Philip Øgaard

Philip Øgaard

Nascimento : 1948-04-06, Norway

História

Philip Remi Øgaard (born 6 April 1948) is a Norwegian cinematographer. Since 1983, Øgaard has photographed more than 30 feature films and has come to be recognized as one of Norway's premier cinematographers. He frequently collaborates with directors Martin Asphaug, Bent Hamer, and Hans Petter Moland. Øgaard has been commended for his tasteful and naturalistic lighting, and ability to effectively compose difficult shots, often utilizing subtle but very precise movement.

Perfil

Philip Øgaard

Filmes

Doah
Director of Photography
Doah has a rare eye disease that gives her a disturbing appearance. Because of that she is being outcast by the children in the village. Together with her mother she must fight against prejudice and hatred in the pursuit of a friend.
Vingança a Sangue Frio
Director of Photography
Nels é um tranquilo homem de família que trabalha como motorista de um removedor de neve e vê seu mundo virado de cabeça para baixo quando seu filho é morto por um poderoso traficante de drogas. Impulsionado pelo desejo de vingança e sem nada para perder, ele faz tudo o que for preciso para destruir o cartel.
Obsessão
Director of Photography
Após a morte de seu pai, Catherine viaja de volta para sua antiga propriedade no período de inverno na Noruega. Quando os locais começam a contar histórias de desaparecimentos e possíveis assassinatos, ela é forçada a enfrentar o passado misterioso da família.
Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen
Cinematography
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both.
Welcome to Norway!
Director of Photography
A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.
O Cidadão do Ano
Director of Photography
Nils vive em Beitostølen, é casado com Gudrun e tem um filho chamado Ingvar, que acaba de começar a estudar em Oslo. Ele é um homem feliz aos 45 anos de idade, e trabalha como motorista de arado, responsável ​​por manter a estrada do condado sobre Valdresflya livre de neve. Ele foi recentemente escolhido como Cidadão do Ano da cidade e está ansioso para a aposentadoria e para ter netos, o que seria uma vida totalmente despreocupada. Um dia ele recebe um telefonema dizendo que seu filho morrera de overdose. O luto pela perda de Ingvar se transforma em escuridão e vingança, e de repente Nils se coloca no meio de uma guerra contra as drogas. O paraíso bonito e calmo do inverno de Beitostølen é transformado em uma zona de guerra de fogo.
Chasing the Wind
Director of Photography
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
The Orheim Company
Director of Photography
A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Somewhere Else
Director of Photography
Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastrophic chain of events besets them, it leads to break up and change. A tragicomic story that feels both familiar and alien at the same time.
I Travel Alone
Director of Photography
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagotchis, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come visiting next week - enters his life like a nuclear bomb. Jarle Klepp has to become an adult.
Um Homem Um Tanto Gentil
Director of Photography
Ulrik volta às ruas depois de mais de uma década preso por matar o amante da mulher. Entre o reencontro com velhos parceiros, a ex-mulher e um filho, ele se revela sempre humilde e gentil, mas não perde a estatura ameaçadora – um assassino que está tentando se reenquadrar na sociedade. Enquanto seu ex-chefe quer que ele se vingue do dedo-duro que o entregou para a polícia, ele prefere se reconectar com o filho que não quer saber de suas intenções.
Wallander 18 - The Cellist
Director of Photography
A Russian cellist is subject to a bomb attack following a performance in Ystad. It turns out that she is a witness in a murder prosecution against a member of the Russian mafia.
Wallander 17 - The Thief
Director of Photography
Homes are being burgled in Ystad and three neighbors form their own vigilante group. Soon Wallander is convinced the group has committed a double murder, although no bodies have been found.
Norte
Director of Photography
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
Irene Huss 2: Den krossade tanghästen
Director of Photography
A man jumps from a balcony and dies. His terrified wife witnesses the event in a nearby taxi cab. Once Irene Huss arrives on the scene, it soon turns out that what appeared to be a tragic suicide is actually a brutal murder, and the victim is one of Gothenburg's wealthiest men. When it becomes clear that a biker gang is involved, the investigation gets even more complicated and Irene finds herself tracking down a shrewd and dangerous murderer among ex-millionaires, motorcycle gangs, drug dealers, and blackmailers. At the same time, she has to deal with everyday life and a teenage daughter who has decided to join a gang of skinheads with Neo-Nazi tendencies.
A Rebelião de Kautokeino
Director of Photography
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Irene Huss 1: The Torso
Director of Photography
On a beach in Gothenburg found parts of a dismembered man's body. The only thing that is going on, a tattoo on the torso. Irene Huss finds similar previous cases that will take her to Copenhagen, where she is forced to look for a friend's daughter who disappeared. Likfyndet will be the prelude to more nasty murders that lead Irene to Copenhagen's underworld.
No Tears
Director of Photography
Magnus is a photographer specializing in family portraits. When he plans for his mother’s 75th birthday he discovers family secrets that will change his life.
Comrade Pedersen
Cinematography
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake
Director of Photography
14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.
The Crossing
Cinematography
Andreas has everything a man can wish for. A wonderful wife, a big house on the country and a great job. But a sudden car accident puts him in a wheelchair. He is paralysed in his legs and he is also now impotent. Will his marriage work?
The Beast of Beauty
Director of Photography
Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss Norway contest, and as a result both girls get more and more preoccupied with their looks. When Lotte is allowed to participate in the contest, it soon becomes clear that being too vain can be a frightening experience.
Hjemsøkt
Cinematography
A little boy sits in a small hotel and yearns for better times.
Kitchen Stories
Director of Photography
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
The Guy in the Grave Next Door
Director of Photography
Desirée, a modern librarian with urban friends and interests is visiting her late husband's grave when she meets Benny, a simple farmer. After his mother's death Benny lives alone on the run-down farm, desperately seeking a woman to take care of him. In spite of their differences the two have the dream of finding that special someone in common, and fall passionately in love. Benny wants Desirée to move in with him and start a family as soon as possible. But being a farmer's wife is not something she is very enthusiastic about. Just presenting Benny as her boyfriend proves to be an embarrassing experience. And when she gets a tempting job offer in Stockholm she has to consider her priorities carefully.
Aberdeen
Director of Photography
Após um pedido de sua mãe doente, Kaisa (Lena Headey)viaja para a Noruega para encontrar o pai alcoólatra, que não vê há muitos anos. Será uma tortuosa viagem em que pai e filha precisarão superar suas mágoas e ressentimentos.
Bloody Angels
Director of Photography
A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging.
Water Easy Reach
Cinematography
Tells the story of Almar, a young Norwegian sailor whose gold watch, of great sentimental value, has been broken. While waiting for repairs in a remote Spanish town, he meets a number of unusual characters: Windy, an Australian seafarer with unusual experiences, real or imaginary; Marta, a beautiful Spanish girl; Martha's bizarre grandfather; and two old watchmakers who are painfully methodical. It seems to Almar that real time has also stopped when his watch did.
The Glass-Blower's Children
Director of Photography
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn enough money for his wife Sofia and the children. At a spring fair a distinguished gentleman arrives and buys all of Albert's glassware. After this nothing will be the same again. Klas and Klara are kidnapped and taken to a strange castle...
Zero Kelvin - Sem Limites
Director of Photography
Anos 1920. Larsen, um jovem aspirante a poeta que vive em Oslo, capital norueguesa, decide largar a namorada para passar um ano de solidão no frio da Groelândia. Mas lá chegando ele se depara com um bruto marinheiro e um jovem cientista. Isolados, os três alimentam uma relação de amor e ódio.
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
Cinematography
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.
The Perfect Murder
Director of Photography
Film director Pierre is making an erotic thriller with his girlfriend Greta. When men start disappearing, parallells between the movie and real life becomes obvious.
Lethal Lies
Director of Photography
For the second time the two curious boys named Pelle and Proffen get mixed up in dangerous business.
King - O Rei Urso Polar
Director of Photography
Num reino longínquo, o rei Valemon se recusa a casar com uma bruxa perversa. Como vingança, ela o enfeitiça, transformando-o em um gigantesco urso polar. Ao fugir para o norte, em um reino gelado, Valemon se apaixona por uma princesa que consegue enxergar além da fera em que ele se transformou. Juntos, eles decidem lutar para recuperar o reino do rei Valemon e acabar com o terrível feitiço.
Death at Oslo C
Director of Photography
A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.
Hotel St. Pauli
Director of Photography
Jor and Gerda is a loving couple that lives together in Copenhagen. Jor is trying to make a breakthrough as a writer, without any luck so far. His struggles have caused Gerda to provide for them by selling sexual favors on the street.
The Dream Castle
Director of Photography
The families are talking about moving together in a house, and finally does it. After a year renovating, they are to celebrate their new collective. But the year living together has taken it's toll on their relations.
Farewell Illusions
Director of Photography
A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975.
Open Future
Director of Photography
A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
Hockeyfeber
Second Unit Director of Photography
Hockeyfeber tells not only the story of collisions on the ice , but also about life as it really fortoner in the tough environment amateur sport unfolding in . The film depicts the sporting community for better or worse , and shows how tough and cynical demands of athletes being when the sponsors' affection, the most important.
Fifty/Fifty
Second Unit Director of Photography
Victoria L.
Second Unit Director of Photography
The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl, suffering from a difficult past, giving her an unforgettable experience.