Which filmmaker started their career in art rather than acting, Satyajit Ray or Deborah Kampmeier?
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Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায় , ] ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali Brahmo family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) during a visit to London.
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Deborah Kampmeier Deborah Kampmeier is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and acting teacher best known for her films "Split," (2016) "Hounddog" (2007) and "Virgin". (2003). Deborah began her career in theater as an actress after training at the National Shakespeare Conservatory from 1983–85, and has taught acting in NYC for the past 20 years at such institutions as NYU, Stella Adler Studios, Michael Howard Studios, Playwrights Horizons and The National Shakespeare Conservatory. She currently teaches a Master Acting Class in New York City.
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Marc Lafia Marc Lafia (born November 21, 1955) is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, curator, educator, essayist and information architect.
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Pather Panchali Pather Panchali (] , English: "Song of the Little Road" ) is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal. It is based on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name and is Ray's directorial debut. It features Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta and Chunibala Devi. The first film in the Apu trilogy, "Pather Panchali" depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu (Subir Banerjee) and his elder sister Durga (Uma Dasgupta) and the harsh village life of their poor family.
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Tripti Mitra Tripti Mitra (née Tripti Bhaduri; 25 October 1925 – 1989) was a popular Indian actress of Bengali theatre and films, and wife of Sombhu Mitra, noted theatre director, with whom she co-founded pioneering theatre group "Bohurupee" in 1948. She has acted in films like "Jukti Takko Aar Gappo" and "Dharti Ke Lal".
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Slow cinema Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema film-making that emphasizes long takes, and is often minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative. It is sometimes called "contemplative cinema". Examples include Ben Rivers' "Two Years at Sea", Michelangelo Frammartino's "Le Quattro Volte", and Shaun Wilson's film "51 Paintings".
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Sambhaji Kadam (artist) Sambhaji Kadam (born 5 November 1932 in Deogarh, Maharashtra State) is a professor, former dean of the J.J School of Art in Mumbai, and a portrait painter, musician, poet and art and literary critic.
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Kamar Ahmed Saimon Kamar Ahmad Simon is a Bangladeshi film maker. He is a writer, director, and cinematographer who started his career in advertising as an art director. He joined with Tareque Masud, as the Chief art director for the movie "Kagojer Phool".
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Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac (] ; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, "La Souriante Madame Beudet" ("The Smiling Madam Beudet", 1922/23), and her Surrealist experiment, "La Coquille et le Clergyman" ("The Seashell and the Clergyman", 1928). Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont.
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Jules Engel Jules Engel (March 11, 1909 – September 6, 2003) was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher. He is the founding director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.
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Sunset at Chaophraya (1996 film) Sunset at Chaophraya (Thai: คู่กรรม , "Khu Kam") is a 1996 romantic-drama film directed by Euthana Mukdasanit. Adapted from the novel "Khu Kam" by Thommayanti, the story is a love triangle, set in World War II-era Thailand, and depicts the star-crossed romance between an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and a Thai woman who is involved with the Free Thai resistance.
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Standish Lawder Standish Dyer Lawder (1936 – 21 June 2014) was an American artist, art historian and inventor, who contributed to the structural film movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Kameya Tokujirō Kameya Tokujirō (1825–1884 ) was a pioneering, though now little-known, nineteenth-century Japanese photographer. Kameya's original surname was Abe (阿部 ); he was adopted by a family named Kameya. He learned photography at Deshima, the Dutch enclave in the harbour of Nagasaki where physicians Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort taught photography in addition to medicine and chemistry. In turn, Kameya taught photography to Tomishige Rihei, who became his apprentice in 1862. The same year, Kameya moved to Kyoto to open a photographic studio – the first commercial studio in the city. In 1868, he returned to Nagasaki, where he operated a studio until his death. He died in 1884 in Vladivostok, having opened a branch studio there.
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Rebecca Salter Rebecca Salter RA (born 1955), is a British artist known as painter and printmaker. Salter specialises in woodblock printing. She trained at Bristol Polytechnic and during her six years in Japan at Kyoto City University of the Arts. In Kyoto she studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing with Professor Kurosaki Akira.
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Beat Kuert Beat Kuert is a film director, multimedia artist, and author considered from a number of critics, such as journalist and film producer , one of the most daring explorers of his generation.
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Mitra Farahani Mitra Farahani (in Persian: میترا فراهانی‎ ‎ , born 1975, Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris.
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My Years with Apu: A Memoir My Years with Apu: A Memoir, first published in 1994, is a memoir by the Indian film director Satyajit Ray. The book was published posthumously. The memoir describes Ray's experience and thoughts during the making of the acclaimed Apu Trilogy.
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Kamal Aljafari Kamal Aljafari - (Arabic: كمال الجعفري) is an experimental Palestinian filmmaker born in Ramle in 1972. He has attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2009, he was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film seminar in New York and was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University through 2009-2010.
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Bishoy Chalachchitra Bishoy Chalachchitra is a collection of writings on films by the acclaimed film director Satyajit Ray. The book is in Bengali and was published by Ananda Publishers.
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Theo Kamecke Theo Kamecke (October 18, 1937 - May 23, 2017) is a sculptor, who previously worked as a film director during the 1960s and 1970s. Kamecke's best known film is "Moonwalk One" - a NASA commissioned documentary feature film to cover their Apollo 11 mission in the summer of 1969. Theo's other influential films included "The Incredible Bread Machine Film", and "To Be Alive", which he worked as a film editor on. Since the 1980s, Theo has worked as a sculptor, working in the medium of early electronic circuits. His work has been purchased by film director James Cameron.
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Richard Linklater Richard Stuart Linklater ( ; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990), the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003), and the rotoscope animated "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). In 2002 he began filming "Boyhood" (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture. In 2015, "Time" magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual "Time 100" list.
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Johannes Guter Johannes Guter (25 April 1882 – 18 March 1962) born Janis Guters was a Latvian filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer. Although most of his work is now lost, he is considered a pioneer of German silent cinema and expressionism.