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Instantanés du jour, vendredi 19 mai

Pictures of the day

Chez Fujifilm, sur la terrasse du Carlton, le photo call spécial directeurs photo pour Paris Je t’aime. Rencontre Fuji sur la terrasse du Carlton pour "Paris je t’aime" Annick Mullatier et Sandrine Teysson entourées de quelques membres de l’équipe de "Paris je t’aime". De gauche à droite, Jean-Claude Larrieu, AFC, Christopher Doyle, HKSC, Rain Cathy Li, Maxime Alexandre, AIC et Tetsuo Nagata, AFC Rencontre Fujifilm sur la terrasse du Carlton Christopher Doyle, entouré de Rain Cathy Li à droite et de Madelyn (…)

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ACS France’s last projects

Specialized shooting

With the Shotover K1, the only 6 axis gyrostabilised head on the market: recent set up with an Alexa XT and the Anamorphic Angénieux Optimo 40-440mm, for the shoot of a feature film in the North of France. A unique set up completed with our ‘Rain Spinner’ mounted for shooting under the rain if necessary.

Jean-Marc Selva, AFC, nous parle de son expérience dans le cinéma indien et revient sur ses propos accordés au "British Cinematographer Magazine"

Press and video interviews

A l’occasion d’un double article sur le cinéma indien publié dans ses deux derniers numéros, le British Cinematographer Magazine s’est intéressé, entre autres, aux techniciens occidentaux qui participent à ces tournages souvent épiques qui ont fait la réputation de Bollywood. Parmi ceux-ci, Jean-Marc Selva, AFC, qui partage avec nous ses expériences et son ressenti sur ce cinéma du bout du monde.

Director of photography Pierre Dejon discusses his work on Just Philippot’s "Acide"
Death from above, by François Reumont, for the AFC

Conversations with cinematographers

What if rain suddenly became deadly? In the context of global warming, and worries increasing about this upcoming’s summer water reserves, this initial idea holds a meaning of its own.
This is Acide’s take, Just Philippot’s second feature film, screened during the Official Selection, at the Midnight showing, this year, at the Cannes Film Festival. Guillaume Canet plays a divorced father, living under probation with an electronic tagging device, trying to protect his daughter in the midst of a sudden eco-climatic disaster. Pierre Dejon, the film’s director of photography, talks to us about the challenges of such a project, and in particular the difficulty of filming in the rain... when it’s sunny. (FR)

Death of Bill Butler, ASC (1921-2023)
By Marc Salomon

History of cinematography

Bill Butler, who passed away two days before his 102nd birthday, was of the same generation as his colleagues William Fraker or Haskell Wexler and was hardly older than Conrad Hall. He was born Wilmer C. Butler on 7 April 1921 in Colorado. He began cinematography later in life (he was already 47 years old when he shot The Rain People, by Francis Ford Coppola in 1968), but Bill Butler left his mark on several films that remain hallmarks of a certain American cinema of the 1970s: The Conversation, Jaws, Grease, Rocky II (and III and IV). But he was careful not to allow himself to get locked into a specific genre or style, and he veered into commercial productions, which were better able to anonymize his talent.

The latest news from SAS Damien-Vicart

Camera Drones

Damien Vicart returns to one of his last feature films, which had some constraints. Budgetary, weather with rain, wind, in Paris, in long focal length, but we were able to contribute to this filming.

For Luc Drion
By Jacques Cluzaud

Luc Drion

Last Indian summer of the 20th century – Northeast United States – first meeting with Luc Drion. A few centimetres away from his camera the Canadian geese of Winged Migration were flying in formation over a brilliantly coloured forest. They flew in all weather, under the rain and the snow, in the fog, full speed ahead.

Dans l’actualité de XD motion

Specialized shooting

Dans l’actualité récente de XD motion, le tournage du défilé Givenchy à la Fashion Week 2021, l’implémentation du tracking de notre robot Arcam dans Unreal Engine afin de diffuser des images 3D dans un mur d’écran LED avec Pixotope XR, l’acquisition de plusieurs Zero Rain Deflector, et un article dans l’American Cinematographer.

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Two Pictures a Day in Amman
Semaine 9

Two Pictures a Day in Amman

Gilles Porte, AFC, et Samuel Lahu, son assistant opérateur, ont passé neuf semaines en Jordanie pour le tournage du film de Mai Masri, 3000 Nights. Ils s’étaient accordés pour nous envoyer chaque jour deux extraits du journal en images qu’ils ont tenu quotidiennement. Au terme de leur séjour, découvrez les images qu’ils ont prises lors de leur neuvième et dernière semaine en Jordanie.

Two Pictures a Day in Amman
Ninth week

Two Pictures a Day in Amman

Gilles Porte, AFC, and Samuel Lahu, his first assistant camera, spent nine weeks in Jordan filming Mai Masri’s film 3000 Nights. They agreed to send us two daily entries from the photo journal they kept every day. Their stay has ended, and you can now discover the photos they took during their ninth and last week in Jordan.

Two Pictures a Day in Amman
Seventh week

Two Pictures a Day in Amman

Gilles Porte, AFC, and Samuel Lahu, his Assistant Cameraman, are currently shooting in Jordan. They have agreed to send us two images extracted from the daily photographic journal they are keeping during the shooting of the film 3000 Nights, directed by Mai Masri. Have a look at their seventh week of work.

Two Pictures a Day in Amman
Semaine 7

Two Pictures a Day in Amman

Gilles Porte, AFC, et Samuel Lahu, son assistant opérateur, sont actuellement en tournage en Jordanie. Ils se sont accordés pour nous envoyer chaque jour deux extraits du journal en images qu’ils tiennent quotidiennement sur le film 3000 Nights, réalisé par Mai Masri. Découvrez les images relatives à leur septième semaine à Amman.

Instantanés du jour, vendredi 19 mai

Pictures of the day

Chez Fujifilm, sur la terrasse du Carlton, le photo call spécial directeurs photo pour Paris Je t’aime. Rencontre Fuji sur la terrasse du Carlton pour "Paris je t’aime" Annick Mullatier et Sandrine Teysson entourées de quelques membres de l’équipe de "Paris je t’aime". De gauche à droite, Jean-Claude Larrieu, AFC, Christopher Doyle, HKSC, Rain Cathy Li, Maxime Alexandre, AIC et Tetsuo Nagata, AFC Rencontre Fujifilm sur la terrasse du Carlton Christopher Doyle, entouré de Rain Cathy Li à droite et de Madelyn (…)

Director of photography Alain Marcoen, SBC, talks about his work on "Two Days, One Night", by the Dardenne Brothers
Under the sun of Liège

Interviews at Cannes

Alain Marcoen, SBC, and camera operator Benoît Dervaux form the team that is the backbone of the Dardenne Brothers’ films. With the release of Two Days, One Night — their most minimalistic film yet in terms of the screenplay, yet also perhaps their most visually elaborate — the chief operator from Liege shares with us what it is like to work with the Brothers. (FR)

Entretien avec le directeur de la photo André Szankowski, AFC, AIP, à propos de son travail sur "Cosmos", d’Andrzej Żuławski

Interviews at Camerimage

Né au Brésil en 1979, ayant passé sa vie aux USA, en Angleterre, au Portugal et en France, André Szankowski, AFC, AIP, a aussi des racines polonaises (par son père). Invité pour la première fois à Camerimage, il viendra présenter Cosmos, le nouveau film du cinéaste franco-polonais Andrzej Żuławski. Rencontre avec cet opérateur trilingue à la carrière internationale.

Two Pictures a Day in Amman
Semaine 4

Two Pictures a Day in Amman

Gilles Porte, AFC, et Samuel Lahu, son assistant opérateur, sont actuellement en tournage en Jordanie. Ils se sont accordés pour nous envoyer chaque jour deux extraits du journal en images qu’ils tiennent quotidiennement sur le film 3000 Nights, réalisé par Mai Masri. Découvrez leurs toutes dernières images.

Two Pictures a Day in Amman
Fourth week

Two Pictures a Day in Amman

Gilles Porte, AFC, and Samuel Lahu, his Assistant Cameraman, are currently shooting in Jordan. They have agreed to send us two images extracted from the daily photographic journal they are keeping during the shooting of the film 3000 Nights, directed by Mai Masri. Have a look at their fourth week of work.