AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER ASCMAG.COM R ising sea levels have transformed Miami into a city of canals and waterlogged streets, and a new consumer enterprise has emerged amid the societal despair - the selling of memory-retrieval and visualization services to nostalgic citizens. It's the year 2050, and business partners Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and Emily " Watts " Sanders (Thandiwe Newton) are working with a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson), an alluring femme fatale whose desire to look into her own history kicks off a murder investigation that has a potentially dark connection to Nick's past. Central to the plot of the sci-fi noir thriller Reminiscence - shot by Paul Cameron, ASC, and written and directed by Lisa Joy - is a massive, circular holographic screen that projects memories as they are OCTOBER 2021 / 17