January 2020
Letter From the PresidentPresident’s Desk: Film School Misery
“I found, in most instances, film school teaching was not always reaching an acceptable level of education.”
December 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’s Desk: Number “8”
A potential solution to how we identify ourselves as cinematographers might be to rely on numbers rather than abbreviations.
October 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’s Desk: Optical Unconsciousness
When we talk about lenses for cinematography, most cinematographers are knowledgeable and opinionated.
October 2019
Letter From the PresidentPresident’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.
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.”
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.
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