{"id":14509,"date":"2021-11-22T01:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/?p=14509"},"modified":"2021-11-22T01:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:24:39","slug":"filming-belfast-meant-scaling-down-for-emotion-haris-zambarloukos-tells-camerimage-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/filming-belfast-meant-scaling-down-for-emotion-haris-zambarloukos-tells-camerimage-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25Filming \u2018Belfast\u2019 Meant Scaling Down for Emotion, Haris Zambarloukos Tells Camerimage Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinematographer\u00a0Haris Zambarloukos\u00a0has taken on ambitious visions for his longtime director comrade\u00a0Kenneth Branagh, from the opulent pre-war world of Agatha Christie\u2019s \u201cDeath on the Nile\u201d and \u201cMurder on the Orient Express\u201d to the excesses of \u201cSleuth.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for the duo\u2019s new film \u201cBelfast,\u201d based on Branagh\u2019s childhood home and his family\u2019s encounters with \u201cthe Troubles\u201d of sectarian conflict there, they took a different approach, Zambarloukos says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case it really was a more personal experience,\u201d the DP told an audience at the\u00a0EnergaCamerimage Film Festival\u00a0of cinematography in Torun, Poland, which he and Branagh attended in person.<\/p>\n

\u201cSets were a little bit more open,\u201d said Zambarloukos. \u201cWe left a little bit more chance for things to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Indeed, some of the most compelling images in \u201cBelfast\u201d were improvised, said Branagh, citing an almost magical vision of the hospital bed of Buddy\u2019s dying grandfather, framed by a reflection of two nurses, suggesting a vision through a veil.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWriting it from a distance of 50 years and determined to see it all from the perspective of a 9-year-old boy, I knew it wouldn\u2019t be objective truth,\u201d says Branagh. \u201cIt didn\u2019t need to be a documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Buddy, the \u201cBelfast\u201d protagonist, sees his world \u201cthrough movies, through football, through religion.\u201d Whether a fire-and-brimstone sermon, a \u201cStar Trek\u201d episode or the shootout climax of \u201cHigh Noon,\u201d Buddy\u2019s world is one where heroes often step in to save the day.<\/p>\n

Zambarloukos films him drawing a fork in the road, trying to work out the path of righteousness, and dragging his skeptical grannie along with the family to see \u201cChitty Chitty Bang Bang,\u201d a world so wondrous it appears in color.<\/p>\n

Zambarloukos argues that filming in black-and-white can be a powerful way to focus the audience on emotion rather than the physical environment of the world on screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not so much the esthetic but the emotional aspect of black and white that we were interested in for this film. With black and white you get a more lucid, intense emotion from the performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Branagh added that his childhood memories of gray Northern Ireland do seem monochrome mostly. \u201cFor me, color came from what was in my imagination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelfast\u201d opens with an event in Buddy\u2019s life that turns it upside down. One moment he\u2019s playing out swashbuckler fantasies with his mates in the street in front of his family\u2019s rented row house and the next he\u2019s staring at a violent mob out to terrorize his Catholic neighbors.<\/p>\n

Branagh and Zambarloukos took on a challenging shot to convey Buddy\u2019s confusion, the camera circling him, showing both peaceful community and the growing threat of fire bombs and flying bricks before him.<\/p>\n

A technically demanding shot that would normally require careful prep, lighting and a large crew, Zambarloukos was able to get it in three takes \u2013 the first of which made it into the film.<\/p>\n

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A less experienced director would have found the shot challenging even with a full crew, says Zambarloukos. \u201cThat\u2019s the genius of Kenneth.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their desire to film again so soon after the end of COVID lockdown, says Zambarloukos, the team decided to work with minimal crews and eliminate all but the essential shooting gear \u2013 available light whenever possible \u2013 and real locations mainly in Surrey, England, rather than Northern Ireland with Zambarloukos filming himself, instead of overseeing camera operators.<\/p>\n

Shooting this way also helped achieve an intimate, personal film shot in longer takes and embracing a more organic pace.<\/p>\n

Rather than scene coverage with three cameras, Zambarloukos\u2019 shots needed to carry the family dynamics and tensions in just one longer take with perhaps a single reverse shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was such a personal story,\u201d said Zambarloukos. \u201cHe was sharing something with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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