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Taking on Water

Zuccarini frames
up from beneath
Our Man's
life raft.

that it rendered was fantastic."
"The most emotionally charged
moments of the film are when the
camera floats right at water level,
which was Pete [Zuccarini], or when
Frankie was working close with Bob,"
says Chandor. "Toward the end of the
film, Bob is in a life raft, and Frankie
was right in there with him. There
wasn't a lot of room, so they were only
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about 2 or 3 feet apart. We put some
plywood under the base of the raft to
stiffen the bottom up a bit and make
the camera operating a little easier, but
it was still really hard to move around
an 8-foot-diameter raft. That's where
Our Man starts coming to grips with
his mortality. Also, at that time, we
were four weeks into shooting and we
were all sunbaked and waterlogged. It's
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a six-minute take, and at one point the
camera slowly tilts off to the side, as if
someone left the tripod unlocked and
the camera is slowly drifting, and then
rights itself. It's a truly beautiful
moment, because it really reflects how
physically exhausted and drained Our
Man is. It translates to the subconscious feeling you have while watching
it."
When operating the camera,
DeMarco says, "I try to be intuitive.
The term I like to use regarding my
handheld operation on All Is Lost
is 'the curious eye.' If you're walking
down the street and you catch
movement out of the corner of your
eye, you're likely to turn to see it, and
then turn back to look where you're
going. I try to do that with my camera
operating. In the early 1980s, I loaded
Aaton magazines for a great
documentary cameraman, Richard
Chisolm, out of Baltimore and
Washington, and the curious eye was
his style. He'd be shooting an interview and dip down to a finger tapping,
a twitch or something passing by that
would be brilliant and really put you



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