American Cinematographer - December 2019 - 50

Paul Cameron, ASC employs
new tools to lend an old-school
aesthetic to the police drama
21 Bridges
By Jay Holben

In the late hours of the evening, two masked men enter a
restaurant and hold the manager at gunpoint, demanding
he take them to the goods. The robbers discover 300 kilos
of uncut cocaine worth millions on the streets. As they
scramble to pack up their loot, the NYPD shows up at the
restaurant. During the ensuing firefight, the robbers gun
down eight of New York's finest.
When Detective Andre Davis (Chadwick Boseman)
arrives on the gruesome crime scene, he knows he only has
a few scant hours to catch the murderers before they're
able to flee the city and disappear. To aid in the manhunt,
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he orders that the island of Manhattan be cut off - all 21
bridges leading in and out will be shut down, along with
tunnels, trains, river crossings and subways. It's a battle
against time to find two suspects hiding in a city of 1.6
million.
21 Bridges was directed by Brian Kirk, who has built
an extensive list of credits in the television arena, having
helmed episodes of Murphy's Law, The Tudors, Brotherhood,
Luther, Penny Dreadful, Game of Thrones and more. Joining
Kirk for this action thriller was cinematographer Paul
Cameron, ASC, whose previous work includes Gone in 60
Seconds (AC June '00), Man on Fire, Collateral (AC Aug. '04),
Total Recall (AC Aug. '12), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men
Tell No Tales (AC June '17) and HBO's Westworld. "When I
met with Brian," Cameron shares, "he said he wanted to
do an old-school, New York, Sidney Lumet type of film,
and I was absolutely on-board with that."
For 21 Bridges, Cameron chose to capture in 6K with
Sony's Venice full-frame camera, which features a
24x35.9mm 6K (6048x4032 photosites) imager. "I shot a
short film for my wife, Laura Stabilini, on the Venice, with

ASC 100th Anniversary

Unit photography by Matt Kennedy. All images courtesy of STXfilms.

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