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Left and below:
Rose sneaks into
a theater where
Lillian is
rehearsing a play.
Bottom: Walter
(Cory Michael
Smith) finds Rose
in the American
Museum of
Natural History.

deafness permeates the entire film in
content and style.
Rose's story in the 1920s is
presented as a silent movie. It's a
metaphor, mirroring the world that Rose
lives in. She immerses herself in the city,
but you see the city in silence, which
helps the viewer share in her perception
of the world she's living in. The story
takes place in 1927, the height of the
silent black-and-white era, coming
out of the German Expressionism
movement; Todd and I referenced F.W.
Murnau's The Last Laugh, Victor
Sjöström's The Wind, and King Vidor's
The Crowd. We tried to be true to the
cinematography tools of the time, so for
the '20s I used my older Cooke Speed
Panchro lenses, which could have been
used back in the silent films of that
period.
I lit the black-and-white scenes
with harder, direct light from Fresnel
tungsten lamps, even exteriors, the way
studio lighting would have been. I used
yellow, orange and red filters on the
camera to enhance the contrast in the
monochromatic negative for the exteriors. For interiors, I used the Tiffen
LL-D filter that I had on I'm Not There.
It was originally designed to be used with
tungsten color film for color correction,
without a stop loss, in low-light daylight
situations. Double-X negative is slower
compared to modern stocks, so I didn't
want to lose any ASA with a black-andwhite filter. I came up with the idea of
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