Cine Reflect Lighting System (CRLS)
Golden Palm Cannes 2009
Best European film 2009
Golden Globe 2010
Oscar nomination 2010
Deutscher Filmpreis 2010 Lola
Short Biography Christian Berger
Cinematography awards
for THE WHITE RIBBON
Los Angeles 2009 Movieline / Hamilton Behind The Camera Award
CINEMATOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Los Angeles Film Critics Awards - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2009
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2009
US National Society of Films Critics New York - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2009
Nominated by the American Society of cinematographers (ASC) for
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oscar Nomination 2010 CINEMATOGRAPHY
German film critic award BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2010
Romy 2010
Diagonale Preise 2010 AAC
Deutscher Filmpreis 2010 Lola
Cinematographer for such renowned directors as Michael Haneke, Luc Bondy, Wolfgang Glück, Stephen Gaghan, Amos Gitai. Numerous Austrian and international awards.
Cinematographer, director, producer, and
writer of numerous documentaries, made-for-TV films, and features.
His own projects (director and cinematographer) includes :
- RAFFL (1983/1984)
- HANNA MONSTER, DARLING (1988/1989)
- MAUTPLATZ / TOLLGATE (1994).
University professor at the Vienna Film Academy.
Founding member of the Lichtakademie Bartenbach, guest lecturer at various
international film schools (Bolzano, Havana, FEMIS / Paris, HFF and DFFB
Berlin, danske filmskol Copenhagen, FAAP Sao Paolo).
Christian Berger developed the new
“CINE REFLECT LIGHTING SYSTEM Berger/Bartenbach” in collaboration
with Bartenbach Lichtlabor.
In addition to creating new esthetic possibilities for the camera, this
system gives actors and directors unprecedented flexibility and freedom.
Berger employed this system for the first time to some degree in THE PIANO
TEACHER and exclusively used the CINE REFLECT LIGHTING SYSTEM Berger/Bartenbach
to shoot the films DEAD MAN’S MEMORIES, NE FAIS PAS ÇA, MEIN
MÖRDER, CACHÉ / HIDDEN, the commercial MASTERCARD, DISENGAGEMENT
and THE WHITE RIBBON.
LINKS
Interview
AFC Paris
Interview
Movieline Los Angeles
www.pani.com
www.cine-rls.com
www.lichtakademie.com
www.mdw.ac/filmakademie/
www.ddatalent.com
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