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TheFilmBook
Nomadland - 2. Director Chloé Zhao - Terrence, Solitude, Heartland, Joshua
In this in-depth interview, director Chloé Zhao discusses Terrence Malick, her filmmaking approach, people playing themselves, the themes of Nomadland, American landscapes and her cinematographer Joshua James Richards
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Letter From the President
Letter From the President: One Big Planet
“It is worth noting that the ASC is an international organization with members in dozens of countries, as well as the first such organization devoted to cinematography.”
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TheFilmBook
Nomadland - 1. New Naturalism - Light as Nature
Nomadland by director Chloé Zhao, with cinematography by Joshua James Richards, as an extension of New Naturalism, a movement first created by Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
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Letter From the President
Letter From the President: Creation of the Image
“Much will change as a result of 2020. Some things will disappear, others will return modified by lessons learned during these past months: different, but better.”
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Documentaries Are Stranger Than Fiction
With the “creative non-fiction” of documentaries to light the way, telling us stories about ourselves, some that may be hard to watch, we learn so much about our world, and how to live in it together.
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Parallax View
New Site Pays Tribute to Doc Pioneer Leo Hurwitz
He went on to make singularly important contributions to the development of other film and television techniques through the 1990s, helping to invent multi-camera TV and what came to be called cinéma vérité.
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Shot Craft
Light Quality 101
The primary characteristics of light that a cinematographer must learn to master are intensity, color and quality. Here we’ll take a look at the fundamentals of quality.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Icebox Problems
“Even as productions are finally ramping up again, we are going back on set in full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), with each of us bringing our own 6-foot radius of isolation.”
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