Manuel Alberto Claro

Manuel Alberto Claro is a Chilean-Danish cinematographer. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. In 1974 he moved to Denmark and since that time lives in Copenhagen.

He graduated as a stills photographer from Milan's Istituto Europeo di Design in 1994 and then worked as an assistant photographer in Milan, New York City and Copenhagen before enrolling at the National Film School of Denmark in 1997.

Since 2001 he has shot a number of features among them Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or in Cannes 2003 and the Bronze Frog at Camerimage 2004. Dark Horse which premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes 2005. Allegro which premiered at Venice Film Festival 2005 and for which he won both the Robert and the Bodil 2006 awards for best cinematography.

He also works on commercials for companies like IKEA, Nokia, Volkswagen and music videos.

Filmography

Feature films

• Zakka West (2003, dir. Mikael Colville-Andersen)
• Reconstruction (2003, dir. Christoffer Boe)
• Scratch (2003, dir. Anders Gustafsson)
• Little Daddy (2004, dir. Michael W. Horsten)
• Silkroad (2004, dir. Jytte Rex)
• Dark Horse (2005), dir. Dagur Kari)
• Allegro (2005), dir. Christoffer Boe)
• Weapons (2007), dir. Adam Bhala Lough)
• The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar III: The Mystery of the Snake Crown (2008, dir. Giacomo Campeotto)
• The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II (2007, dir. Giacomo Campeotto)
• Everything Is Relative (2008, dir. Mikala Krogh)
• The Candidate (2008, dir. Kasper Barfoed)
• Everything will be Fine (2010, dir. Christoffer Boe)
• Melancholia (2011, dir. Lars von Trier)
• Nymph()maniac (2013, dir. Lars von Trier)
• Top Five (2014, dir. Chris Rock)

Short Films

• Anxiety, (2001, dir. Christoffer Boe)
• Visions of Europe (2004 segment "Europe Does Not Exist", dir. Christoffer Boe)

Awards

• 2003: Golden Plaque for Reconstruction, Chicago International Filmfestival
• 2004: Bronze Frog for Reconstruction, Camerimage
• 2006: Robert for Allegro
• 2006: Bodil Award for Best Cinematographer for Allegro and Dark Horse
• 2010: Bodil Award for Best Cinematographer for Antichrist
• 2011: European Film Award
• 2012: Bodil Award for Best Cinematographer for Melancholia

References

External links

• manuelclaro.com
• Manuel Alberto Claro at the Internet Movie Database
• Manuel Alberto Claro at the Danish Association of Cinematographers
• Lorena Cancela: "The Lovers from Copenhagen: A Conversation with Manuel Alberto Claro and Tine Grew Pfeiffer on Reconstruction" Senses of Cinema (June 2004)