DIRK MEIER
A freelance colorist, post-production consultant and lecturer, Dirk Meier has worked for companies such as ARRI, Farbkult, The Post Republic, WeFadeToGrey and Zentropa, and on films such as Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist”, Sebastian Lelio’s “A fantastic Woman”, Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro” and Roy Andersson’s “About endlessness”. He was head of UP.GRADE, the world’s first long-term educational program for color grading from 2015 to 2019 and is a full member of the IMAGO Technical Committee, the German Society of Cinematographers BVK and the Colorist Society CSI.
Before diving into color grading Dirk was co-founder of the company director’s friend in 1998 that developed a portable non-linear editing system that later became the world’s first mobile uncompressed recording system for high-definition video signals, which was used to capture the one-take-movie “Russian Ark” by Aleksandr Sokurov in 2001.
His interest in cinematography and post-production then led him to a career in color grading. Since 2005 he has been working on various grading platforms mostly on documentaries and art-house fiction feature films as well as a few series.