William Lubtchansky

William Lubtchansky ( born October 26, 1937 in Paris, † May 4, 2010 ) was a French cameraman, a specialist in sensitive portraits of women and unspectacular outsider substances.

Life

Lubtchansky had his photographic studies in 1959 graduated from the École Louis Lumière and in the following years as assistant cameramen Willy Kurant ( Masculin - Feminin or: The Children of Marx and Coca -Cola, The Creatures ) worked and Andréas Winding ( His prisoners ).

Since 1968, he served as director of photography, active, especially directors of auteur cinema - above all: Jacques Rivette - committed the vaunted for its sober image rigor cameraman, who would prove to be ambitious photographer with a keen sense of artistic balanced spatial layouts. Both at painfully static -looking, action- poor films ( eg The beautiful Noiseuse ), whose power is only fed by a look, a word or a volatile movement of the protagonist, as well as large-scale historical dramas (eg Joan the Maid ), in which an internalized, contemplative form the narrative structure determined instead of falling into a set of outer show values ​​plot presentation, Lubtchanskys proved a feel for the protagonists inherent constraints, tension and emotion to images and thus make it visible to the viewer.

William Lubtchansky worked with Rivette, with other important directors of the French art film together, including Jean -Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Berri. In the 1970s, he also made ​​a name for himself with his pioneering work in the video.

In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

For his camera work in Phillipe Garrell film Les Amants réguliers Lubtchansky 2005 received the Osella for Best Technical Contribution at the Film Festival in Venice.