Two films shot by SBC members were awarded at Un certain Regard 2017 : – Barbara by Mathieu Amalric, cinematographied by Christophe Beaucarne, SBC/AFC, won the Best Poetic Narrative Prize Read the interview – Las hijas de Abril by Michel Franco, cinematographied by Yves Cape, SBC/AFC won the Jury Prize Read the interview
The wounded Angel by Emir Baigazin, shot by Yves Capes, AFC, SBC. With Omar Adilov, Timur Aidarbekov Release date : May 11th, 2016 In the early hours of the Kazakhstan independence, four moral tales, four teenagers who will burn their wings to survive in a place still marked by a...
Yves Cape, AFC, SBC, became known as a cinematographer by filming Humanité, directed by Bruno Dumont. He then continued to work with the director all the way through Outside Satan. He has also worked with Claire Denis, Martin Provost, Cédric Khan, Guillaume Nicloux, and designed the lighting on Patrice Chéreau’s...
Vie Sauvage was filmed over a 9-week period by Yves Cape, between the summer of 2013 and the winter of 2014, mostly between Carcassonne and the Cevennes. The film was entirely shot using two shoulder cameras and all-natural lighting.
a film by Martin Provost, photographed by Yves Cape. Violette Leduc, a bastard daughter born in the beginning of the last century, met Simone de Beauvoir in the postwar period in St-Germain-des-Prés. Between the two women blooms an intense relationship that will last throughout their lives. It is a relationship...
by Yves Cape. We follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy...
by Yves Cape. Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a...
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...
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...
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...