Some films shot by our members have been selected at this years Cannes film festival. Yves Cape for “Holly Motors” by Leos Carax. ( co-credit with Caroline Champetier afc) Philippe Guilbert for “J’engage de son absence” by Sandrine Bonnaire. Jean François Hensgens for “A perdre la raison” by Joachim Lafosse....
Four friends (in their late twenties) go on a reunion weekend to the sea, to the house where they spent their teenage years. What should have been a convivial gathering deteriorates into an unavoidable personal and mutual confrontation. They understand that they must reassess their friendship and realize that their...
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in Limitless, a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unpublished writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret smart drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that...
After having worked up his way as a lighting technician, Glynn Speeckaert divided his career as a DOP on feature films and numerous international commercials. Based for some time now in the US , he has a filmography of English, German or French films. After having replaced Yorrick Le Saux...
Yves Cape studied at the INSAS film school in Brussels. After having started out as an assistant he made his debut as DOP on short films in the 90’s. His encounter with Alain Berliner on the short film Rose ( 1993) led to the signing for the photography of the...
Alain Marcoen studied at the IAD Brussels, But not being very attracted to the pressures a camera assistant has to face, he preferred to start out as a lighting technician. Getting some work on documentaries and drama, he met Jean-Claude Riga for whom he started to operate. Being from Liège...
by Louis Philippe Capelle. “Un soupçon d’innocence “ Olivier Peray is a director with whom I had shot two other tv movies a couple of years ago using super 16mm. This film was originally written as a feature film but in the end got financed as a tv movie, still...
Five years in the making, Oceans is a film that mixes documentary and fiction to bring the wonders of maritime life to the big screen. Luc Drion talks about his work on this epic undertaking.
Harragas tells the story of a group of men and women who desperately want to leave Algeria by crossing the mediterranean sea in a barge. Directed by Merzak Allouache and shot by Phillipe Guilbert.
Twelve year old Louis is living in a remote village in southern Morocco with his parents and brother. One day, his manic-depressive father confides a terrible secret to him: «Tonight I’ll kill myself». From that moment, Louis is no longer a child. Day and night, he watches over his father like a guardian angel….a fallen ange
Jean-Francois Hensgens TETE DE TURC « SCAPEGOAT » a film by Pascal Elbé shot by Jean-Francois Hensgens. At the end of 2008, I was contacted by actor/screenwriter Pascal Elbé, who was in search of a D.O.P. to assist him in his first directorial effort. It was Roschy Zem who had told...
by Frank Van Den Eeden Nanouk Leopold’s ‘Brownian Movement’ focusses on Sandra Hüller (Silver Bear 2006 for Requiem) and Dutch-Serbian Dragan Bakema as a couple facing crisis. Swiss Sabine Timoteo also has an important part, just as the buildings of architect Le Corbusier in Chandigarh (Millowner’s Association Building) and Ahmedabad (Palais...
by Glynn Speeckaert 22 may is a day in the life of Sam, a colorless, dull man who gets involved in a terrorist attack. It marks the second feature film collaboration for director Koen Mortier and Glynn Speeckaert, following their 2007 film “Ex-drummer”. The style of the film? Gus Van...
Interview with Yves Cape, AFC, SBC Shooting Patrice Chéreau’s Persécution and Claire Denis’ White Material Excerpted from La Lettre de L’AFC 191, October 2009, courtesy of AFC Eric Guichard : The latest Venice Mostra scheduled two films in competition for which you had been the DOP: Patrice Chéreau’s Persécution and...
Lucas Jodogne is shooting in Malaysia and Singapore for the flm “Twenty-four hours of Anger” directed by T T Dhavamanni . A Tamil spoken story about a Singaporean family who gets involved in drug traffcking. It is the frst feature flm he shoots on the RED camera. He has done...
by Philippe Guilbert Just a quick word to announce the release of Mères et Filles, a film by Julie Lopez-Curval for which I was the DOP. Mères et Filles is a ‘woman’s film’ starring Catherine Deneuve, Marina Hands and Marie-José Croze. After Toi et Moi (starring Julie Depardieu and Marion...
A l’Origine by Xavier Giannoli, shot by Glynn Speeckaert.Glynn Speeckaert is a graduate of the HRITS film school in Belgium. After having done military service as an electrician, he divides his career as a DOP between fiction and numerous international publicity campaigns. Speeckaert recently moved to the US. His filmography includes English, Flemish and German films, such as Secret Society by Imogen Kimmel, Ex Drummer by Koen Mortier or The Visitation by Robby Henson. Xavier Giannoli invited him to join him on the production of A l’origine to replace Yorrick Le Saux, who was unavailable at the time.
Five weeks ago, I returned from Kazakhstan, where I shot a film with Thierry Demey on a choreography by Anne-Theresa de Keersmaker.
by yves cape From lettre de l’AFC 192 november 2009 Hadewijch a film by Bruno Dumont; shot by Yves Cape With Julie Sokolowski, David Dewaele, Yassine Salim Release November 25, 2009 Shocked by novice sister Hadewych’s ecstatic and blind faith, the Mother Superior shows her the convent door. Hadewych...
Marijke en Luc op een set in Singapore. Lucas is DoP en draait de film ” The Maid” . Marijke heeft aan de eerste periode meegewerkt als operator (cadreur) van 10 okt t/m 28 okt 2004. Ze draaien op 35 mm film, Vision-2 van Kodak met een BL3 kamera en...
Après avoir sélectionné 14 films parmi 252 oeuvres en provenance du monde entier, le Jury International présidé par Don Mac Alpine et Affonso Beato accorde le prix “Bronze Frog”à Louis-Philippe Capelle sbc pour sa photographie de “Nuit Noire” d’Olivier Smolders.”We tried to judge the integration between cinematographer and the story...