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Frédéric Serve

Lead Instructor

Frédéric Serve graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière in 1999 and quickly established himself as a first assistant camera operator, working with directors including Agnès Varda and Robin Campillo.

Frédéric Serve graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière in 1999 and quickly established himself as a first assistant camera operator, working with directors including Agnès Varda and Robin Campillo.

Since 2008, he has worked as a cinematographer on documentaries and feature films, including Brigitte Sy’s ‘L’Astragale’ and Licínio Azevedo’s ‘Comboio de Sal e Açúcar’, and joined the AFC (French Society of Cinematographers) in 2016. He teaches at La Fémis, Louis Lumière and the Haute École d’Art et de Design de Genève, and is the author of three books on cinema, including an essay on image composition. He is currently writing a fourth, exploring colour as a language in the Western world, the Middle East and Asia.