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CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1968 · BELGIUM

Benoit Debie

Saturated, hallucinatory colour and restless camera.

Born
1968
Country
Belgium
Field
Cinematographer

KNOWN FOR

  1. 2002Irréversible
  2. 2009Enter the Void
  3. 2013Spring Breakers

WHY THEY MATTER

Independent Spirit Award nomination for Spring Breakers; Lumiere and Magritte award honours; long collaboration with Gaspar Noe.

THE LIFE

Debie studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium and spent ten years in television, short films and advertising. Gaspar Noe hired him for his first feature as director of photography, Irreversible, after seeing the short A Wonderful Love. He went on to shoot Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence and Noe's Enter the Void. His work on Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

Source: Wikipedia

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