Bastian Clevé (born 1 January 1950, in
Munich
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), is a German
filmmaker
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and
producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the
Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in
Ludwigsburg
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,
Germany
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.
Biography
Clevé grew up in
Hamburg
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.
After a two-year stint as sound-assistant at the TV-studios in Munich he studied ''Visual Communication'' in Hamburg at the
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
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(University of Fine Arts of Hamburg) where he continued filmmaking.
In 1975/76 he was awarded a one-year scholarship by the
German Academic Exchange Service
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Organisa ...
''DAAD'' to study at the
San Francisco Art Institute. He was touring with his experimental short films throughout the continent. After a brief return to Germany he relocated to
Los Angeles
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in 1979 where he worked as a freelance writer, director and producer.
In 1991 he returned to Germany to become Professor and Head of the Department for “Film Production and the Business of Entertainment” at the newly established
Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, in charge of the training program and the curriculum for motion-picture- and TV-producers. Clevé wrote and edited more than two dozens books on filmmaking and film production. He is married with a daughter.
Work
Clevé started personal filmmaking in 1969 with short-films progressing into feature-lengths works. He sustained his efforts by winning awards and by touring and lecturing extensively throughout the world. Upon moving to
Los Angeles
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he focused on the commercial side of filmmaking by picking up the craft of producing. He continued both his artistic and commercial filmmaking later on throughout his professorship in Germany.
His first DVD entitled ''Journeys'' contains ''Schau ins Land'', ''Nachtwache'', ''Lichtblick'', ''Die Reise'', ''Empor'', ''Nach Bluff'' and ''Fatehpur Sikri''.
Bastian Clevé: Journeys
provided by redavocado
Filmography
The focus of Clevé‘s artistic filmmaking lies in the manipulation of real-live imagery using sophisticated in-camera-editing and optical printing.
Short films
*1971 ''Pariser Traum / Rève Parisien''
*1974 ''Götterdämmerung''
*1975 ''Schau ins Land''
:: ''Seelig''
:: ''Nachtwache''
::''Lichtblick''
*1977 ''Über den Flammenbaum''
::''Die Reise''
::''Empor''
::''Nach Bluff''
*1978 ''Amerika: Neben anderem: Rodeo''
:: ''Szenische Übersicht''
:: ''Parade für die Unabhängigkeit''
:: ''Am Wegerand''
*1979 ''Tollhaus''
*1980 ''Raga''
:: ''Oscar''
:: ''Sehen ist Glauben''
:: ''Labyrinth''
:: ''Fatehpur Sikri''
:: ''East I''
:: ''East II''
:: ''Transit''
*1981 ''Puzzles''
:: ''Zenith''
:: ''Tollhaus II''
*1982 ''Der mystische Augenblick''
:: ''Kaskaden''
:: ''Echo''
*1983 ''Pool''
:: ''Motion Picture''
:: ''Descanso''
:: ''Winterlandschaft''
*1986 ''Kyrie''
Feature-length films
*1978 ''San Francisco Zephyr''
:: ''Der Deutschlandfahrer''
*1980 '' Exit Sunset Boulevard''
*1981 ''Holi''
*1983 ''Der Sheriff aus Altona''
*1986 ''Das blinde Glück''
*1988 ''Die Reise aus dem 23.Jahrhundert''
*1992 ''Winterreise im Jahre 1''
*2001 ''So weit die Füße tragen (a.k.a. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me)''
*2005 ''Klang der Ewigkeit (a.k.a. Sound of Eternity)''
Commercial filmmaking
Clevé‘s commercial filmmaking as a writer/director/producer has been for TV and as producer/production-manager/line-producer for German and American third party projects (''Bagdad Café) or other contracted work. He has worked and produced throughout the world.
*''Lumigraph''
*''Oskar Fischinger – Life and Work''
*''Die Familie Oppermann''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: Caracas''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: Bogota''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: São Paulo''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: Vancouver''
* ''Melodie einer Stadt: Quebec City''
*''Die experimentellen Filme des Bastian Clevé''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: Buenos Aires''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: Rio de Janeiro''
*''Melodie einer Stadt: Mexiko''
*''Out of Rosenheim (a.k.a. Bagdad Café)''
*''Nightchildren''
*''Die verklärte Nacht''
Honors and awards (''selection'')
*''Lichtblick'' BMI-Award 1976
*''Empor'' German Film Award 1978
*''Am Wegerand'' German Film Award 1979
*''San Francisco Zephyr'' French Film-Critic's Award, Hyères Filmfestival 78
*''Der Deutschlandfahrer'' BMI-Shortfilm-Award 1978
*''Exit Sunset Boulevard'' BMI-Screenplay-Award 1978
*''Das blinde Glück'' BMI-Screenplay-Award 1985
*''Sound of Eternity'' HD Fest DEFFY-Award 2006
Books (''selection'')
*1989 ''The Art of Personal Filmmaking''
*1994 ''Film Production Management''
:: ''Interview: Philipp Glass''
*1997 ''1.Akademiekreis Production Value''
:: ''Development/Stoffentwicklung''
:: ''Cashing In – Chancen und Risisken privater Filmfinanzierungsfonds''
:: ''Wege zum Geld''
:: ''Drehen in Deutschland – Shooting in Germany''
*1998 ''Investoren im Visier''
:: ''Von der Idee zum Film''
*1999 ''Film Production Management''
*2005 ''Gib niemals auf – Filmökonomie in der Praxis''
References
External links
*
Study programs at FilmakademieSoweit die Füsse tragenKlang der Ewigkeit
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Film directors from Munich
Living people
1950 births
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg alumni