Ep 15 - Visual Textures with Christopher Blauvelt

What does an image feel like? Is it smooth? Coarse? Soft? Sharp? Distorted? These are decisions that cinematographers, directors, and anyone else involved in the creation of a visual language for a specific film must grapple with. Christopher Blauvelt (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Blauvelt), the acclaimed cinematographer of such films as First Cow (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Cow), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_(2020_film), Meek’s Cutoff (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meek%27s_Cutoff_(film)), Certain Women (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certain_Women_(film)), The Bling Ring (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bling_Ring), and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid90sjoins us to discuss the textures that define his work and how he collaborated with directors like Kelly Reichardt (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Reichardt), Sofia Coppola (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Coppola), Gus Van Sant (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Van_Sant), and Autumn De Wilde (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_de_Wilde) to develop these images.