Artist and social activist Alaa Wardi created this charming multi-screen & muti-track video ridiculing the Saudi ban on woman drivers, in an adaptation of Bob Marley’s classic No Woman No Cry. __ watch on YouTube +++
Oct 292013
Oct 282013
Patrick van Weeren sent me a link to his write-up of the Vienna Imago Inspiration event, complete with some film clips. +++ LINK Inspiration photo album +++
Oct 232013
I went to Vienna for the 2013 Imago Inspiration event, which focused this year on the director/cinematographer “couple”. I took the photos below of some of the 130 attendees. We saw presentations by: Director Christine Jeffs & her husband cinematographer John Toon, moderated by Richard Andry Director Peter Weir & cinematographer Russell Boyd, moderated by [...]
Oct 162013
Je viens de recevoir cet ouvrage élégant de mon ami Philippe Rousselot. I just received this elegant book, written by my cinematographer friend Philippe Rousselot, as part of a series entitled “wisdom of a métier”. +++ Vous pouvez le commander ici You can order it here +++ My translation of the excerpt on the back [...]
Oct 122013
The Coen brothers’ brilliant film Inside Llewyn Davis, shot by Bruno Delbonnel, can be defined by 3 record album covers: The story of a failed folk musician who tries to break through in Greenwhich village in the 1960s was loosely based on David van Ronk’s book, The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir. The film’s [...]
Oct 102013
— I wrote an article on 4K and better pixels for my blog on theasc.com I discuss: – 4K and UHD – 6 factors for better pixels – Arri’s 2.8K – Sony’s 4K and UHD – futures – the challenge to theaters – compression & Rec 2020 – upconversion – image quality +++
Oct 102013
This video is a wonderful example of on-set special effects. The reaction shots of the bystanders are priceless. A very innovative promo for the movie Carrie made on YouTube +++
Oct 032013
Kris Prygrocki of Red US gave me a nice demo of the brand-new Red Dragon camera at IBC. ___ Here are my notes: Dragon sensor is 10% larger than the Mysterium-X Dragon sensor diagonal is 34.5mm versus 29 mm for the Mysterium-X (35mm full frame is 40.5mm) – This means there will less cropping if [...]
Oct 012013
— In this video writer/Director Paul Schrader wears a silly multi-camera outfit and muses that constant technological change of cinema’s form may prevent good films full of content. If the form is changing, content can’t stabilize You can’t make a revolutionary film in the middle of a revolution My concern is that this period of [...]
Sep 282013
I took this grainy photograph of the 2 cinematographers at the 2007 Camerimage festival in Lodz. +++ Christopher speaks about Harris in a video interview I did with him +++ My brief tribute to the late Harris Savides with links +++