (USA) for "Alim Market"
  • 2004 Main Prize of the 45th Internat. Festival "Brno Sixteen" for "Alim Market" (2004)
  • 2004 PRO 7 Young Talent Award, Internat. Film festival of the film schools for "Ascension" (2003)
  • 2005 PSP Film und 50 - Filmfestival Hamburg: "Audience Award" for "Bit Schwund is' immer" (2005)
  • 2008 nomination for the German Camera Prize, category "feature film" for "Chiko" (2008)
  • 2009 Die Klappe 2010: 2 × bronze corporate film, Internet / Spotlight advertising film festival 2010: Silver expert jury award / ADC 2010: 2 × silver, 1 × bronze, award in the category Casting / Annual Multimedia Award / DMMA-Online Star : Silver for “15 Years of Kolle Rebbe "(2009)
  • 2009 Corporate Media 2009: Award of Master for "The birth of a Remos-Aircraft"
  • 2010 ITVA Award stereoscopy for Deutsche Telekom "Tele Presence"
  • 2013 3D Korea International Film Festival: "Special Prize"
  • 2013 Aérospatial des etoiles et des aires festival: "Grand Prix de la Jury"

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personal data
SURNAME Bolliger, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne