Matthias Grunsky

Matthias Grunsky (born in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian cinematographer.

Matthias Grunsky, bvk
Born
Vienna, Austria
OccupationCinematographer
Awards
Websitehttp://www.matthias-grunsky.com
Matthias Grunsky Cinematographer

His career started as camera assistant on movies in Austria and Germany, where he has learnt from cinematographers as Lee Daniel on Richard Linklaters Before Sunrise (1995) or Helmut Pirnat on Franz Antel's "Der Bockerer II – Österreich ist frei" (1996).[4] He then absolved the 2 year cinematography program at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

His first feature length movie as cinematographer was Funny Ha Ha (2002) for director Andrew Bujalski, with whom he continued to work on his following films.

Especially with Bujalksi he sometimes works with unconventional cameras. They have used black and white video cameras with video camera tubes on the movie Computer Chess (film), for which Grunsky was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Independent Spirit Awards 2014.[5] On the movie "There There"(2022), which was shot remotely under Covid restrictions, Bujalski and Grunsky employed iPhone cameras.[6]

Grunsky is a member of the German Society of Cinematographers, BVK. He won Best Cinematography at the Midwest Independent Film Festival 2019 for the musical "Saints Rest".[7]

Grunsky is working as a cinematographer internationally and on US independent films.

Filmography
Year Film Director Other notes
2002 Funny Ha Ha Andrew Bujalski
2005 Mutual Appreciation Andrew Bujalski
2007 American Zombie Grace Lee
2008 Nights and Weekends Joe Swanberg & Greta Gerwig
2009 Sorry, Thanks Dia Sokol Savage
Beeswax Andrew Bujalski
2013 Man without a Head Johnny Roc
Computer Chess Andrew Bujalski Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography
A Livre Ouvert Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond TV series (season 1) - RTS/ France 2
2015 Results Andrew Bujalski
2016 Infinity Baby Bob Byington
Saints Rest Noga Ashkenazi Best Cinematography – Midwest Independent Film Festival 2019
2017 The Honor Farm Karen Skloss
2018 Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
2019 Defiance. Three Women and the Vote Beate Thalberg Best Cinematography – History Film Fest 2019
2020 Marlene Andreas Resch
2021 Tales of Franz Johannes Schmid
2022 Bad Things in the Middle of Nowhere Garry Walsh
2022 There There Andrew Bujalski

    References
    1. Independent Spirit Awards 2014
    2. "Winners at the Best of the Midwest Awards Gala | Midwest Independent Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2019-02-03. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
    3. "FOTO Završen 3. History Film Festival - Pobjednik 'Love is Potatos' kroz osobnu priču govori o represivnom teroru". 15 September 2019.
    4. "Matthias Grunsky". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
    5. Independent Spirit Awards 2014
    6. Kenigsberg, Ben (2022-11-18). "In 'There There,' the Actors in the Room Are Far Far From Each Other". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
    7. "Winners at the Best of the Midwest Awards Gala | Midwest Independent Film Festival". www.midwestfilm.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-03.
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