Kees van Oostrum, ASC
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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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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Plato’s Cave
“The phenomena of light and dark long ago inspired Plato, as he expressed in his allegory of the cave...”
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Camerimage and the Renaissance
What will become of this essential event? “The thought of moving forward without the festival and losing all that it represents hurts deeply.”
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: The Nine Lives of the Cat!
“What baffles me to this day is that other manufacturers have seemed to adopt the idea of a well-balanced camera only reluctantly and never completely.”
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Parts Unknown
“It’s always fascinating to absorb the various opinions, concerns, ways of working and more from cinematographers around the world. There’s an interesting parallel between each region’s unique approach to cinematography and the variety of food that’s served in these places.”
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Film Is Dead!
The argument can be made that we might eventually outrun ourselves with digital technology, and that we sometimes seem to bet hopelessly on a dead horse, so to speak.
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