Bastian Clevé

• Name — Bastian Clevé • Born — 1950 • Birthplace — Munich, Germany • Occupation — Filmmaker, Professor, Film producer, Author

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 (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.

The focus of Clevé‘s artistic filmmaking lies in the manipulation of real-live imagery using sophisticated in-camera-editing and optical printing.

• 1971 Pariser Traum / Rève Parisien • 1974 Götterdämmerung • 1975 Schau ins Land • Seelig • Nachtwache • Lichtblick • 1977 Über den Flammenbaum • Die Reise • Empor • Nach Bluff • 1978 Amerika: Neben anderem: Rodeo • Szenische Übersicht • Parade für die Unabhängigkeit • Am Wegerand • 1979 Tollhaus • 1980 Raga • Oscar • Sehen ist Glauben • Labyrinth • Fatehpur Sikri • East I • East II • Transit • 1981 Puzzles • Zenith • Tollhaus II • 1982 Der mystische Augenblick • Kaskaden • Echo • 1983 Pool • Motion Picture • Descanso • Winterlandschaft • 1986 Kyrie

• 1978 San Francisco Zephyr • Der Deutschlandfahrer • 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 (a.k.a. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me) • 2005 Klang der Ewigkeit (a.k.a. Sound of Eternity)