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Latest articles

• Mia Cioffi Henry Crafts Naturalism in Sorry, Baby
• Lighting the Infinite: Jeremy Cox on A24's Backrooms
• Michael Bauman and the Art of Controlled Imperfection
• How Mauro Fiore Lit Avatar's Daylight Battle in Total Darkness
• How The Vast of Night Pulled Off an Impossible Long Take
• Handmade Celluloid: The Radical Cinematography of Mark Jenkin
• Saving Coyote vs Acme: Brandon Trost On Shooting Hybrid Realism
• How Jeff Cronenweth Redefined Digital Cinema at T1.3
• Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes History with Sinners
• The Stationary Taxi That Moves: LED Staging and the Illusion of Motion
• Chasing Totality: Filming Danny León Inside an Eclipse
• Shooting Danny León in the Shadow of Totality
• Framing Shadows: Visual Grammar in The Samurai and the Prisoner
• From Gaffer to Oscar: The Craft of Erik Messerschmidt
• Deconstructing Eric K. Yue's Choreographed Chaos
• David Robert Jones and the Art of Visual Restraint
• Michael Bauman Brings Disciplined Elegance to Matt Johnsons Tony
• Dave Garbett and the Visceral Optics of Modern Horror
• The Underrated Mastery of Dariusz Wolski
• The Slow Temperature Shift: How Claire Mathon and Mati Diop Made Colour Do the Work of Character