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Shabier Kirchner (born 1987/1988) is an Antiguan cinematographer and director based between London, New York, and the Caribbean. He won a BAFTA for his work on Steve McQueen's five-part anthology series Small Axe (2020).
Feb 25, 2022 · Today we celebrate Mr. Shabier Kirchner. Born and raised in Antigua, Mr. Kirchner was unaware of the rules of film and created masterpieces based on his own standards. This has allowed him to go on...
Nov 17, 2020 · Shabier Kirchner, one of our 25 New Faces, DP'd Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" series, and his own short film, "Dadlie" is up now on Criterion Channel....
Jan 4, 2024 · Past Lives was released at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with critics praising Song’s sensitively-drawn debut about love and observations on the human condition, along with Kirchner’s captivating cinematography. Kirchner, now a New York resident, won a BAFTA for director Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology series Small Axe (2020).
Feb 19, 2020 · Shoutout to our wonderful DP Shabier Kirchner, who has a film in True/False festival next month! Congrats Shabs! https://truefalse.org/program/shorts/
Ranging in tone from tenderly impressionistic to devastatingly clear-eyed, these powerfully performed portraits of Black resistance, joy, creativity, and collective action—all sumptuously shot by Shabier Kirchner—form a revolutionary counterhistory of mid-twentieth-century Britain at a transformational moment.
Shabier Kirchner is the inspired, sensitive cinematographer of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – an ambitious new anthology series of five films set in London’s West Indian community in the 1960s through the 1980s and starring John Boyega, Letitia Wright and Micheal Ward, among many others.
