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DANEANDABLE ANINTERVIEWWITH
CHARLOTTEBRUUSCHRISTENSEN
lthough she might be seen as the latest in an illustrious line of young, talented Danish cinematographers, the British film industry can lay some claim to Charlotte Bruus
Christensen as one of its own.
For while the DP, born in the countryside south
of Copenhagen, began her career studying at the European Film College, her cinematographic education began in earnest when she enrolled at the National Film and Television School and got a chance in the UK to learn a craft that had always held a fascination for her.
“I love the camera,” she says, “but I’m less concerned with how it works than I am about lighting, the framing and the telling of the story. But I knew then that cinematography was what I really wanted to do.”
Which is not to say that this is the sole extent of her ambitions. Bruus Christensen has written and directed shorts, and is writing her first feature – though she emphasises this is as much to do with trying to familiarise herself with all aspects of filmmaking.
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