Peter Indergand
Peter Indergand (born February 26, 1957 in Crest , France ) is a Swiss cameraman .
Life
After leaving school with baccalaureate studied Indergand six semesters of art history and English literature at the University of Zurich . He then attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and completed his training in 1982 in the camera department.
In the period from 1977 to 1981, several films were made that were made by a group of film-loving friends and in which Peter Indergand gained his first experience as a cameraman: Fiori d'autunno , Onore e riposo and L'alba .
In 1984 he founded the film production company Peacock together with Rolando Colla . Both later made films such as Le monde à l'envers , Oltre il confine , the television feature Operazione Stradivari and the short films Einspruch II and III . Indergand left Peacock in 1989 and has been working as a freelance cameraman ever since.
As a result, Indergand shot numerous feature and documentary films in various countries. War Photographer , a documentary about the photographer James Nachtwey , which was nominated for an Oscar in 2002 and an Emmy nomination for Indergand in 2004 , received strong international attention .
The collaboration with Christian Frei , the director of War Photographer , was successfully continued with the documentaries The Giant Buddhas , Space Tourists , Sleepless in New York and Genesis 2.0 .
In addition, Peter Indergand worked with directors such as Markus Imboden , Miguel Alexandre , René Heisig , Marcel Gisler , Christoph Schaub , Julian Benedikt , Dieter Gränicher and Markus Imhoof .
Peter Indergand has received numerous awards for his work as a cameraman, such as the Gold Panda Award at the Sichuan TV Festival, the award for Best Photography at the Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, the Swiss Film Prize and the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival .
Peter Indergand has been teaching at the Graubünden University of Applied Sciences since 2011 .
Over the years several films were made that Peter Indergand made himself:
- Walking through a field of Chickens (1982), documentary about everyday life and music by the band members of 45GRAVE and their friends in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.
- Game over (1993), short film
- On the way to new shores (1998), film portrait of the French artist Charles Lapicque
Films as a cameraman (selection)
- 1995: The Mist Runner (feature film)
- 1995: Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel (documentary)
- 1996: Irrlichter (fictional film)
- 1997: The Scent of Money (documentary)
- 1997: Le monde à l'envers (feature film)
- 1998: Tracks in the Ice (Adrenalin Junkies) (Feature Film)
- 1999: The Foreign Girl (feature film)
- 1999: Gran Paradiso (feature film)
- 2000: Heidi (feature film)
- 2001: Steel Net - The Glass Paradise (feature film)
- 2001: War Photographer (documentary)
- 2001: Oltre il confine (feature film)
- 2002: Dario M. (feature film)
- 2002: The Secret of Life (feature film)
- 2002: Ni Olvido ni perdòn (documentary film)
- 2003: Operazione Stradivari (feature film)
- 2003: Sternenberg (feature film)
- 2004: The man next door lives! (Motion pictures)
- 2004: Greetings from Kashmir (feature film)
- 2005: The Thief and the General (TV movie)
- 2005: In the Valley of the Great Buddhas ( The Giant Buddhas ) (Documentary)
- 2005: Störtebeker (feature film)
- 2006: Little Fish (feature film)
- 2006: Side Effects (feature film)
- 2006: Play your own thing (documentary)
- 2007: L'autre moitié (feature film)
- 2007: Stolberg (feature film; 2 episodes)
- 2008: Day and Night (TV series; episodes 13-18)
- 2008: A Strong Team - La Paloma (TV Series)
- 2009: A strong team - wrong game
- 2009: A strong team - the big eat
- 2009: Space Tourists (documentary)
- 2009: Live Longer (feature film)
- 2009: Changes (documentary)
- 2011: Forbidden Voices (documentary)
- 2012: Stolberg - Heaven and Hell (TV feature film)
- 2012: Stolberg - The Frankenberg Protocols (TV feature film)
- 2013: Journey to the safest place on earth (documentary)
- 2013: Sleepless in New York (documentary)
- 2014: Stöffitown (feature film)
- 2015: Wild Women - Gentle Beasts (documentary)
- 2014: Electroboy (documentary)
- 2015: Tested love (documentary)
- 2016: Julian and Marius (documentary)
- 2017: The Struggle (Documentary)
- 2017: Life in retirement (documentary)
- 2018: Genesis 2.0 (documentary)
- 2018: In the wake of fear (documentary)
- 2018: Eldorado (documentary)
Awards (selection)
| title | Awards |
|---|---|
| The fog runner | Max Ophüls Prize “Best Film”, 1996 |
| European Art-et-Essay Cinemas Prize | |
| Prize of the Youth Jury at the Locarno Film Festival , 1996 | |
| Gran Paradiso | Prize of the Guild of German Film Art Theaters |
| German Film Award 2001 (award for the best supporting role ; nomination as best fiction film ) | |
| Was a photographer | Emmy nomination Peter Indergand “Best Cinematography”, 2004 |
| Oscar nomination for “ Best Documentary ”, 2002 | |
| Gold Panda Award - 7th Sichuan TV Festival, China | |
| Panda Awards - nomination for best camera: Peter Indergand | |
| Peabody Award , 2004 | |
| Adolf Grimme Prize 2003 | |
| Main prize at the Viewpoint Festival, Gent, 2002 | |
| "Best Film" at the 4th Int. Documentary film festival “ Docaviv ”, Tel Aviv | |
| The Grierson Awards 2002, short list | |
| Phoenix Prize 2002 at the 12th Cologne International Television Festival ( Cologne Conference ) | |
| South African International Documentary Festival, Cape Town (Audience Award) | |
| Osaka City Special Prize | |
| Durban International Film Festival (Best Documentary) | |
| Eurodok Award 2003 | |
| 2003 SwissAm Award, New York (Audience Award) | |
| dokufest Prizren 2003 (Best Documentary) | |
| Oltre il Confine | Max Ophüls Prize 2003: Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister |
| Swiss Film Award 2003 (nomination for best feature film) | |
| Prix Cinefemme, Mons 2003 | |
| Prix Cinéma Art & Essai CICAE, Mons 2003 | |
| Star Mountain | 10th Festival Cinéma Tout Ecran in Geneva, 2004 (audience award) |
| Swiss Film Award 2005 (nomination for best feature film) | |
| Greetings from Kashmir | Grimme Prize 2005 |
| The Giant Buddhas | Silver Dove, 48th Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival 2005 |
| Nomination for the Swiss Film Prize 2006 | |
| art-tv award "Swiss cultural pearl" | |
| Main prize "Dokufest" Film Festival Prizren | |
| Tahoe / Reno International Film Festival, best documentary | |
| Gold Panda Award for Best Camera, Sichuan TV Festival 2007 | |
| Space Tourists | World Cinema Directing Award, Sundance 2010 |
| Best Photography, Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, 2010 | |
| Eurodok Award 2010, European Documentary Film Festival Oslo | |
| Special Jury Award EIDF Korea 2010 | |
| GRAND PRIX GRAZ Mountain & Adventure Film Festival Graz | |
| Nomination for the Swiss Film Prize QUARTZ 2010 | |
| ELDORADO | Swiss Film Award 2019 - Best Cinematography |
| Zurich Film Prize | |
| Bavarian film award | |
| Genesis 2.0 | Special Jury Award for Cinematography, Sundance Film Festival 2018 |
| Zurich Film Prize | |
| Winner Seoul Eco Film Festival, Best Feature Film | |
| Lunenburg Doc Fest, Feature Documentary Award | |
| Audience Award Moscow International Film Festival | |
| Winner Green Film Network, Best Documentary | |
| Winner Cinemambiente 2018, Best Documentary | |
| Golden Raven Arctic Film Festival Chukotka | |
| Winner Naked Truth Award, Budapest International Documentary Festival |
Web links
- Homepage Peter Indergand
- Peter Indergand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- DasErste.de : Störtebeker ( Memento from April 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Indergand, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crest , France |