Interview with Julien Poupard, AFC, about “Langue étrangère”, by Claire Burger

Yves Cape, AFC, and his collaboration with director Michel Franco - Part 2

The 2024 Cannes Festival interviews

Yves Cape, AFC, and his collaboration with director Michel Franco - Part 1

Interview with Aymerick Pilarski, AFC, about Abderrahmane Sissako’s "Black Tea"

AFC-related activities 

Interview with Julien Poupard, AFC, about “Langue étrangère”, by Claire Burger

Selected for Berlinale 2024, Claire Burger’s Langue étrangère (Foreign Language) crosses paths between France and Germany through a first adolescent love story. Julien Poupard, AFC, reunites with the director (with whom he has already shot several films) to bring this story of sensual, amorous and political awakening to life between Leipzig and Strasbourg. The film is in official competition for the 74th Golden Bear. (FR)

Claire Mathon, AFC, looks back at her choices in shooting Alain Guiraudie’s "Miséricorde”

“You’re not taking the road tonight?”, and now that Jérémie’s stay in his childhood village, where he’s come to attend the funeral of his former boss, lasts longer than expected. As he wanders the autumn forest in search of porcini mushrooms and pays incongruous visits to his childhood friends, he weaves a web of desires and frustrations whose threads seem to escape him. For their third film together, after L’Inconnu du lac and Rester vertical, Alain Guiraudie and Claire Mathon plunge us back into a film noir whose exploration is infinite, and whose astonished faces will mark us for a long time to come.

Yves Cape, AFC, and his collaboration with director Michel Franco - Part 2

In this second part of the long dialogue between Yves Cape, AFC, and Caroline Champetier, AFC, about Michel Franco’s Sundown, we discuss color grading, skins, neutrality, prison, the accuracy of sets, light direction... all the questions that are not just a matter of technical or aesthetic choices.

Technical stuff 

Kodak pays tribute to On Film winners at the 77th Cannes Film Festival

Here’s a full list of On Film winners at Cannes 2024! It was a great showing for film. Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best First Film (Camera d’or) along with four winners in Critics’ Week and the winner of the inaugural Audience Award in Directors’ Fortnight.

Bebob at NAB 2024: Powerful Innovations for Cameras and Lighting

Visitors to this year’s NAB should not miss a visit to the Bebob stand (Central Hall, Bavarian Pavilion, C6732). The Munich-based battery manufacturer is bringing various new products to Las Vegas and will also be providing an insight into many product launches in the near future. The overriding themes will be performance, flexibility, quality and sustainability – both in terms of powering the latest cameras and ultra-modern lights.

On Screen 

Interview with Kadri Koop: "Pierre Angénieux Special Encouragement" 2024

The 2024 winner of the Pierre Angénieux Special Encouragement Award is of Estonian origin. She has been based in the USA for 12 years, spending time in China first, just after finishing high school. This was her first experience living abroad, where she studied, learned a bit of the language and shot her first documentary films. Kadri Koop is a curious young woman, with varied experiences around the world, now working between Europe and Hollywood, where she resides and tends to a beautiful vegetable garden under the Californian sun.
She’s here at Cannes to talk to us about images, faces and zoom lenses! (FR)

Professional life 

A Tribute to Trevor Steele

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Trevor Steele on Wednesday, 20th December 2023, at the age of 84. In January 1982, he founded the EMIT corporation (Equipement Moderne Image Technique), which he ran for many years, and he was one of the most well-liked and respected pillars of the filmmaking industry. Cinematographer Philippe Ros, AFC, who was an intimate, gives us the following tribute.

Petition for a César Award for Makeup and Hairdressing

Of all the countries awarding film prizes, France, cradle of cinema, is the only one not to reward the departments of Makeup and Hairdressing. However, we all know, in our position as directors of photography, how much we owe to close collaboration with the people in charge of makeup and hairstyling. Their work on set supports the actresses and actors on a daily basis and contributes to the visual identity of a film. The AFC relays below a petition launched by the makeup artists of the AMC for the creation of a César for Makeup and Hairdressing.

Bookshelf 

Death of John Bailey, ASC, and Victor J. Kemper, ASC

We learnt of the death of John Bailey, ASC, just as the 31st annual Toruń Camerimage festival was about to begin. The most European of American cinematographers died on 10th November, in Los Angeles, at the age of 81. Two weeks later, on 27th November, Victor J. Kemper, ASC, one of the architects of the revival of American cinema in the 1970s, passed away at the age of 96. Let’s take a look back at two parallel careers that embody two different sensibilities in American cinema.

A random picture

Marcel Arnac, "La Chanson de l'Opérateur !" - <i>Le Courrier cinématographique</i> n° 22, 30 mai 1914 – Dans <i>Les As de la manivelle</i>, de Priska Morrissey
Marcel Arnac, "La Chanson de l’Opérateur !"
Le Courrier cinématographique n° 22, 30 mai 1914 – Dans Les As de la manivelle, de Priska Morrissey

A random video

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Quotation of the month

La lumière naturelle et artificielle est un problème fondamental ; sa distribution, le rythme de son apparition ou de sa disparition conditionne physiologiquement l’homme. L’introduction d’éléments esthétiques dans les circuits de distribution de la lumière est d’une importance fondamentale.

Nicolas Schöffer, "L’Expansion humaine", Le Nouvel esprit artistique, 1967, Éditions Denoël, 1970

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