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AlunBollinger

  • Cinematographer
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Alun Bollinger, MNZM, has been crafting the slanting southern light onto film and other formats, for almost 40 years. He is arguably New Zealand's premier cinematographer; images framed by Bollinger's camera include some of the most indelible memories to come from iconic films like Goodbye Pork Pie, Vigil and Heavenly Creatures.

Screenography

2022 Cinematographer Film
Beyond the Veil
2022 Cinematographer Series
2018 Cinematographer Short film
Behold the Ghost
2018 Cinematographer Short film
In Dark Places
2018 Cinematographer Television

Biography

Since the 1960s, Alun Bollinger has worked with almost every significant Kiwi movie director: among them Geoff Murphy, Ian Mune, Gaylene Preston, Vincent Ward, Roger Donaldson, Peter Jackson and Jane Campion.

Awards

2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Cinematographer - Drama: for In Dark Places

2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Cinematography (with Waka Attewell): for The Great Maiden's Blush

“I like being minimalist. I suppose it’s because I’ve been brought up in the shoestring school of filmmaking. I quite enjoy for instance putting up one light and making it do two or three different jobs.”

Alun Bollinger

Related images

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Cinematographer Alun Bollinger and writer/director Gaylene Preston during the filming of 2003 movie Perfect Strangers.
Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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Behind the scenes on 1985 movie Mr Wrong, in Pāuatahanui. From left to right: director Gaylene Preston (seated), assistant grip Alistair Allan, camera operator Alun Bollinger, first assistant director John Samuels, continuity person Margot Shellgrove, and cinematographer Thomas Burstyn.
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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Left to right: Derek Morton, Geoff Murphy and (seated) cameraman Alun Bollinger, during the making of short film The Box (1969?).
Photo believed to have been taken by Helen Whiteford
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Rachael Blake as Melanie in a scene from Gaylene Preston's 2003 feature Perfect Strangers.
Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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Arriving on the island: Melanie (Rachael Blake) and The Man (Sam Neill) in Perfect Strangers.
Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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On location in Wellington for 2001 movie Stickmen: from left, camera operator Alun Bollinger, director Hamish Rothwell and cinematographer Nigel Bluck.
Kindly provided by Onfilm
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