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David Claessen
Dutch cinematographer and director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Claessen is a Dutch cinematographer and director.
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Education
Claessen attended the Netherlands Film Academy (Dutch: Nederlandse Filmacademie) in Amsterdam.
Films
In 1983, he shot Haute Mer, directed by French filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky.[1]
In 1997 Claessen met director Julie Dash. They have collaborated on four films together: including the award-winning The Rosa Parks Story, Love Song (2000), Brothers of the Borderland (2004), and Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (2016).[2]
Personal life
In 1986, Claessen moved to the United States where he met Whoopi Goldberg during production of a documentary entitled Who Are They? They married in September 1986 and divorced two years later.[3] Claessen married American writer and photographer Taiye Selasi in 2013; the couple divorced in 2015.[4]
References
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