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Matthias Fleischer

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
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Matthias Fleischer
Matthias grew up in enclosed West-Berlin, super8 film all around due to his father's obsession to record family life. Early on he started shooting stop-motion shorts, documentaries and a 30' short filmed in Super8 CinemaScope at the age of 16. After a brief look into studying meteorology he got another offer to work in a commercial production - and never went back. Making his way through the technical jobs behind the camera in feature and music video productions Matthias finally graduated as a DP from german Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg with more than 20 shorts in the cans and a handful of awards and an Academy Award nomination as honorary foreign student film of the short "Dr. Cuddle", directed by Anja Jacobs. Formerly based in Berlin and Buenos Aires Matthias has shot over a dozen feature films with theatrical release and some tv movies and commercials since then. Right now he lives in Berlin and Munich.

  • since 1987 shooting short films in super8mm
  • 1992 lab internship at ARRIcontrast Berlin
  • 1992-1994 work as electrician, 1st assistant camera, dolly grip at student films of the 'Hochschule fuer Film und Fernsehen' (University for Film and TV of) Potsdam-Babelsberg'
  • 1993-1995 work as freelance electrician
  • since 1995 work as freelance gaffer
  • since 1996 work as a freelance 1st assistant camera
  • 1998-2003 enrolled at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, graduation as 'Director of Photography'
  • aug-sept/2003 Budapest Cinematography Masterclass 2003 (Zsigmond/Kovacs)
  • since 2011 giving lectures at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb), Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg Media School, Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film Munich (HFF Munich)
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    • 5 wins & 2 nominations

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talking through the shots with director Mike Schaerer (left)
THE GOLDFISH in Zurich
Opening sequence THE PEPPERCORNS
Matthias Fleischer
shooting EL DÍA QUE NO NACÍ in Buenos Aires
Matthias Fleischer
Matthias Fleischer
during rehearsal of Walpurgis night dance for THE LITTLE WITCH

Known for

Teresa Rizos, Luise Heyer, and Taneshia Abt in JGA: Jasmin. Gina. Anna. (2022)
JGA: Jasmin. Gina. Anna.
5.2
  • Cinematographer
  • 2022
Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016)
Mitten in Deutschland: NSU
7.3
TV Mini Series
  • Cinematographer
Karoline Herfurth and Axel Prahl in The Little Witch (2018)
The Little Witch
6.2
  • Cinematographer
  • 2018
Das Lied in mir (2010)
Das Lied in mir
6.8
  • Cinematographer
  • 2010

Credits

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Cinematographer

  • Teresa Rizos, Luise Heyer, and Taneshia Abt in JGA: Jasmin. Gina. Anna. (2022)
    JGA: Jasmin. Gina. Anna.
    • Cinematographer
    • 2022
  • Martina Eitner-Acheampong, Nina Kunzendorf, Ulrich Tukur, and Friederike Becht in Ökozid (2020)
    Ökozid
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Movie
    • 2020
  • Charlotte Martz, Linda Madita, Caspar Fischer-Ortmann, Leander Pütz, and Emilia Flint in The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea (2020)
    The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
    • Cinematographer
    • 2020
  • Birgit Minichmayr, Tom Schilling, Axel Stein, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Kida Khodr Ramadan, Jella Haase, and Luisa Wöllisch in The Goldfish (2019)
    The Goldfish
    • Cinematographer
    • 2019
  • Maria Schrader and Jonas Nay in Deutschland 86 (2018)
    Deutschland 86
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2018
  • Karoline Herfurth and Axel Prahl in The Little Witch (2018)
    The Little Witch
    • Cinematographer
    • 2018
  • Jorge Román, Mirella Pascual, Osmar Núñez, Pablo Ríos, and María Inés Sancerni in Vigilia (2017)
    Vigilia
    • Cinematographer
    • 2017
  • Being Awake
    • Cinematographer
    • 2016
  • Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016)
    Mitten in Deutschland: NSU
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2016
  • Anuk Steffen in Heidi (2015)
    Heidi
    • Cinematographer
    • 2015
  • Police Call 110 (1971)
    Police Call 110
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Series
    • 2008–2015
  • Alex Ozerov-Meyer in Coconut Hero (2015)
    Coconut Hero
    • Cinematographer (Germany)
    • 2015
  • Iris Berben, Edgar Selge, and Jördis Richter in Miss Sixty (2014)
    Miss Sixty
    • Cinematographer
    • 2014
  • Akte Grüninger (2014)
    Akte Grüninger
    • Cinematographer
    • 2014
  • The Musician, the Painter, the Designer and the One Who Is Still Searching
    • Cinematographer
    • 2014

Camera and Electrical Department

  • Das geheime Kino
    • gaffer
    • Short
    • 2007
  • Tage des Sturms
    • rigging gaffer/best boy
    • TV Movie
    • 2003
  • Wie verliebt man seinen Vater?
    • assistant camera
    • 2002
  • Tattoo (2002)
    Tattoo
    • rigging gaffer/best boy
    • 2002
  • Andreas Herder and Stefanie Schmid in ...und plötzlich wird es dunkel in meinem Leben (2001)
    ...und plötzlich wird es dunkel in meinem Leben
    • rigging gaffer/best boy
    • TV Movie
    • 2001
  • Be.Angeled (2001)
    Be.Angeled
    • rigging gaffer/best boy
    • 2001
  • HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin (1998)
    HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
    • first assistant camera (as Matthias Gillner)
    • TV Series
    • 2000
  • Der Pilot
    • assistant camera
    • Short
    • 2000
  • Trennungsfieber
    • assistant camera
    • TV Movie
    • 2000
  • Helden wie wir (1999)
    Helden wie wir
    • rigging gaffer: Leipzig
    • 1999
  • Bruno Eyron and Ludger Pistor in Balko (1995)
    Balko
    • assistant camera (as Matthias Gillner)
    • TV Series
    • 1998
  • Schau mich nicht so böse an (1998)
    Schau mich nicht so böse an
    • assistant camera
    • 1998
  • Jürgen Heinrich and Navid Navid in Wolffs Revier (1992)
    Wolffs Revier
    • first assistant camera (as Matthias Gillner)
    • TV Series
    • 1998
  • Life Is a Cabaret
    • assistant camera
    • TV Movie
    • 1997
  • Not a Love Song (1997)
    Not a Love Song
    • gaffer (as Matthias Gillner)
    • 1997

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    • 1973
    • Berlin

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