BAILEY, BERT. See entry in Australian section.
BOLLINGER, ALUN (1948– ). Alun Bollinger has worked as camera operator, cinematographer, and director of photography on many films since the resurgence in filmmaking in the late 1970s, and has the reputation of being one of New Zealand’s leading cinematographers. Certainly, he has worked with many significant filmmakers. He began as cinematographer for Geoff Murphy’s Wild Man (1977), then Murphy and John Clarke’s Dagg Day Afternoon (1977), then teamed up with Murphy again for Goodbye Pork Pie (1980). Bollinger was cinematographer for Middle Age Spread (1979) and later renewed the association with Gaylene Preston as camera operator for Mr. Wrong (1985) and Bread and Roses (1994), and again as cinematographer for War Stories (1995) and Perfect Strangers (2003). With Paul Maunder, he was cinematographer for Sons for the Return Home (1979), and also for John Laing’s Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980).
Bollinger was cinematographer for Vincent Ward’s Vigil (1984), and Ian Mune’s Came a Hot Friday (1985) and The End of the Golden Weather (1991), and was camera operator for What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted (1999). He was the New Zealand director of photography for Roger Donaldson’s No Way Out (1987), and camera operator for Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993). Bollinger worked as cinematographer with Peter Jackson on Heavenly Creatures (1994), the mockumentary Forgotten Silver (1995), and The Frighteners (1996), and continued this association as director of photography for the second unit of both Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (see LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY).
Other camera operator credits include Heart of the Stag (1984), and cinematographer credits include For Love Alone (1986), A Soldier’s Tale (1988), Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995), and Woundings (1998).