David Claessen is a Dutch cinematographer and director.

Education

Claessen attended the

Netherlands Film Academy The Netherlands Film Academy () (NFA) was founded in 1958. The academy is the only recognised institute in the Netherlands that offers training to prepare for the work in the various crew disciplines. Specialisation is possible in fiction direc ...

() in Amsterdam.

Films

In 1983, he shot ''Haute Mer'', directed by French filmmaker

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. In 1997 Claessen met director

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. They have collaborated on four films together: including the award-winning ''

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'', ''Love Song'' (2000), '' Brothers of the Borderland'' (2004), and ''Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl'' (2016).

Personal life

In 1986, Claessen moved to the United States where he met

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during production of a documentary entitled ''Who Are They?'' They married in September 1986 and divorced two years later. Claessen married American writer and photographer

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in 2013; the couple divorced in 2015.

References

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