Guillaume Schiffman
Guillaume Schiffman (* 1961-1963 ) is a French cinematographer. He achieved fame primarily for his long association with the film director Michel Hazanavicius (including OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved to OSS 117 - He himself is enough, The Artist).
- 2.1 cameraman (selection)
- 2.2 Camera Wizard
- 2.3 Actors
Life
Childhood and beginnings as a cameraman
Guillaume Schiffman is the son of the French screenwriter and film director Suzanne Schiffman later (1929-2001; Birth name: Klochendler ) and the American painter Philip Schiffman († 1999). He grew up together with a brother named Mathieu. Due to the occupation of the mother, who closely worked as a screenwriter with the director François Truffaut, Schiffman and his brother arrived early with the film industry in contact. Both children jointly acquired extras roles in the films Truffaut The Wild Child (1970) and Two Girls from Wales and the love to the continent (1971 ) and Jacques Rivette's Out 1 - Noli me tangere (1971).
For the first time for the camera work, Schiffman inspired by his own admission in the filming of Truffaut's Pocket Money (1976 ), which had his mother taken in the school holidays and where he met the cinematographer Pierre- William Glenn. He then began to take together as a camera assistant in the movie business walking with his brother to the early 1980s and was, among others, award-winning theater productions such as Danton by Andrzej Wajda and Volker Schlöndorff's A Love of Swann (both 1983) involved. Through his mother Schiffman also learned the cameraman Dominique Chapuis know, he in the 1980s repeated on films such as tea in the Harem of Archimedes by Mehdi Charef, Claude Miller's The cheeky girls (both 1985), Alone with the murder of David Saperstein, Jacques Rouffios Love the Florence Vannier (both 1986) and Miller's the Little thief (1988 ) assisted. About this time also two of his own short film works were created together with the camera assistant Bruno Herbulot, the Schiffman on the set of André Téchiné's Rendez -Vous (1985 ) had met with Renato Berta. The work fell through, according to Schiffman, however.
After ten years of experience as a camera assistant and swivel Schiffman began in the early 1990s to work as a cinematographer in film and television projects. He received first engagements of Bruno Herbulot, the him for his first feature film work Pas si grand que ça! (1992 ) Juste avant l' orage and (1994 ) began. Praise from the international critics Schiffman was the first time in 1998 for its " captivating " photo of Claude Miller's psychodrama The school trip (1998) bestowed. For Miller, he had worked in 1994 at the smile as a cameraman. Repeats Schiffman also worked with the film and television directors Denys Granier - Deferre ( flight 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, while in 2001 with Mario Andreacchios history movie Young Blades for the first time a commitment to an international film production in France received.
Michel Hazanavicius cooperation with
However, the breakthrough as a cameraman smoothed his collaboration with Michel Hazanavicius, with whom he made some commercials. His friend director hired him for his based in Egypt of the 1950s spy movie spoof OSS 117 - The spy who loved with Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in the lead roles. The film was destined success at the French box office and with the critics and brought Schiffman his first César Award nomination. With Hazanavicius and Dujardin he also worked on the gambling in the 1960s successful sequel OSS 117 - He himself is enough ( 2009) together. The American industry publication Variety praised Schiffman for his classic, " flattened widescreen setting " with which he " a muted blue - brown - maroon color palette " dip the action in.
After the fairy tale and real -mixing images to Joann Sfars award-winning biopic Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women (2010), which earned him another César nomination, the highlight so far presented in ship Mans career by another collaboration with Michel Hazanavicius the silent film tribute the Artist (2011) a. The story of an American silent film star (played by Jean Dujardin ), which in the 1920s, the transition to talkies do not succeed, was to the silent film 1.33:1 in black and white pictures with intertitles and virtually no spoken words in 35 days original scenes filmed in Hollywood. Schiffman, who sees himself as a " futuristic " cameraman and normally works instinctively saw in preparation about 40 silent films. During the filming of The Artist he trusts in grainy 500 ASA color film and modern cameras. He strengthened the shine with additional filters, spread by the whites and the more black could get more power. Also during the filming of special optics were used with lenses without anti-reflective layers and much stronger headlights from the 1950s and 1960s. "The picture could almost not be noticed. That seemed very accommodating [ ... ], "says Schiffman. "I've learned as a cameraman, he's totally in the service of the story and his technique, his originality, his talent should bring in the way it serves the story. The only thing that really interests me stories to tell. " Elegantly photographed, " brilliant homage to old Hollywood " Schiffman brought the British Academy Film Award, the César and several other nominations for international film prizes, including the Oscar, European film Award and the U.S. broadcast Film Critics Association Award and Independent Spirit Award. After the success of The Artist, he worked again with Hazanavicius on the comedy Les Infidèles with Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche and to Régis Roinsard Populaire (both 2012).
Guillaume Schiffman lives in Paris. He was married in the late 1980s with an assistant director. 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 took Schiffman small acting roles in the films The trail leads to Hell (2003) and OSS 117 - He himself is enough ( 2009).
Filmography
Cameraman (selection)
- 2002: Pact of the Druids ( brocéliande )
- 2003: Quelqu'un vous aime ... (Short Film )
- 2003: The trail leads to hell ( Ambre a disparu, TV)
- 2004: de l' enfer Anatomy
- 2004: Le grand rôle
- 2004: Le carnet rouge
- 2005: Chok Dee - fighting for your dream ( Chok -Dee )
- 2006: OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved itself (OSS 117: Le Caire nid d' espions )
- 2006: Les ambitieux
- 2007: Regarde -moi
- 2007: Lady Bar (TV)
- 2007: Un Certain Regard (Short Film )
- 2008: Un coeur simple
- 2009: Une dernière cigarette (Short Film )
- 2009: OSS 117 - He himself is enough (OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus)
- 2010: Gainsbourg - The man who loved women ( Gainsbourg ( Vie héroïque ) )
- 2010: L' avocat
- 2010: Toi, moi, les autres
- 2011: Chez Gino
- 2011: The Artist
- 2012: Les Infidèles
- 2013: Madame is recommended (Elle s'en va)
Assistant camera
Actor
Awards
- 2007: César Award nomination for OSS 117 - The spy who loved each
- 2011: César Award nomination for Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women
- 2011: Nomination for the European Film Award for The Artist
- 2011: Nominated for the Houston Film Critics Society Award for The Artist
- 2011: Nominated for the Satellite Award for The Artist
- 2011: Nominated for the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for The Artist
- 2012: nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for The Artist
- 2012: Nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award for The Artist
- 2012: British Academy Film Award for The Artist
- 2012: Cesar for The Artist
- 2012: nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for The Artist
- 2012: Academy Award nomination for The Artist
- 2013: César Award nomination for Populaire