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Director of photography Xavier Dolléans has chosen the Sony Venice camera, associated with Cooke Panchro/i Classic lenses, to shoot seasons 3 and 4 of "Skam France", the French version of the famous and innovative Norwegian series "Skam", which follows a group of teenagers in their daily lives.

Le directeur de la photographie Xavier Dolléans a choisi la caméra Sony Venice, associée aux objectifs Cooke Panchro/i Classic, pour tourner les saisons 3 et 4 de "Skam France", la version française de la célèbre et innovante série norvégienne "Skam", qui suit un groupe d’adolescents dans leur quotidien.

Ce mois-ci, deux nouveautés chez Next Shot ainsi que deux tournages, dont un photographié par une directrice de la photographie de l’AFC.

Ce compte rendu de ma visite à IBC (suite et fin) repose sur point de vue forcément subjectif. Aux annonces faites en amont de cette manifestation, j’ai tendance à privilégier plutôt la rencontre avec les exposants que je connais et les conseils de Jon Fauer – encore lui. Jon a en effet très souvent connaissance avant tout le monde de nouveautés intéressantes et de stands à aller voir absolument.

Le directeur de la photographie Thomas Bataille a photographié La Nuit du verre d’eau, de Carlos Chahine, en Sony Venice et optiques Primo Classic de Panavision, louées chez Panavision France. Il explique ses choix esthétiques pour ce tournage.

In making the decision to produce a new adaptation of the greatest classic of Swedish literature, Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe (Utoya : July 22) had his work cut out for him. Because Jan Troell already made a screen adaptation in 1971 starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman, then the two most famous Swedish and international film stars, it’s not an easy thing to make a contemporary remake… However, when you watch the film, you have to admit they’ve done a pretty good job in proposing a modern version of a classic tale in which the currently relevant themes of migration, women’s rights, and religion infuse each scene. John Christian Rosenlund, FNF, was in charge of the lighting on this saga, with an often-minimalistic staging.

Sigma annonce le développement de deux nouvelles optiques, un objectif 65 mm T1,5 FF dans la série "FF High Speed Primes" et un 65 mm T2,5 FF dans la série "FF Classic Primes". De plus, Sigma annonce que les optiques de la ligne "FF Classic Prime Line", la dernière gamme d’objectifs Sigma Cine Lenses, seront disponibles à la vente individuellement.

TSF Caméra enrichit son catalogue de nouvelles optiques aux caractéristiques particulières : une série Kowa Full Frame, une série vintage totalement recarrossée par True Lens Service, des séries Blackwing aux caractéristiques optiques uniques, deux nouvelles focales et un nouveau zoom Technovision Classic, et les Atlas Orion Silver Edition anamorphiques.

For his tenth feature film, Rachid Bouchareb decided to immerse viewers in the student demonstrations of December 1986. At the center of Nos frangins is the free reconstruction of two tragedies : the deaths of the young Malik and Abdel who became the symbols of police brutality during the Pasqua-Pandraud years. Because it alternates between real archival footage, recreated archival footage, and more classic fiction, it was a particular challenge on this film to reproduce the texture of the video used in television reporting at the time. Guillaume Deffontaines, AFC, explains how he did it. (FR)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed his new film BigBug for streaming platform Netflix, nearly eight years after his last film, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet. The latest film is an intimate combination of theater and classic Sci-Fi themes of confrontation between aliens and humans. Almost entirely set inside a futuristic suburban house, the film portrays a group of individuals who find themselves locked inside their automatic home as a result of a giant bug that seems to be affecting the entire planet. For this new film, Thomas Hardmeier, AFC, perfected a shooting strategy based almost entirely on the integration of the lighting into prop sources (with the collaboration of Aline Bonetto, set designer). A shoot that was almost entirely done in studio at Transpaset in Bry-sur-Marne, between September and December. (FR)

With Bertrand Tavernier’s death on 25 March 2021 at the age of 79, the 7th Art lost the last member of its French branch of so-called “classic” filmmakers. A man with an unquenchable curiosity and an encyclopedic knowledge, he had made himself at home within cinema, where he enjoyed both making his films and living the different stages of his life. The camera operators, with whom he enjoyed sharing books and rare, forgotten finds from screens of all sorts – as well as with his other coworkers, friends or acquaintances – were, according to this director, his allies.

Produced and starring actor Ethan Hawke in a state of grace, The Good Lord Bird is a Showtime set just before the Civil War.
Albert Hughes (who directed Menace II Society, with his twin brother Allen) directed the pilot, while Peter Deming, ASC (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive...) shot the seven episodes. He spoke with us about this film shot in Virginia, and which proposes a simultaneously modern and classic vision of a Western.(FR)

Director of photography Xavier Dolléans has chosen the Sony Venice camera, associated with Cooke Panchro/i Classic lenses, to shoot seasons 3 and 4 of "Skam France", the French version of the famous and innovative Norwegian series "Skam", which follows a group of teenagers in their daily lives.

Le directeur de la photographie Xavier Dolléans a choisi la caméra Sony Venice, associée aux objectifs Cooke Panchro/i Classic, pour tourner les saisons 3 et 4 de "Skam France", la version française de la célèbre et innovante série norvégienne "Skam", qui suit un groupe d’adolescents dans leur quotidien.

Ce mois-ci, deux nouveautés chez Next Shot ainsi que deux tournages, dont un photographié par une directrice de la photographie de l’AFC.

Ce compte rendu de ma visite à IBC (suite et fin) repose sur point de vue forcément subjectif. Aux annonces faites en amont de cette manifestation, j’ai tendance à privilégier plutôt la rencontre avec les exposants que je connais et les conseils de Jon Fauer – encore lui. Jon a en effet très souvent connaissance avant tout le monde de nouveautés intéressantes et de stands à aller voir absolument.