Kees van Oostrum, ASC
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Optical Unconsciousness
When we talk about lenses for cinematography, most cinematographers are knowledgeable and opinionated.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Why We Don’t Fart in an Elevator
Our industry has adopted the opinion that, based on the legal argument of the “work for hire policy” and the contractual clause that “signs over all rights,” any principles of civility are out the window.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: The Repeal of Moore’s Law
“In motion pictures, as in the semiconductor business, the road of ‘multiplying improvement’ seems to be approaching a dead end.”
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Radical Optimism
What’s to come of our role as cinematographers? Will it diminish, or be robotized and made subservient to some master?
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Never Regret Thy Fall
As cinematographers, we adapt. The goal is to satisfy our hunger to seize new ground, to make powerful imagery, and to work without a map — or a net.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: An Artist, a Murderer and a Cinematographer
It can be said that Eadward Muybridge’s first experiment with instantaneous photography was the point at which cinematography was born.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: A Film By… Part 2
“Frankly, I am not aware of cinematographers trying to pry credit from directors, but it does occur that directors pry credits from cinematographers, including with the ‘film by’ credit.”
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: A Film By... Part 1
“A few years ago, I got a phone call from a director with whom I had collaborated on an independent feature...”
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