Sven Kirsten
Personal Info
Know For
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1955-08-27 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamburg, Germany
Also known As
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Sven Kirsten
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 shootin...
Acting
Production
1995
as Director of Photography
2002
as Director of Photography
1995
as Camera Operator
1992
as Director of Photography
2001
as Director of Photography
1995
as Director of Photography
2002
as Director of Photography
1987
as Gaffer
1994
as Director of Photography
2025
as Director of Photography
2015
as Camera Operator
2003
as Director of Photography
1997
as Director of Photography
1988
as Electrician
1984
as Electrician
2001
as Director of Photography
2000
as Director of Photography
2004
as Director of Photography
1993
as Director of Photography
1996
as Director of Photography
1991
as Director of Photography
1980
as Director of Photography
2001
as Director of Photography
2000
as Director of Photography
1999
as Director of Photography
1985
as Director of Photography
1980
as Director of Photography
1977
as Director of Photography
2025
as Cinematography
1997
as Additional Photography
2009
as Director of Photography
1988
as Camera Operator
2011
as Director of Photography
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