Bastian Clevé


Bastian Clevé, 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.

Biography

Clevé grew up in Hamburg. 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 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.

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 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.

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
  • 1977 Über den Flammenbaum
  • 1978 Amerika: Neben anderem: Rodeo
  • 1979 Tollhaus
  • 1980 Raga
  • 1981 Puzzles
  • 1982 Der mystische Augenblick
  • 1983 Pool
  • 1986 ''Kyrie''

Feature-length films

  • 1978 San Francisco Zephyr
  • 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
  • 2005 ''Klang der Ewigkeit ''

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 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: VancouverMelodie 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
  • 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'')