Camera lecture “HD versus 35mm”

Gernot Roll, veteran of German cinema and TV, is a forerunner when it comes to the new HD technique of ARRI D21. HD, rejected by many as not matured enough, is according to Gernot Roll a match for 35mm, if not superior to it. With scenes from his latest film (Henri IV), shot with an ARRI D21, and a test with split screen samples of 35mm and D21 (35 mm print) which he carried out beforehand, he will show differences, advantages and disadvantages of both techniques. After the lecture there will be an opportunity for extensive discussions and a personal talk with Gernot Roll.

The lecturer:
Gernot Roll is one of the busiest German-speaking cameramen. Since 1960 he has shot over one hundred cinema and TV productions. Most memorable works have been collaborations with Helmut Dietl, Axel Corti and Edgar Reitz. Roll belongs to the most accomplished creator of images because he uses the same amount of dedication for the elaborate style of meticulously composed images as for functionally arranged scenes: “I have to be good to survive”. Gernot Roll was born in 1939 in Dresden, studied from 1953-1956 at the DEFA at the Filmhochschule Potsdam-Babelsberg and left the GDR for the west, where he worked for Bavaria, Munich, at over 40 TV movies and series. Besides numerous TV projects, Roll shot Caroline Link’s drama Jenseits der Stille and her Oscar-winning Nirgendwo in Afrika as well as Sönke Wortmann’s Kleine Haie and Der bewegte Mann.

Among his many awards there are six Adolf-Grimme-Preise (for Heimat, Welcome in Vienna, Radetzkymarsch, Die Manns, the Schubert trilogy Mit meinen heißen Tränen). He was awarded three times the Deutsche Filmpreis (1992 Meine Tochter gehört mir, Kleine Haie und Wildfeuer, 1994 Krücke, 2002 Nirgendwo in Afrika) and received two Deutsche Kamerapreise (for Mit meinen heißen Tränen and an honorary award), the Bayrische Filmpreis (Wildfeuer) and the Bayrische Fernsehpreis (Bernd Eichinger’s Das Mädchen Rosemarie).

Unlimited number of paricipants

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Day / time: Thursday April 2, 2009, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Ort: Gartenbau Kino