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Eye Piece Series

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Eye Piece: DP Yorick Le Saux Mixed Digital With 35MM and Heavy Prep With On-Set Improvisation To Shoot High Life

Filming High Life marked my first feature collaboration with writer-director Claire Denis. Part survival story and part erotic science-fiction, the film’s…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Eye Piece: Spherical Lenses and Calculated Color Choices Allowed the Visuals of Birds of Passage to Take Flight

Depicting the ancestral culture of the Wayuu—a Native American group indigenous to northern Colombia—and shedding light on their complex relationship with death and dreams, directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro…

5 years ago
  • Eye Piece

Eye Piece: How Mandy DP Benjamin Loeb Custom-Lit a Quarry, Custom-Fit a Chemistry Lab Set, and Shot a Chainsaw Fight and an Actual Tiger

I knew that jumping into the warped mind of director Panos Cosmatos to make Mandy was going to be an…

6 years ago
  • Spring 2018

Eye Piece: DP Shabier Kirchner Lensed Skate Kitchen on Wheels, But Didn’t Skate Through His Demanding Shoot

As DP on Skate Kitchen — writer-director Crystal Moselle’s first narrative feature about an all-female skateboarding crew coming of age…

6 years ago
  • Eye Piece

Eye Piece: Porto Used the “Lightest, Most Liberating” Film Cameras to Shoot Its Handheld and Long-Lens Scenes

Porto is a love letter to the timelessness of great cinema. Director Gabe Klinger is a scholar of cinema history,…

6 years ago
  • Eye Piece

Eye Piece: Fredrik Wenzel Battled Uncooperative Technology and a Ticking Clock on the First Day Shooting The Square

I got to know Ruben Östlund when he asked me to come on a scout in the Italian Alps for…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography

Eye Piece: Mirrors, Neon Signs and Other Lighting Tricks Create Disorientation in DP Peter Flinckenberg’s Woodshock

I was not familiar with Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s impressive career in fashion, but from the first minutes of our…

7 years ago
  • Spring 2017

Eye Piece: DP Philippe Le Sourd Shoots the Human Textures in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled

With The Beguiled—set at a girls’ boarding school in the South during the Civil War, and adapted by Sofia Coppola…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography

Eye Piece: How and Why I Shot My Film The Nude with AJA’s CION 4K Camera

As much as every filmmaker wants to get their hands on a 4K capture system made by Red, Canon or…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Eye Piece: DP Roman Vasyanov (Suicide Squad) on Shooting Doug Liman’s Sniper Thriller The Wall on Super-16

The shooting schedule for Doug Liman’s sniper-centered thriller The Wall was very short—14 days—and the location and conditions were not…

7 years ago