| Bastian Clevé | |
| Birth Date: | 1950 1, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Munich, Germany |
| Occupation: | Filmmaker, Professor, Film producer, Author |
Bastian Clevé (born 1 January 1950, in Munich), is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Clevé grew up in Hamburg.[1] 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 (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 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 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.
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 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.[2]
The focus of Clevé‘s artistic filmmaking lies in the manipulation of real-live imagery using sophisticated in-camera-editing and optical printing.
Seelig
Nachtwache
Lichtblick
Die Reise
Empor
Nach Bluff
Szenische Übersicht
Parade für die Unabhängigkeit
Am Wegerand
Oscar
Sehen ist Glauben
Labyrinth
Fatehpur Sikri
East I
East II
Transit
Zenith
Tollhaus II
Kaskaden
Echo
Motion Picture
Descanso
Winterlandschaft
Der Deutschlandfahrer
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.
Interview: Philipp Glass
Development/Stoffentwicklung
Cashing In – Chancen und Risisken privater Filmfinanzierungsfonds
Wege zum Geld
Drehen in Deutschland – Shooting in Germany
Von der Idee zum Film