IEC
EDUARDO SERRA AFC/ASC
Born: 2 October 1943, Lisbon, Portugal.
Education: Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon [1960-63]; Lycée Technique d'État de Photographie et de Cinématographie ['l'École de Vaugirard'] [now École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière], Paris [1964-66]; University of Paris [Sorbonne] [Art History & Archaeology].
Career: Ph commercials dir by Kevin Maloney, Nick Hamm, Patrice Leconte, Harold Zwart, a.o.
Was president of the AFC [1996-98]. Honorary member of the AIP since 1999. Member of the ASC since 2002.
Appeared in the doc 'Wiecej swiatla. Festiwal Operatorów Filmowych Camerimage '97' [1997, Piotr Lazarkiewicz; ph: Adam Sikora; 54m].
Awards: 'César' Award nom [1991] for 'Le mari de la coiffeuse'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1993] for 'Map of the Human Heart'; Camerimage 'Silver Frog' Award [1996] for 'Jude'; BSFC Award Runner up [1997], BAFTA Film Award [1998], 'Oscar' AA nom [1998] & BSC Award nom [1998] for 'The Wings of the Dove'; Camerimage 'Bronze Frog' [2003], LAFCA Award [2003], San Sebastián IFF 'Best Cinematography' Award [2003], European Film Award [2004], 'Oscar' AA nom [2003] & BAFTA Film Award nom [2004] for 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'; Ordem do Infante D. Henrique [2004]; ABC Career Award [2005]; Marburger Kamerapreis [2007]; ASC International Achievement Award [2013].
| FILMS | |
|---|---|
|
1975 |
Um aniversário/Un anniversaire [Eduardo Serra] 16mm/c; doc/23m |
|
1976 |
Les derniers beaux jours [Jean-Yves Rondière] ?; short/14m |
|
1976 |
La victoire en chantant/Noirs et blancs en couleur/Black and White in Color [Jean-Jacques Annaud] c; cph: Claude Agostini & Nanamoudou Magassouda |
|
1977 |
Romance [Yves Thomas] c; short/17m |
|
1978 |
À vendre [Christian Drillaud] c |
|
1980 |
Une voix [Dominique Crèvecoeur] 16mm/c; short/29m |
|
1981 |
Itinéraire bis/Side Roads [Christian Drillaud] c |
|
1982 |
Sem sombra de pecado/No Trace of Sin [José Fonseca e Costa] c |
|
1982 |
Une histoire dérisoire [Michel Campioli] 16mm/c; short/27m |
|
1982 |
Rink-Hockey [Eduardo Serra] ?; doc/?m |
|
1983 |
Contes clandestins [Dominique Crèvecoeur] c; cph: Dominique Chapuis & Gérard Sterin |
|
1983 |
Debout les crabes, la mer monte! [Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan] c |
|
1983 |
Le garde du corps [François Leterrier] p/c; cph: Jean-Paul Meurisse |
|
1983 |
Nasdine Hodja au pays du business [Jean-Patrick Lebel] v/c; doc/117m; cph: Dominique Chapuis |
|
1983 |
Des terroristes à la retraite [Mosco Boucault] s16/b&w-c; doc/84m; cph: Jean Orjollet, Philippe Rousselot, Carlo Varini, François Catonné, a.o.; originally planned as a tv-doc (1985) |
|
1984 |
Pinot simple flic [Gérard Jugnot] c |
|
1984 |
Les spécialistes [Patrice Leconte] p/c |
|
1984 |
Marche à l'ombre [Michel Blanc] scope/c |
|
1984 |
Tranches de vie/Slices of Life [François Leterrier] scope/c |
|
1985 |
Duty Free Shop [Michel Campioli] c; short/17m |
|
1985 |
Le mariage du siècle/Marriage of the Century [Philippe Galland] p/c; cph: Gérard Sterin |
|
1985 |
Peinture fraîche - Made in France/Frisch gestrichen - Made in France [Heinz-Peter Schwerfel] 16mm/c; doc/44m & 53m |
|
1985 |
Moi vouloir toi [Patrick Dewolf] c |
|
1986 |
I grandi manoveri/Stillleben auf italienisch [Heinz-Peter Schwerfel] 16mm/c; doc/45m & 52m |
|
1986 |
Tropical Snow/Nieve tropical [Ciro Durán] c |
|
1987 |
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes [Didier Kaminka] c |
|
1987 |
O judeu/António José da Silva, o judeu/The Jew [Jom Tob Azulay] c; prod between 1987-95 |
|
1988 |
Le rebond [Naciba Sator] c; short/9m |
|
1988 |
A mulher do próximo/Your Neighbor's Wife [José Fonseca e Costa] c |
|
1988 |
O processo do rei/The King's Trial [João Mário Grilo] c |
|
1989 |
Artcore [oder Der Neger] [Heinz-Peter Schwerfel] 16mm/c; doc/87m |
|
1990 |
Le mari de la coiffeuse/The Hairdresser's Husband [Patrice Leconte] p/c |
|
1990 |
Lapse of Memory/Mémoire traquée [Patrick Dewolf] c |
|
1990 |
Amor e dedinhos de pé/Macao, mépris et passion/Love and Tiny Toes [Luís Filipe Rocha] c |
|
1991 |
Map of the Human Heart [Vincent Ward] p/c; 2uc: Sylvain Brault & Alun Bollinger; aph: Peter Allwork; model ph: Dennis Lowe & Alex Amyot |
|
1991 |
Le zèbre/The Oddball [Jean Poiret] p/c |
|
1992 |
Die Inschrift des Gottes/L'écriture du dieu [Heinz Peter Schwerfel] c; short/25m |
|
1992 |
Tango [Patrice Leconte] p/c; aph: Charlet Recors |
|
1993 |
Grosse fatigue/Dead Tired [Michel Blanc] c |
|
1993 |
Le parfum d'Yvonne [Patrice Leconte] p/c |
|
1994 |
Funny Bones [Peter Chelsom] b&w-c; uwph: Michael Valentine |
|
1994 |
L'amour conjugal [Benoît Barbier] c |
|
1994 |
Les grands ducs [Patrice Leconte] cs/c |
|
1995 |
The Disappearance of Finbar [Sue Clayton] c; 2uc: Arthur Wooster |
|
1995 |
Jude [Michael Winterbottom] p/b&w-c; 2uc: Andrew Speller, Seamus McGarvey & Daf Hobson |
|
1996 |
Rien ne va plus/The Swindle [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
1996 |
The Wings of the Dove [Iain Softley] s35/c |
|
1997 |
What Dreams May Come [Vincent Ward] s35/c; 2uc: Richard Michalak; addph: Kim Marks; Angel Falls unit: Josh Bleibtreu; uwph: Rexford Metz |
|
1998 |
The Lost Son [Chris Menges] c; uncred cph; ph: Barry Ackroyd |
|
1998 |
Au coeur du mensonge/The Color of Lies [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
1998 |
Passion of Mind/D'un rêve à l'autre [Alain Berliner] p/c; aph: Charlet Recors |
|
1999 |
La veuve de Saint-Pierre/The Widow of Saint-Pierre [Patrice Leconte] p/c |
|
2000 |
O delfim [Fernando Lopes] c |
|
2000 |
Unbreakable [M. Night Shyamalan] p/c; 2uc: Steven Poster |
|
2000 |
Papillons de nuit/Danny and the Deep Blue Sea [John Pepper] c |
|
2001 |
Rue des plaisirs/Love Street [Patrice Leconte] c |
|
2001 |
The Ground Beneath Her Feet/La terre sous les pieds [Raoul Ruíz] c |
|
2002 |
La fleur du mal/The Flower of Evil [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
2002 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring [Peter Webber] s35/c |
|
2003 |
La marque jaune/The Yellow M [James Huth] project; status unknown |
|
2003 |
Confidences trop intimes/Intimate Strangers [Patrice Leconte] c |
|
2003 |
Beyond the Sea [Kevin Spacey] s35/b&w-c; c.op 'b' cam: Sonja Rom; add c.op: Birgit Gudjonsdottir; filmed 2003-04 |
|
2004 |
La demoiselle d'honneur/The Bridesmaid [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
2004 |
Il ne faut jurer... de rien! [Eric Civanyan] Hawk Scope/c |
|
2005 |
L'ivresse du pouvoir/Comedy of Power [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
2006 |
Blood Diamond [Edward Zwick] Hawk Scope/c; uncred 2uc (+ 2ud): Gary Capo; aph: Adam Dale |
|
2006 |
The Duel [Antonio Z. Barajas] announced |
|
2006 |
La fille coupée en deux/A Girl Cut in Two [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
2007 |
Fados [Carlos Saura] c; mus doc/90m; ext ph; studio ph: José Luis López-Linares |
|
2007 |
Defiance [Edward Zwick] s35-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Gilbert Lecluyse; aph: Jeremy Braben |
|
2008 |
Bellamy/Inspector Bellamy [Claude Chabrol] c |
|
2009 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 [David Yates] s35 (+ IMAX-70bu [3-D] & D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/c; 2uc: Mike Brewster; aph: Adam Dale; uwph: Tim Wooster; filmed 2009-10 |
|
2009 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 [David Yates] s35 (+ IMAX-70bu [3-D] & D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/c; 2uc: Mike Brewster; aph: Adam Dale; filmed 2009-10 |
|
2010 |
Belle du Seigneur [Glenio Bonder] scope/c |
|
2012 |
A Therapy [Roman Polanski] s35-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; comm short/4m; for Prada |
|
2012 |
The Great [Gillian Armstrong] pre-production; scheduled to start filming in September; status unknown |
|
2012 |
A Promise/Une promesse [Patrice Leconte] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus 4:3/p)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c |
| TELEVISION | |
|---|---|
|
1982 |
C'est dimanche [Jacques Deschamps] tvm |
|
1982 |
Trois morts à zéro [Jacques Renard] tvm |
|
1986 |
Die dritte Dimension/The Third Dimension/La troisième dimension [Heinz-Peter Schwerfel] 3-part (x 45m) doc series/16mm; also 1993 version (45m) |
|
1988 |
Le mouchoir de Joseph [Jacques Fansten] tvm |
|
1990 |
Cinéma portugais, un mode d'emploi [Eduardo Serra] doc/?m |
| MISCELLANEOUS [c.asst - c.op - lighting dir] | |
|---|---|
|
1970 |
M comme Mathieu/'M' as in Mathieu [Jean-François Adam] co-c.asst; ph: Pierre Lhomme |
|
1972 |
L'héritier/The Inheritor [Philippe Labro] co-c.asst; ph: Jean Penzer |
|
1972 |
Les chiennes/The Bitches [Michel Lemoine] c.asst; ph: Philippe Théaudière |
|
1973 |
1789 [Ariane Mnouchkine; doc] c.asst; ph: Bernard Zitzermann |
|
1973 |
On s'est trompé d'histoire d'amour [Jean-Louis Bertuccelli] co-c.asst; ph: Claude Agostini |
|
1975 |
Le plein de super [Alain Cavalier] co-c.asst; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1975 |
Les fleur du miel [Claude Faraldo] 1st c.asst; ph: Jean-Marc Ripert |
|
1976 |
La communion solennelle [René Féret] c.op; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1976 |
Molière [Ariane Mnouchkine] 1st c.asst; ph: Bernard Zitzermann |
|
1977 |
Pourquoi pas!/Why not! [Coline Serreau] c.op; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1977 |
La zizanie/The Spat [Claude Zidi] c.op; ph: Claude Renoir |
|
1978 |
Les bronzés/French Fried Vacation [Patrice Leconte] c.asst; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1978 |
Martin et Léa [Alain Cavalier] c.asst; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1978 |
Le coup de sirocco [Alexandre Arcady] c.asst; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1979 |
Je vais craquer!!!/La course du rat/Rat Race [François Leterrier] 1st c.asst; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1979 |
Les bronzés font du ski [Patrice Leconte] c.asst; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1980 |
La banquière/The Woman Banker [Francis Girod] co-c.asst; ph: Bernard Zitzermann |
|
1981 |
Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine [Patrice Leconte] co-c.asst; ph: Bernard Zitzermann |
|
1988 |
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen [A Film By Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb, Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin] c; mus doc/57m; lighting dir; ph: A. Maysles & Martin Schaer |
| FILMS AS DIRECTOR | |
|---|---|
|
1975 |
Um aniversário/Un anniversaire [+ ph] see Films |
|
1982 |
Rink-Hockey [+ ph] see Films |
|
1990 |
Cinéma portugais, un mode d'emploi [+ ph] see Television |
