Sven Kirsten
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- August 27, 1955 (age 71)
- Birthplace
- Hamburg, Germany
Biography
Sven Kirsten was born in 1955 in the port town of Hamburg, Germany. He was supposedly conceived on a freighter of his grandfather's Hamburg-Chicago line between America and Germany (those were long trips). The sailor's bars of the Reeperbahn red light district and the curiosities of the Hamburg Anthropology Museum formed the fertile soil to inspire Sven to follow the call to other distant shores in 1980. After a brief stint at the San Francisco Art Institute, he continued his education as cinematographer at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Here he fell in love with the aesthetic extremes of L.A. In parallel to lighting and shooting music videos and features with Tom Waits, Sergio Mendes or Robert De Niro, he began to pursue his hobby of urban archeology. Over the last ten years he has photographed and collected the remnants of the vanishing Tiki cult in America. He hopes that his Book of Tiki adequately represents the visual seductiveness of this unique, never-before-recognized facet of American pop culture. When not shooting cable TV movies in Europe, Sven lives with his 9 year old son, Diego, in his hilltop home overlooking the Silverlake reservoir in the center of Los Angeles.
Known For
Filmography
Bad Painter
Movie · Director of Photography
Kubanisch für Fortgeschrittene
Movie · Camera Operator
Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical
Movie · Director of Photography
Eine Liebe in St. Petersburg
Movie · Director of Photography
I Know What You Did Last Winter
Movie · Director of Photography
Mann gesucht, Liebe gefunden
Movie · Director of Photography
Love Crash
Movie · Director of Photography
Roommate Wanted
Movie · Director of Photography
Heart of Stone
Movie · Director of Photography
Welcher Mann sagt schon die Wahrheit?
Movie · Director of Photography
Dead Island: School's Out 2
Movie · Director of Photography
Neonnächte - Der U-Bahn-Schlitzer
Movie · Director of Photography
Die Traumprinzen
Movie · Director of Photography
School's Out
Movie · Director of Photography
7 Tage bis zum Glück
Movie · Director of Photography
Die sieben Feuer des Todes
Movie · Director of Photography
No Strings Attached
Movie · Additional Photography
Der Venusmörder
Movie · Director of Photography
Beyond Desire
Movie · Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Play Time
Movie · Director of Photography
Teresa's Tattoo
Movie · Director of Photography
Doppelganger
Movie · Director of Photography
Mistress
Movie · Director of Photography
Liquid Dreams
Movie · Director of Photography
Small White House
Movie · Director of Photography
Tom Waits: Big Time
Movie · Camera Operator
Grottenolm
Movie · Director of Photography
Women in Rock
Movie · Director of Photography
Kortnergeschichten
Movie · Director of Photography
Punk in London
Movie · Director of Photography