Agnes godard biography

Agnès Godard was.
Agnès Godard (born 28 May 1951) is a French cinematographer.
Agnès Godard is a French cinematographer.

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Agnès Godard

Agnès Godard (born 28 May 1951) is a French cinematographer. She is most famous for her long-running collaboration with filmmaker Claire Denis. For her work, she has won a César Award. Godard originally studied journalism, but switched to film after several years, graduating from La Femis (then known as IDHEC) in 1980. Her first project as a cinematographer was Wim Wenders' 50-minute Room 666, made for television.

There she met Claire Denis, who was working as Wenders' assistant director. Godard spent much of the 1980s working as an assistant camera operator or focus puller on films by Wenders, Joseph Losey, Peter Greenaway and Alain Resnais. She also served as director of photography on a short film directed by legendary cinematographer Henri Alekan. Her first collaboration with Denis was the director's debut feature, Chocolat, where she served as the camera operator; she has been Denis' regular cinematographer since 1990, when the two worked together on a documentary about Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jacques Rivette made for the French television series Cinema, de

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Agnès Godard

Born in 1951, Agnès Godard is director of photography.

She began her career as a camera assistant alongside Henri Alekan and then Robby Müller for the film Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders. She continued her career by becoming a cameraman and quickly became a cinematographer.

Known in particular for her faithful collaboration with Claire Denis, she has been working for years on the imaging of her films. In 2001, she won the César for best photography for Beau Travail .

In 2009, she received the special prize from the Superior Technical Commission for Image and Sound and then, in 2013, the special Camera 300 d'or prize was awarded to her for her contribution to world cinema. Peter Handke, Agnès Varda, Emanuele Crialese, Claude Berri, Noémie Lvovsky, André Téchiné, Tonie Marshall, Ursula Meier, Sébastien Lipschitz ... so many directors who have appealed to her images, with such particular textures, and to the sensuality they express.

In 2012, she took the digital step and worked on additional lights, playing with consistency, driven by a desire to reinvent the i