Ye Olde Light

“My real job description is to light a set

and the ideas all come from a 300-400

year period of painting during the

Renaissance throughout 15th, 16th,

17th century in northern Europe.

All ideas about how to create

images that are expressive and

use light as the metaphor for

understanding a meaning of

what the painting or image is all

come from this one time period.”

–Robert Elswitt

Pulled from an interview with cinematographer, Robert Elswitt,
conducted by Bridgette Bates for The Sundance Institute.
Below a still from the Elswitt-shot There Will Be Blood.

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