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‘Nickel Boys’ Star & Creatives On How Shooting POV Meant “Unlearning Everything We Thought We Knew About Cinema” – Contenders Los Angeles
'Nickel Boys' writer-director RaMell Ross and cinematographer Jomo Fray: Shooting POV meant 'unlearning everything we thought we knew about cinema.'
Shooting Nickel Boys entirely from the characters’ first-person point of view — literally through their eyes — was a novel way to “center the experience” of the film’s subjects, writer-director RaMell Ross said at Saturday’s Deadline Contenders Los Angeles event. “It was all about unlearning everything that we thought we knew about traditional cinema and trying to reach for the oddest tools, to try to get something that felt really organic and inside the body,” director of photography Jomo Fray said in a panel discussion with Ross, co-star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and producer Jeremy Kleiner. Ellis-Taylor, an Academy Award nominee for King Richard, plays Elwood’s grandmother, Hattie, and said it was “jarring” to learn — on her first day on the set — that she would be in close quarters with the camera.
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