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- Known For
- Camera
- Born
- August 27, 1955
- Place of Birth
- Hamburg, Germany
Sven Kirsten
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 shooting music videos and features with Tom Waits, Sergio Mendes or Robert De Niro, he began to pursue his hobby of urban archeology. Over the last ten years he has photographed and collected the remnants of the vanishing Tiki cult in America. He hopes that…
Filmography
movieCabali And The Tiki Mug Obsession
2025 · Self
movieBad Painter
2025 · Director of Photography
movieKubanisch für Fortgeschrittene
2015 · Camera Operator
movieThe DVD of Tiki Vol. 1 - Paradise Lost
2012 · Self
movieBiss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical
2011 · Director of Photography
movieEine Liebe in St. Petersburg
2009 · Director of Photography
movieI Know What You Did Last Winter
2004 · Director of Photography
movieMann gesucht, Liebe gefunden
2003 · Director of Photography
movieRoommate Wanted
2002 · Director of Photography
movieLove Crash
2002 · Director of Photography
movieHeart of Stone
2001 · Director of Photography
Welcher Mann sagt schon die Wahrheit?
movieWelcher Mann sagt schon die Wahrheit?
2001 · Director of Photography
movieDead Island: School's Out 2
2001 · Director of Photography
movieDie Traumprinzen
2000 · Director of Photography
Neonnächte - Der U-Bahn-Schlitzer
movieNeonnächte - Der U-Bahn-Schlitzer
2000 · Director of Photography
movieSchool's Out
1999 · Director of Photography
movie7 Tage bis zum Glück
1999 · Director of Photography
Die sieben Feuer des Todes
movieDie sieben Feuer des Todes
1997 · Director of Photography
movieNo Strings Attached
1997 · Additional Photography
movieDer Venusmörder
1996 · Director of Photography
movieBeyond Desire
1995 · Director of Photography, Camera Operator
moviePlay Time
1995 · Director of Photography
movieTeresa's Tattoo
1994 · Director of Photography
movieDoppelganger
1993 · Director of Photography
movieMistress
1992 · Director of Photography
movieLiquid Dreams
1991 · Director of Photography
movieTom Waits: Big Time
1988 · Camera Operator
movieThe Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988 · Electrician
movieSlam Dance
1987 · Gaffer
movieGrottenolm
1985 · Director of Photography
movieHardbodies
1984 · Electrician
Kortnergeschichten
movieKortnergeschichten
1980 · Director of Photography
movieWomen in Rock
1980 · Director of Photography
moviePunk in London
1977 · Director of Photography
Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe
movieNur ein kleines bisschen Liebe
1977 · Client