American Cinematographer - August 2016 - 42

To Be

Bourne
Barry Ackroyd, BSC brings a
documentary sensibility to the
action-thriller Jason Bourne.
By Phil Rhodes
*|*

"I

f you want people to believe what you're doing when it's
a fiction, you shouldn't be trying too hard to distract
them from that truth," begins Barry Ackroyd, BSC. The
cinematographer is speaking with AC about Jason
Bourne, his latest collaboration with director Paul Greengrass.
The feature sees the return of Matt Damon as the titular hero,
putting him alongside co-stars Alicia Vikander and series-stalwart Julia Stiles to explore the dark secrets of Bourne's difficult
past.
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Ackroyd's approach will be well known to anyone familiar
with his previous work alongside Greengrass: United 93 (AC
June '06), Green Zone (AC April '10) and Captain Phillips (AC
Nov. '13). "Paul and I are so much on the same wavelength,
there's hardly any conversation necessary," the cinematographer
offers. "The reason we get on so well is that we have a very
straightforward kind of creed, which is to keep it simple. We
both come out of a documentary-style background.
Documentary is our inspiration.
"I was shooting documentaries and some music videos
in the Seventies and early Eighties, and I'd assisted on many
documentaries," Ackroyd says of his own background. In his
documentary work, he found himself confronting difficult
subjects. One project covered the 1972 Bloody Sunday
massacre, during which members of the British Army killed
unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland; another examined the
Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people were killed in a
human crush at the eponymous football stadium in Sheffield,
England.
"My break into [narrative] filmmaking was Ken Loach

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