Robbie Ryan - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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EPISODE 148 - ROBBIE RYAN - Cinematographer

Team Deakins enjoys an interesting talk with cinematographer, Robbie Ryan (MARRIAGE STORY, I, DANIEL BLAKE, THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES). We talk about his teaming up with director Andrea Arnold and their relationship. We go into details on the film FISH TANK. Robbie shares Andrea’s approach, the experience of working with street actors, and why a lot was handheld. He also talks about the differences between working with Andrea and Ken Loach. We also touch on his experience of working with Noah Baumbach as well as Yorgos Lanthimos on THE FAVOURITE. And we had questions about the technical challenges on THE LAST DAYS ON MARS. A fun and interesting conversation!

RECOMMENDED EPISODE VIEWING: Fish Tank

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:10.8	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:17.4	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:22.4	the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing pod.pod at
0:31.2	rogerdeakin's.com. For over 100 years, Zeiss has served the artistic pursuit of visual storytellers
0:41.3	from around the globe. Built for cinematographers, the Zeiss Supreme Prime and Supreme Prime
0:48.3	Radiance lenses provide unparalleled creativity and a unique cinematic look for your next project.
0:55.9	Zeiss Cinemat lenses made for cinematography. Today we're speaking with the cinematographer. Among his
1:05.6	many credits are Fish Tank, I Daniel Blake, Marriage Story, the favorite and the roads not taken. We're
1:12.8	pleased to welcome Robbie Ryan with us today. Robbie, thank you for doing this. Thank you for
1:18.5	having me. Very, very happy to be talking to you guys. How are you? Good, good. We'd like to start
1:26.5	with the question, how did you get to where you are today? Was this something you always knew you
1:31.6	wanted to do? Did you take another path? How did you find your path? And where did you start out?
1:37.2	Yeah, it's a while ago now. I've been doing this for a while. I've told the story a few times,
1:48.1	but it always comes back to when I was a teenager, like 14 or 13 or 14. Me and my cousins were
1:56.4	always making super-rate little films and we kind of absolutely loved it. There was no VHS
2:03.3	cameras at the time, so it was super-rate. That was the only camera that we could use. So we only
2:07.8	kind of had the sort of three-minute roles of films to create these little ideas and sort of
2:13.6	narratives and stories and we had such fun doing it and we kind of just got the bug and I was like,
2:21.5	wow, this is sort of, I just want to pursue this and we stuck together, we did a few things together
2:30.7	and then luckily I went to a film school and I went to a place called Donnery College of Art and
2:34.9	Design which was great. It was a very small little college and the film course was really,
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