Thierry Arbogast
Thierry Arbogast ( born 1957 in France ) is a French cinematographer. He has in his career won several European awards and is the most common for the French César film award nominated cinematographer. His career has spanned three decades and now includes mainly French productions, but also Hollywood films.
Life
According to the company Arbogast began to be interested in the photographic image at the age of about eleven years. He began to photograph and made films in the cine film formats Super 8 and 16 mm. Early on, he decided to want to work in the film industry. About a friend in the film industry Arbogast was 17 years old then his first job as an assistant cameraman at a movie. About the initial relief and assistance activities, Arbogast worked up in the following period as a cameraman, a function which he has held regularly since 1982 in film productions.
Freelance Cameraman
The focus of his work is the collaboration with the director of the film for Arbogast. It holds the ability to engage with the ideas of the director and to assist him in the implementation, for one of the key requirements for a cameraman. Accordingly, Arbogast his film projects primarily looking off to the director and draws a personal meeting with him reading screenplays before.
Frequently Arbogast has collaborated with French director Luc Besson. The Professional and The Fifth Element - Under their joint works, among other things Besson's first feature film Nikita and Léon find. On cooperation Arbogast reported that he and Besson were higher from the start on the same wavelength, even when Besson sometimes exactly the opposite of doing what Arbogast did. During the first half of the shooting Besson was tense as a rule and change only after a while to a less powerful operating mode.
Other directors with whom Arbogast has repeatedly worked together include, among others, Jean -Paul Rappeneau, André Techiné, Eric Barbier and Mathieu Kassovitz. As a favorite actress called Arbogast Isabelle Adjani, with whom he had worked for the 2003 released movie Bon Voyage. He certifies her the ability to be able to put yourself in the right light, which he facilitated his work important.
Arbogast appreciates the cooperation of many different films and hesitates to name Favorite movies among them. As a direct models for his work Arbogast called the Italian Vittorio Storaro cameraman and the U.S. cinematographer Gordon Willis, who led the camera among other things, in many Woody Allen classics. In addition Arbogast admired the camera work of the French cameramen Bruno Nuytten, Pierre Lhomme and Ghislain Cloquet. Arbogast films according to own data from 2006 are most comfortable with a Lightway and a studio, having previously given (eg in The Crimson Rivers ) nor the Panavision preference. The choice of optics, he meets with the director, he personally preferred Cinemascope despite the design limitations associated with this choice of format.
Filmography
Awards
Arbogast got 1997 at the Film Festival in Cannes, the technology - Grand Prix for the camera work in everything from love and The Fifth Element. The following year, Arbogast received a nomination at the European Film Prize for his camera work in Black Cat, White Cat.
A total of eight times Arbogast was nominated for a César, making him the most nominated for the French national film award cameraman. Three times he was able to take home the award: 1996 The Horseman on the Roof, 1998, The Fifth Element, as well as 2004 for Bon voyage.
His work was also rewarded on a Macedonian and a Polish Film Festival, which focuses on camera work in the film.