Benjamin B

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    November 2016

    Camerimage 2016 Program

    Greetings from Bydgoszcz, Poland, where the Camerimage International Film Festival just started. Camerimage is the biggest and best cinematography festival in the world and attracts famous masters, emerging cinematographers, film students and other filmmakers from across the world.

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    October 2016

    A Revolutionary Screening From Ang Lee

    During IBC I had the rare privilege of catching a glimpse of the future of cinema, thanks to Ang Lee and friends. The experience was at once lifelike and dazzling, visceral and natural, extraordinary and very ordinary...

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    September 2016

    IBC 2016 Photo Album

    I recently attended IBC, the best and biggest European trade show for cinema and television tools, held in the wonderful city of Amsterdam, and I wanted to share a photo album of my visit, featuring some of the people I met and conferences I attended.

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    September 2016

    IBC 2016 Preview

    The International Broadcasting Convention is the biggest and best European trade show. This year some 55,000 attendees will visit booths from 1,700 exhibitors in the 14 exhibit halls of the huge RAI convention center on the eastern tip of Amsterdam...

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    August 2016

    Cannes Seminar with Peter Suschitzky, ASC - part 2

    In this post I continue my account of the cinematographer’s seminar in Cannes, and begin a focus on his rich collaboration with director David Cronenberg with a video and some text notes.

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    May 2016

    Cannes 2016: William Friedkin’s 8 Cinema Lessons

    The director gave a fascinating Master Class, or “Cinema Lesson” in French, hosted by Michel Ciment, as part of the Cannes Classics program of the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival.

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    May 2016

    Cinematographers at Cannes 2016

    Although there are a lot of news stories about the films, directors and actors at Cannes, much less is said about the cinematographers...

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