The Camerimage Film Festival, which focuses on the artwork of cinematography, will honor director Werner Herzog (“Fitzcarraldo”), alongside along with his collaborator, Peter Zeitlinger (“Losses to be Expected”), with its Cinematographer-Director Duo Award.
The accolade spotlights collaboration between helmers and their DPs, and each creators will probably be readily available to obtain the trophy at Camerimage, which can rejoice its 31st version in Torun, Poland, on Nov. 11-18.
Herzog and Zeitlinger have labored collectively since 1995’s “Death for Five Voices” and their collaboration has yielded a plethora of acclaimed initiatives, together with “Into the Abyss,” “Into the Inferno,” “Queen of the Desert” and “Salt and Fire.”
Prague-born Zeitlinger (above, left), who honed his abilities on the Vienna Conservatory, has a repertoire that extends kind artwork home cinema to documentaries to extra mainstream fare similar to James Franco’s “Future World.” Herzog (above, proper) – a multihyphenate whose credit span director, screenwriter, producer, actor and novelist – is taken into account a pioneer of New German Cinema. His movies have performed in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Sundance.
Together the staff of two have created six options and a number of joint initiatives in different genres. Their crime drama “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” starring Nicolas Cage, exemplifies their distinctive fashion. Their “Encounters on the End of the World,” a narrative about folks dwelling and dealing in Antarctica, was nominated for a finest documentary characteristic Oscar.
In the documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” Herzog and Zeitlinger take us to the Chauvet cavern in France, the place the partitions are embellished with a number of the world’s oldest figurative cave work, which utterly modified our understanding of the origins of human civilization. Made in 3D, the movie depicts the collapse all its lofty magnificence. Demonstrating prowess with cinematography know-how, the duo designed devoted adapters for his or her 3D cameras.
At Camerimage, Herzon and Zeitlinger will current an summary of their joint accomplishments, educating an viewers of enthusiastic filmmakers on the probabilities of their craft and the distinctive prospects of what may be completed by a harmonious cinematographer-director staff.
