Eye Piece
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Eye Piece: How DP Daniella Nowitz of Live Cargo Captured a Surreal Bahamas in Black and White
Producer Thymaya Payne, during an initial phone call about our film Live Cargo, cut to the chase: “We’re shooting on the island... -
Eye Piece: Dark Night Used Streetlights and Neon Signs to Give Natural Darkness a Haunting Glow
We shot Dark Night in June of 2015, in Sarasota, Florida: It was very hot and right in the middle of the rainy... -
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,...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s...