August 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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.”
Kees van Oostrum, ASC
August 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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?
July 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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.
June 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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.
April 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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.”
March 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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...”
February 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’s Desk: Plato’s Cave
“The phenomena of light and dark long ago inspired Plato, as he expressed in his allegory of the cave...”
January 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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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