Eye Piece
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Eye Piece: Like Cotton Twines Went Digital to Capture the Depth of Ghana’s Beauty
Shooting under the blazing hot sun in Ghana’s salt fields isn’t an easy feat. High temperatures and brutal humidity can affect cameras... -
Eye Piece: Moonlight DP James Laxton Illuminates Miami’s Bold, Blue, Beautiful Darkness
Following the life of Chiron, a young man coming of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs,” Moonlight is sensitive and... -
Eye Piece: How Dystopian Romance Equals Was Lit Entirely by Luminescent LEDs
As a cinematographer, I have made several movies with director Drake Doremus, including Like Crazy and Breathe In. Those films had been... -
Eye Piece: How I Trained Astronauts to Shoot the Stunning 4K Footage in A Beautiful Planet from Space
A Beautiful Planet is the seventh IMAX film shot in space by astronauts, and continues a three-decade long association with NASA that... -
Eye Piece: Colombian Stunner Embrace of the Serpent Renders the Amazon in Ghostly Silver
When director Ciro Guerra and producer Cristina Gallego gave me the script for Embrace of the Serpent, I took my time reading... -
Eye Piece: How Sarah Adina Smith Shot Three Visual Styles in Midnight Swim
For any filmmaker, switching genres between movies is a tough task. But Sarah Adina Smith decided to switch between genres three times... -
Eye Piece: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth Wages Stare Wars in Super 16
Wielding old grudges and fierce regrets as sharpened weapons, two women reassess their friendship in Queen of Earth, an intense interior drama... -
Eye Piece: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado on the Poetic, Portable Cinematography of The Salt of the Earth
The documentary The Salt of the Earth is a film about my father, the photographer Sebastião Salgado. The film structure is complex,... -
Eye Piece: DP Rachel Morrison Goes Underground on Little Accidents
Little Accidents was a cinematographer’s dream to shoot. I have always been fascinated with Appalachia – the beauty and infinite possibility of... -
Eye Piece: Snowy Mountains, Ice Hearts in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep
Chekhovian philosophical debates filter through complex characters in Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s magnificent Winter Sleep. Like any film in the director’s...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2