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‘What can we do to make this better?’ Alec Baldwin film Rust finally premieres in Poland

First screening for troubled western whose cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set takes place at niche film festival, boycotted by high-profile figures over a separate sexism row

Rust, the western whose production became notorious after the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, has been screened for the first time at the Camerimage cinematography festival in Torun, Poland. However, a string of prominent cinematographers voiced their objections, led by Black Panther director of photography Rachel Morrison, who wrote on social media: “I’m all for memorializing Halyna and her beautiful work but not by screening and thereby promoting the film that killed her.” Hutchins’ mother Olga Solovey, who has filed a civil lawsuit against Baldwin, announced that she would not attend the event, saying that Baldwin has [refused] to take responsibility for [Hutchins’] death … [and] seeks to unjustly profit from his killing of my daughter.” The sensitivities surrounding Rust were augmented by an entirely separate row over sexism in the film industry, after Żydowicz published an article in Cinematography World in November in which he praised the “growing recognition of female cinematographers and directors” but warned of a “fanatical revolution that destroys the cathedrals of art”.

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