Dan Landin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Landin, born 1962 in London, is a British cinematographer. He has filmed various music videos, including ones for Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand and the Zutons. He has also worked on many television commercials, including the 2006 Sony Bravia commercial [1].
Most recently, he was Director of Photography for the new Madonna video, "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.
[edit] Biography
Together with Richard Heslop, the former multi-projection operator for 23 Skidoo, he filmed The Child and the Saw (1983) and directed the film Procar in collaboration with Heslop and Herbert Verhey for live performances in Amsterdam with the Car Ensemble of the Netherlands in 1986. The film Procar later appeared in the programme of the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1987 with a remastered audio recording of the Car Ensemble as soundtrack. Dan directed the video for Laibach's Drzava, and a filmed performance of Laibach and Michael Clark in London, No Fire Escape In Hell. In 1987 he directed Laibachs Geburt Einer Nation ("Birth of a Nation"), filmed on various locations in Slovenia and in a "Third Reich"-style, a typical pop video but with an exaggeration of certain Riefenstahl-like elements. He also directed their video Life is Life, a cover of the early 80's disco hit by Opus. For this video they filmed Laibach wearing traditional hunting clothes, posing against a backdrop of stags, lakes and mountains.
In the early 1990s Dan began to concentrate on music promotions and commercials for television.
Dan Landin has worked as Director of Photography on many videos, amongst which are Radioheads No Surprises (1997), Massives Teardrop (1998), Robbie Williams Its Only Us (1999) and Franz Ferdinand's Walk Away (2005). Apart from this, he was a lighting cameraman for the video Believe by Cher (1998) and acted in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).
[edit] Films
In 2005, he worked as Director of Photography on the Working Title feature Sixty Six, directed by Paul Weiland. Since then, he has begun work on the upcoming feature, The Tale of Two Sisters, due for release in 2008.
