He was a master craftsman of cinematography, framing his films with expertise, while filling the frames with unnerving, enthralling, and violent stories with a soundtrack that could leave you feeling existentially sick or high.
The same motion, or a stylized or caricatured version of it, can be achieved by "stop-motion" or "stop-action" cinematography, the frame-by-frame photographing of a similarly phased series of drawings (see Figure 9) or the phased movement of such objects as puppets, marionettes, or commercial products.
The mechanism has been studied in great detail by high-speed cinematography (4,000 frames per second), by audio (the explosion produces an audible pop), and chemical analysis of the spray.
Seoul-based German filmmaker Nils Clauss captured the the remnants of a '70s factory town with dramatic cinematography and framed around a lexicon of everyday terms that define life in that place during that time.
Along with its dramatic dialogue, "Neither" borrows many devices from cinematography, including freeze frames, slow motion and dissolves.
But a certain quotient of unauthorized excitement, in "wow" effects of what amounts to single-frame cinematography, always set him a bit apart, as did a restlessly experimental drive.
A compelling meditation on personal faith, Silence at times breaks through into masterpiece territory; Rodrigo Prieto's painterly cinematography turns some chiaroscuro frames into pure Caravaggio.
And every frame of cinematography, set design and music has been meticulously crafted like some one-of-a-kind bespoke suit of dreams.
These films could as readily have been made with video cameras, but much that happens in a movie isn't a matter of framing or cinematography but of mood and tone, a tone that's set by the director and is inseparable from the matériel on hand for the production.
