American Cinematographer - January 1993 - 41

caught the attention the interna¬
tional community of critics, who
were soon
asking about the tal¬
ented Swedish director.

Life

changed for Nykvist: "Since then,
we have made 22
pictures together,
and he has meant

a

lot to me, abso¬

lutely, in many things, beyond filmmaking."
Bergman knows as well as
anyone that attempts to probe
Nykvist on the technical aspects of
his job are fruitless. As he notes in
"The Magic Lantern":
"Sven Nykvist had done
the lighting with that intuition
which is difficult to describe, but
which is his hallmark and makes
him one of the leading lighting
cameramen in the world,
perhaps
the best. If you asked him how he
did it, he would point out some

simple ground rules. He could not
had no wish to-describe the
actual secret. If for some reason he

-or

was

disturbed, pressurized or ill at
everything went wrong and

ease,

he would have to start all

over

again from the beginning. Confi¬
dence and total security prevailed
in

our

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Nykvist himself is almost
apologetic on the subject: "Some¬
times I'm ashamed for my lack of
technical

□

things that are coming into filmmaking. I prefer to work with as
little equipment as possible. In my
opinion, so many more artistic pic¬

□

earlier in the

□

interest in all the

new

tures have been made

history of the film industry. And
the young people - they know
everything! So it is very important
for me to have good assistants, such
as
my operator, Kevin Jewison.
This is my third picture with Rich
Aguilar, the gaffer. I have had the
same focus
puller for 20 years. He
began with me on Cries and Whis¬
pers. He has no desire to be a direc¬
tor of photography. Lasse has a
special talent for distance. I very
seldom see him measure. While I'm

lighting, he looks through the cam¬
era

and makes marks
The

on

ing relationships extends beyond
the camera crew, according to
Nykvist. He finds working with
stand-ins a slight annoyance, for
example, for it robs him of a chance

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