LENSING A LEGEND Combining painterly techniques, subtly shifting aspect ratios and celluloid capture, Pat Scola ASC and director Michael Sarnoski continued their successful production partnership to explore the last chapter of Robin Hood’s life. Having shot all of Michael Sarnoski’s…
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE: CAPTURING TV’S BIGGEST GAME SHOW IN HDR 456 contestants. Ninety cameras recording in HDR. Multiple sets. This was the reality facing the team behind Squid Game: The Challenge. And that made it one of the most…
TRUE FICTION Inspired by real events, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day follows alien arrival in the US, with Janusz Kamiński shaping its grounded, conspiracy-driven visual approach. One would be hard-pressed to find a filmmaker who has done more to shape how…
Looking back across six decades of social and technological change, Oliver Stapleton BSC explores what has improved, what remains unresolved and why listening matters. As a 78-year-old male, I would have been 15 in 1963. My role models were Sean…
LIVING FOR LIVE For the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, ARRI’s ALEXA 35 Live cameras delivered a cinematic aesthetic that could mark the beginning of a new era for broadcast production. When Austria triumphed at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in…
A DESIGN FOR LIVE As live production evolves, cinematographers moving across to live navigate unpredictability, blending broadcast precision with cinematic ambition in real time, without second takes. Live production is changing shape in real time. What was once defined by…
A HANDMADE TALE Natasha Braier ASC ADF employs expressive imagery, bold colour and inventive cinematography to construct a tactile visual language capable of containing anarchic, genre-bending storytelling. Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters is not a film that sits quietly within convention. A…
Steven Poster ASC examines how the introduction of the Digital Intermediate has shaped filmmaking and details the work of pioneers in this area. No, I did not invent the DI. There were two movies that had used this process before…
A QUIET RADICAL Her name may not be widely known outside cinephile circles, but her influence runs deep. Akiko Ashizawa JSC has built a career shaped by an unwavering commitment to the emotional truth of an image in some of…
REINTRODUCING GILEAD WITH COLOUR AND CONTROL Greta Zozula takes viewers back to Gilead in The Testaments, reworking its visual language—balancing continuity with evolution in lensing, lighting and colour to reflect a world shifting from idealism to disillusionment. I was a huge…
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