Fred Kelemen was born in West Berlin/Germany. He studied painting, music, philosophy, religious science and drama studies and worked in various theatres as a director’s assistant before beginning his studies in directing and cinematography at the German Film & TV Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1989 to 1994. He graduated from the dffb with a diploma as a director and as a cinematographer. For his diploma film “Fate” he received the German National Film Award in 1995. Since then, he has made a number of films and videos as director and collaborated as cinematographer with several film directors like Joseph Pitchhadze (“Sweets”, Israel 2013), Béla Tarr (“Journey to the Plain”, Hungary 1995, “The Man from London”, Hungary/France/Germany 2007, “The Turin Horse”, Hungary, France, USA, Germany 2011 ), Rudolf Thome (“The Visible and the Invisible”, Germany 2006), Gariné Torossian (“Stone, Time, Touch”, Canada/Armenia 2005) a.o.
Fallen
(Writer)
Fallen
(Director)
Stone Time Touch
(Cinematography)
Frost
(Director)
Frost
(Writer)
The Visible and the Invisible
(Director of Photography)
Nightfall
(Director of Photography)
Missing People
(Director of Photography)
Sarajevo Songs of Woe
(Camera Operator)
Journey on the Plain
(Director of Photography)
Fate
(Director of Photography)
Kalyi: Age of Darkness
(Director of Photography)
Stone Time Touch
(Director of Photography)
Frost
(Director of Photography)
Nightfall
(Director)
Fate
(Director)
Frost
(Production Design)
Frost
(Editor)
Kalyi: Age of Darkness
(Director)
The Turin Horse
(Director of Photography)
Sarajevo Songs of Woe
(Writer)
Sarajevo Songs of Woe
(Director)
Sarajevo Songs of Woe
(Producer)
Sarajevo Songs of Woe
(Editor)
Muhamed
(Director of Photography)
Fallen
(Production Design)
Fallen
(Producer)
Kalyi: Age of Darkness
(Writer)
Kalyi: Age of Darkness
(Editor)
Nightfall
(Editor)
Fallen
(Editor)
Nightfall
(Writer)
Fate
(Writer)
Fate
(Editor)
Esau
(Director of Photography)
The Man from London
(Director of Photography)
Moskatchka
(Producer)
Fallen
(Director of Photography)