Manuel Alberto Claro

Manuel Alberto Claro ( born April 3, 1970 in Santiago de Chile, Chile ) is a Chilean- Danish cinematographer.

Life

His parents fled Manuel Alberto Claro 1974 to Denmark after Augusto Pinochet had assumed power in a military coup in the country. He graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan as a photographer and worked for several years worldwide as a photo assistant, before he studied from 1997 to 2001 at the Den Danske Filmskole in Copenhagen. Where he met the Danish director Christoffer Boe, with whom he jointly turned his feature film debut Reconstruction.

Most recently, he worked for the internationally renowned Danish director Lars von Trier film Melancholia in, so Claro admitted that this is a " secret dream " was fulfilled. For this work he was awarded the European Film Award for Best Cinematography.

Filmography (selection)

• 2003: Bagland
• 2003: Reconstruction
• 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 Mystery of the Snake Crown ( Tempelriddernes skat III: Mysteriet om slangekronen )
• 2008: candidates
• 2010: owned Alting bliver godt
• 2010: Limbo
• 2011: Melancholia
• 2013: Nymphomaniac
• 2013: Spies & Glistrup

Awards

• 2004: Bronze Frog - Reconstruction

• 2004: nominated for Best Cinematography of Reconstruction
• 2006: Award for Best Cinematography by Allegro
• Strength nomination for Best Cinematography Alting bliver godt: 2011
• 2012: Award for Best Cinematography of Melancholia

• 2011: Award for Best Cinematography of Melancholia