American Cinematographer - October 2015 - 73
Time Out of Mind unit photography by Alison Rosa, courtesy of IFC Films. 99 Homes unit photography by Hooman Bahrani, courtesy of Broad Green Pictures.
Cinematographer
Bobby Bukowski
(this page, bottom)
captures portraits
of poverty in the
USA in Oren
Moverman's Time
Out of Mind
(opposite) and
Ramin Bahrani's 99
Homes (this page,
top).
99 Homes is Bukowski's first
outing with Ramin Bahrani, known for
Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo
and At Any Price. Playing at the quicker
pace of a thriller, 99 Homes examines
themes of poverty and income inequality similar to those of Time Out of Mind,
but in a story targeting the housing bust.
After an unemployed construction
worker (Andrew Garfield) is evicted
along with his mother (Laura Dern)
and son, he takes a job with the very
real-estate agent (Michael Shannon)
who evicted him. But it's a Faustian
bargain, as he gets sucked into the foreclosure scams and heartlessness that
enable a few to profit from the misery of
many. Filmed over 30 days on practical
locations in New Orleans - standing
in for Florida - 99 Homes was captured
on an Alexa Plus in ProRes 4:4:4 to
onboard SxS Pro Cards.
American
Cinematographer:
What motivated you to use a Hawk VPlus 300-900mm [T4] anamorphic
zoom for Time Out of Mind?
Bobby Bukowski: Actually, it
was our lens for 75 percent of the film;
the others were a 45-90mm [T2.8] and
an 80-180mm [T2.8]. We needed a
wider lens for some interiors - in the
homeless shelter, for instance. But the
conceit of this movie was that [the main
character, George,] is a man who's invisible. It wasn't Oren's intention to tell the
story through George's perspective,
because he's kind of anonymous, but
through everyone looking at him - the
viewers' perspective.
We wanted to throw Richard
Gere, a recognizable actor, in the river of
New York City - just throw him in the
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tumult, the chaos, then stand back and
watch him behave. Early on, Richard
was thinking, 'This is impossible, people
are going to recognize me.' We said,
'Let's shoot a test.' We sat in a Starbucks
and put him in the middle of Astor
Place at rush hour in costume - his
hat, his bedraggled coat. He stood there
with a cup and begged for change for 45
minutes. Nobody recognized him. We
were very happy that the idea would
work.
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October 2015
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