Dutch cinematographer Robby Muller is the winner of the Golden Camera 300, the Lifetime Achievement Award, set to be presented at the 37th Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers' Film Festival in Bitola this coming September.
"With the award, the Manaki Brothers Festival in the best possible way will 'crown' the exceptional and unparallelled creative and artistic body of work of one of the greatest cinematographers of all time," the festival's director Blagoja Kunovski - Dore said, announcing the decision at a news conference on Thursday in Skopje.
The 76-year-old world renowned cinematographer won the Bronze Camera 300 at the Bitola film festival two decades ago for his work in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, while in 2002 he was named the recipient of the Golden Camera 300 Special Award for outstanding contribution to world film art at the 23rd Manaki Brothers, where he also served as the head of the festival jury.
Since he is being bound to a wheelchair, Muller is in no condition to travel and thus he is not able to come to Bitola. The award will be presented to him by Kunovski at a ceremony in Amsterdam on June 3.
Amsterdam as of next Friday will host a three-month retrospective exhibition dubbed 'Master of Light' dedicated to his decades-long prolific career.
Robby Muller, who has shot over 80 films and 15 made for TV movies, has been a frequent collaborator of German film director Wim Wenders. His other works included the hazy, yellow-tinted cinematography of William Friedkin's To Live and Die in LA, Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson, Dom Rotheroe's My Brother Tom, Lars von Trier's, Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark, and Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.