Ariane Stérin

Born in the mid-1960s in German-speaking Switzerland, Thomas Hardmeier spent his entire youth in a village named Küsnacht, which in German means “night kiss”. The name must have delighted Freud’s disciple Carl Gustav Jung. As almost everyone knows, Jung attached major importance to dreams and, as fewer people know, had lived in Küsnacht and died there a few years before.

Au milieu des années 1960, Thomas Hardmeier naît en Suisse alémanique et passe toute sa jeunesse dans le village de Küsnacht, dont le nom signifie en allemand "baiser de nuit". Un nom qui avait dû enchanter Carl Gustav Jung, un disciple de Freud dont on connaît l’importance qu’il accordait aux rêves, qui y avait vécu et y était mort quelques années auparavant.

Since Leitz, in 2011, released the complete range of Summilux-C lenses – which, four years later, was given the Scientific and Engineering Award® by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – cinematographer Michel Amathieu, AFC, has practically always used them whenever possible. Consequently, when he got involved with the Netflix series "Gone for Good", he immediately offered director Juan Carlos Medina to test the new Leitz Prime wide-format lenses which open at T : 1.8. Both men were so enthralled by those first tests that they did not even try other lenses.