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Strange Machines
The girl and her mother (Elektra Kilbey) have an intense conversation over chess.
his influences, Cronenweth says,
"Conrad [Hall, ASC] used to say a
funny thing: that there should always
be something that's too hot, or overexposed, and something that should
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be underexposed, but nothing should
be properly exposed.'
"The picture is a cerebral experience," he adds, "and the visuals
give the audience a palette so they can
then fall into and be seduced by how
clever the writing is and be led along
this journey. To showboat and do
overtly dramatic things [visually]
would have taken away from the
subtlety of the story."
Although the overall approach
was minimalistic, one very specific
choice stands out: the recurring use of
slow motion. Sections of the pilot
were shot at 48 fps so the filmmakers
could adjust the timing in post.
"There were dramatic moments
where we wanted to elongate the
experience or slow down reality a bit
to either extend the motion or give it
an awkwardness, an off-pace quality,
some kind of visual tension,"
Cronenweth says. Romanek adds,
"There are flashbacks, and I knew
that some of it needed to be dreamy. I
had this idea that because the Loop
facility was exploring space and time,
and Nathaniel was playing with that
in the storytelling, the filmmaking
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