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An Olympic Swimmer By Jean Oppenheimer
The Olympics are not only an international sporting event, but also an opportunity for the host city to show off its cultural and artistic side. As part of the 2012 London Olympics, and the Paralympic Games that followed, four of Great Britain’s leading filmmakers were asked to each make a short film that reflected their visions of London and the games. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay was among the quartet. Ramsay teamed with Argentinean cinematographer Natasha Braier, ADF to make Swimmer, a musically driven black-and-white tone poem that follows a swimmer as he traverses the waterways of England. The soundtrack consists of snatches of dialogue the swimmer overhears on shore and a mix of music, including excerpts from several British films (including If … and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and the 1930s song “The Very Thought of You.” “There is no storyline,” affirms Braier. “It’s more of an
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emotional journey, a kind of abstract interpretation. Some shots reflect the swimmer’s point-of-view, some are observational, and some try to convey a state of mind.” Ramsay and Braier decided film “was the right format for Swimmer partly because of the high contrast you get with reflections on the water, partly because film still captures details in the landscape better than digital, and partly because we both love film,” continues the cinematographer. “We originally had this romantic idea of shooting on black-and-white stock and playing with filters, but the only black-and-white stock we could get, Eastman [DoubleX] 5222, was much grainier than I remembered. We also explored infrared. Finally, I suggested we shoot on color stock, Kodak [Vision3 200T] 5213 and [500T] 5219, for the finer grain and then desaturate the image in the DI. That actually brought us close to the look of infrared, because we could isolate each color and change the tone in post.” By way of example, Braier points to the clumps of undulating reeds that blanket a section of the river. When grading the film at The Moving Picture Co. in London, she and colorist Jean-Clément
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Photos by Jack English and Natasha Braier. Images courtesy of the filmmakers.
Cinematographer Natasha Braier, ADF captured artful shots of Olympic swimmer Tom Litten for director Lynne Ramsay’s black-and-white short film Swimmer.
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Contents
Editor's Note
President's Desk
Short Takes: Swimmer
Production Slate: Rust and Bone • It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!
MI6 Under Siege
Ravishing Romance
Freedom Fighter
An A-Plus Event
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
2012 AC Index
In Memoriam: Harris Savides, ASC
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Jerzy Zielinski, ASC, PSC
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American Cinematographer - December 2012 - President's Desk
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American Cinematographer - December 2012 - Short Takes: Swimmer
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