Mátyás Erdély - Cinematographer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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EPISODE 150 - MÁTYÁS ERDÉLY - Cinematographer

Team Deakins speaks with Hungarian cinematographer, Mátyás Erdély (SON OF SAUL, SUNSET, THE NEST) in this episode. Matyas has shot in the US, UK and Hungary and says he doesn’t feel there is much difference in his work wherever he works. He shares that he feels it is soul crushing to take a project just for the money if it is something you don’t connect with. He also goes into detail about his collaboration with Lazlo Nemes (SON OF SAUL, SUNSET) (Episode 113 of Team Deakins) and how they began thinking they would shoot SON OF SAUL on Steadicam but how and why changed their minds. He also shares how they chose lenses with the guiding core idea of using the limitation of visual information by focus. And we learned how he and Lazlo approached their next collaboration on the film SUNSET differently. A great conversation with a talented cinematographer!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:10.0	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.5	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:21.6	the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod.cod
0:30.2	at RogerDeakin's.com. For over 100 years, Zeiss has served the artistic pursuit of visual
0:39.3	storytellers from around the globe. Built for cinematographers, the Zeiss Supreme Prime
0:46.1	and Supreme Prime Radiance lenses provide unparalleled creativity and a unique cinematic
0:53.1	look for your next project. Zeiss Cinemat lenses made for cinematography.
1:02.1	Today we have the pleasure of speaking with a cinematographer. His credits include The
1:06.8	Quiet Ones, Sunset, Sun of Saul and the Nest. We're happy to welcome Matthias Airday
1:14.3	today. Matthias, thank you for doing this. Thank you so much. It's such an honor to talk to you guys.
1:20.3	Thank you. Great to see you again. We're going to start with a question. How did you get to where
1:27.3	you are today? What was the path that you followed? Was this something you always knew you wanted
1:31.3	to do? Did you take another path? How did you get here? I think I realized this is what I wanted
1:38.3	to do fairly early on. My family background is, I mean, we have a lot of artists in our family.
1:46.3	My grandfather on my father's side was a very influential artist. He was basically one of the most
1:58.3	influential and most charismatic figures of the Hungarian avant-garde. And he was this, I would
2:06.3	say, a Renaissance man. He was an architect. He was an opera singer. He was a poet. He was a
2:12.3	filmmaker. He was this, and he was, I think most important, he was a teacher. He had a group
2:21.3	of, a big group of people, basically, around him. And he had this workshop type of things
2:30.3	that he basically was all about creativity and how to use your creativity, that sort of thing.
2:39.3	And it was in the, you know, during communist times in the 70s and 80s in Hungary. So it was very important
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