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…
Alê Braga, IMAGO communication director, shares insight into the films that have shaped the work of cinematographers around the world. When cinematographers from over 20 countries are asked which films shaped their way of seeing, the answers reveal something unexpected.…
LIVE WIRE James Cameron and some of the key members of the team behind Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour (Live in 3D) reveal how cutting-edge stereoscopic filmmaking is reinventing the concert movie experience. For decades,…
THE LOOK DRIVES RIVALS’ BIGGER, BADDER SECOND SEASON For season two of Rivals, cinematographer John Lynch ISC and The Look senior colourist Thomas Urbye adopted a bolder approach to colour to match the series’ escalating drama. For the second instalment…
DESERT LIGHT: CINE GEAR RETURNS TO UNIVERSAL Held in the kind of bright desert-flecked LA light the late David Hockney liked to paint, a somewhat reconfigured two-day Cine Gear show returned to the Universal lot amidst ongoing existential questions…
ADVENTURES IN ANIMATION Toy Story 5 cinematographer Matt Aspbury discusses how he and the talented team at Pixar continue to create cinematic magic, captivating audiences with new escapades featuring the beloved and iconic toy characters. Matt Aspbury’s journey to becoming…
PUSHING TO THE MAX While Eben Bolter ASC BSC has previously embraced restraint on stunning shows such as The Last of Us, he took the opposite approach with his work on Cape Fear – which embraced maximalism when retelling the…
BUILDING THE BACKROOMS DP Jeremy Cox explains how he helped bring YouTube sensation Backrooms to the big screen in true cinematic style. Backrooms came to me through Chris Ferguson, a producer at Oddfellows. We’d worked together on several projects, so…
PUNCHING ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT While boxing films seem ever-present in cinema, Heavyweight – now available on all VOD platforms in the UK following its theatrical run – brings something completely different to the scene. Boxing has a storied history in…
SHARED VISION Riedel’s acquisition of ARRI marks the beginning of a new chapter for the companies and the industry. Riedel founder and CEO, Thomas Riedel, and ARRI’s Christian Richter and David Bermbach discuss what the deal means for filmmakers and…
LIGHTS, CANNES, ACTION With no Hollywood studio films in competition, Cannes Film Festival championed world cinema and the craftspeople behind the image. We round up some of the productions, filmmakers and topics of conversation that defined this year’s event. The…
BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL Almost four decades after Dolph Lundgren donned the Sword of Power, He-Man is back in live action with Masters of the Universe – which proved a dream come true for DP Fabian Wagner ASC BSC.…
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