But even though we could shoot as much as we wanted with little expense, Werner would stop after we got one or two good takes and say, in his distinct German accent: "When I was young and working as a stone mason, saving money for every scrap of celluloid I could, I would be happy with this, with one good take, because film was like gold".
Some of the most fantastical scenes came from real life: her former mother-in-law really did try to shoot her, though, as far as curator Susie Christensen can establish, Bainbridge was not naked at the time unlike in the painting.
Mr. Polanski rehearsed his actors as though for a play and shot the movie as though in "real time," so that what we see is continuous action lasting an hour and 20 minutes, as things go from bad to worse.
In between, footage of the city post-Katrina is interspersed with grainy shots of dancers shot from above, as though from a police helicopter; opulent gothic mansions straight out of the antebellum South, now owned by Beyoncé and her band of black women in vintage lace.
Visx shares, which shot as high as $103 last year, recently traded at $14. Scavone is convinced, though, that they have further to fall.
The Nets were shooting as though the basket were waving in the wind.
It's shot as though it was made in the 1960s, but it's from 2012 and set during the second world war.
The film is shot as though it were a nineteen-forties mystery — what the French were just beginning to call film noir — edged in darkness and soaked in paranoia.
Her latest three-screen video installation, Seven, presents a sauna, a laboratory and the African wilderness apparently interlinked by an arrangement of shoots, as though stacked on top of each other rather than in disparate locations.
