Alexey Rodionov - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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EPISODE 100 - ALEXEY RODIONOV - Cinematographer

For our 100th episode (we can’t believe we’ve reached this!), Team Deakins has a special conversation with Alexey Rodionov, the cinematographer of one of our favorite films, COME AND SEE. We have the opportunity to go behind the scenes on this movie and ask everything we’ve always wanted to know. The more we learn, the more our admiration for the film grows. He shares they had many limitations in terms of money and equipment, but they did have the luxury of time. VFX was not an option so they had to figure out how to do everything in-camera. Some of the stories from the making of the film are quite amazing - like the use of real bullets in the scenes. We also delve into his other movies such as ORLANDO and THE PARTY and his approach. It’s a great conversation with a great talent!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James
0:10.5	Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where
0:17.4	it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
0:22.4	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod.cod at RogerDeakin's.com.
0:34.0	This episode of the Team Deakin's podcast supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production
0:40.7	group dedicated to collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:46.4	Today, we have a very special guest. He's an incredible cinematographer who also shot one of our
0:54.0	favorite films, as we've often mentioned on the podcast, Come and See. Among his other credits are
1:00.4	the films Farewell or Lando, The Party and Admiral. We're really pleased to welcome Alexei
1:07.7	Rodionoff with us today. Alexei, thank you for doing this. Yes, thank you. We're thrilled to see you.
1:16.8	So first of all, I would like to say something to Roger. Roger, a couple months ago, I got a link
1:23.8	from one director before a link on your interview on Come and See. And really, I was so pleased that
1:31.6	it's first time I have heard something really, really sensible about the image.
1:40.1	Really? So it was so exact that it really was a pleasure to feel how you do understand what
1:46.6	we're doing. We're not doing just a good movie. We're not thinking about that. We're just thinking
1:52.0	about the sense of nothing else. So thank you very much for this. Yeah, we want to talk about it.
1:58.4	I'm glad you liked it. Good. We'd like to start by asking you how you got to where you are today.
2:04.8	What was your path? Did you start doing something else and then find cinematography or was this
2:10.2	something you always wanted to do? No. Actually, as a whole, my life, I was interested in images,
2:21.1	probably from the childhood. I remember that I built my first slide project in the age of eight.
2:27.8	Wow. From a paper curtain that lenses from spectacles.
2:35.1	Then I was trying to start painting, but I understand that I don't have talent. So it was useless.
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