Sven Kirsten
Camera
Born 1955-08-27
Hamburg, Germany
35 credits
Read 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 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 his Book of Tiki adequately represents the visual seductiveness of this unique, never-before-recognized facet of American pop culture. When not shooting cable TV movies in Europe, Sven lives with his 9 year old son, Diego, in his hilltop home overlooking the Silverlake reservoir in the center of Los Angeles.
Not enough member ratings yet.
Sign in to rate.
Filmography
Other credits
26 credits
Mistress
Doppelganger
Bad Painter
Teresa's Tattoo
7 Tage bis zum Glück
Play Time
Der Venusmörder
Roommate Wanted
Punk in London
Beyond Desire
Heart of Stone
Liquid Dreams
Dead Island: School's Out 2
Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical
Kortnergeschichten
Grottenolm
Women in Rock
Die Traumprinzen
Welcher Mann sagt schon die Wahrheit?
Die sieben Feuer des Todes
School's Out
Love Crash
Neonnächte - Der U-Bahn-Schlitzer
Eine Liebe in St. Petersburg
Mann gesucht, Liebe gefunden
I Know What You Did Last Winter
Acting
10 credits
Hardbodies
Slam Dance
Tom Waits: Big Time
Beyond Desire
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Kubanisch für Fortgeschrittene
No Strings Attached
Cabali And The Tiki Mug Obsession
The DVD of Tiki Vol. 1 - Paradise Lost
Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe
Track what you watch
DuckTrack members see which of these they have already watched,
right here on this page.
Create a free account
Comments
0 commentsNo comments yet. Sign in to be the first.