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Basic Training as a Wake-Up Call: Tom Antos’ 2Day Cine School
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the 2Day Cine School with Tom Antos in...
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What’s In Your Kit? Anomalisa Cinematographer Joe Passarelli
For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share...
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Against the Mass Production of Cinema: an Interview with Cinematographer Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle is both reverential and contrary. After three decades, Doyle’s body of work is famously...
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Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of The Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages
Growing up amidst the dilapidated colonial farmhouses and graveyards that lined his neck of New Hampshire,...
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How to Perform a Camera Test: Narrow Your Focus to Three Simple Things
“Why would I need a camera test? I’ve shot with this camera so many times before!”...
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Star-Crossed Friends: Watch Digital Bolex-Shot Short Film “You Will Find a Way”
The story of three individuals who become friends through a sudden twist of chance, AJ Molle’s...
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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...
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Two Legends Leave the Stage: a Personal Farewell to Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond
In the past month, the movie industry and fans around the world lost two extraordinary talents....
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"Lenses are the Protein You Choose When You’re Cooking:" an Interview with Matthew Libatique
You could say that cinematographer Matthew Libatique is having a banner year, with F. Gary Gray’s...
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What’s in Your Kit: Cinematographer Ben Powell
For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share...
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What’s in Your Kit: Cinematographer Laela Kilbourn
For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share...
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Should You Be Your Own DP? For Meadowland Director Reed Morano, the Answer is Yes
There is no real formula for both directing and shooting your first feature film. All I...
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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...
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Reflections Within and Without: How Time Out of Mind Rendered Richard Gere Invisible
Oren Moverman: In December 2012 I ran into Richard Gere at a party in Manhattan. We’d...
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Lighting a Glass Box: The Perfect Guy Brings Modern Noir to the Stalker Genre
When my agent first sent me the script for The Perfect Guy, I thought it was...
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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...
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Practical Shooting Lessons for All Occasions: Tips from Alex Buono’s Visual Storytelling 2
Fresh off wrapping Season 40 of Saturday Night Live, for which he is the film unit’s...
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Film vs. Digital: Is the Expense of Shooting on Film a Misconception?
You know the reasons you want to shoot your next film on film. Film looks better....
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Sight, Sound and Fury: The Tribe Gives New Meaning to “Must-See”
“Like magic.” That’s how Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy describes the intricate, lightning-quick articulations of sign language....
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What’s in Your Kit: Cinematographer Autumn Durald
For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share...
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A-List Knowledge from Shane Hurlbut: The Inner Circle delivers on virtual mentorship for filmmakers
With a little diligence and resourcefulness, would-be students can access a world-class academic education right on...
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Your Best Color: The Indie Director’s Guide to Color Correction
Sure, you thought about your edit, visual effects, and music during pre-production… but you overlooked color...
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Building a Cinematography App: How Shot Assistant was Invented
A few years ago, if you had asked me to describe my dream app—what would eventually...
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What’s in Your Kit: Cinematographer Matt Egan
For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share...
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