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Artistry in Balance
With an instinct for collaboration,
Lifetime Achievement Award
honoree Frederick Elmes, ASC
aims to serve the storytelling
By Iain Marcks
"I have to be moved by the story, and I want to build a relationship with the director that allows me to ask intimate
questions about why the story moves them."
- Frederick Elmes, ASC
Whereas some take a circuitous route to a life
behind the camera, the path of Frederick Elmes, ASC -
this year's ASC Lifetime Achievement Award honoree -
was steady, straight and started at a young age, when his
father gave him a 35mm Leica. Raised in Mountain Lakes,
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February 2020
N.J., Elmes immersed himself in still photography, which
led to shooting 8mm and 16mm home movies, and then to
filming staged productions with friends and family.
"I grew up with movies," he recollects, "especially
Hollywood movies - musical comedies, Buster Keaton,
and Abbott and Costello. My brother and I saw The Day
the Earth Stood Still at a time when you could see two or
three movies for a couple of bucks, and I remember sitting
through it twice because I really dug it."
Elmes attended the Rochester Institute of
Technology as an undergraduate; he studied photo illustration, art history and photojournalism. His interests
began to pivot toward filmmaking during that time, and
after graduating from RIT, he enrolled in the newly established graduate-film program at New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts. There he was taught by Czech
cinematographer Beda Batka, among others, and worked
as Batka's teaching assistant and as a projectionist in the
school's screening room, called "the Bijou." Through that
program, he met future collaborator Martha Coolidge and
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