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    ‘Hen’ Had a Lot of Necessities to Take Flight — and 16mm Was the Reply

    David GroveBy David GroveNovember 13, 20244 Mins Read
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    After 20 years of collaborating, cinematographer Robbie Ryan typically solely has one query for author/director Andrea Arnold earlier than a brand new challenge: “Andrea, is it gonna occur?”

    That’s the sort of consolation with each other’s aesthetics that comes after 20 years. As Ryan instructed IndieWire, “Usually, that’s our foremost dialog, to ensure we’re all gonna have the ability to make it once we say we’re. We’ve the shorthand, and we’ve finished this a number of occasions now. It’s a beautiful place to go to the place I really feel snug understanding what Andrea wants and needs and that I can obtain that for her.”

    Their newest, the coming-of-age movie “Hen,” added a number of new wrinkles to their collaboration. For essentially the most half, the movie is equally lyrical and chaotic because it follows 13-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams) searching for a connection whereas her members of the family (together with Barry Keoghan as her newly engaged father) give attention to their private dramas fairly than her. However the introduction of the fey Hen (Franz Rogowski) into her life brings a component of magical realism that slowly swells after which crescendoes in a wildly imaginative flight of fancy that turns the movie into one thing deeper and extra mysterious.

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    That ingredient necessitated a bit extra pre-production dialog than Ryan and Arnold sometimes have, however the determination to make use of 16mm neutralized many potential issues, together with the movie grain’s potential to cover a few of the VFX. “As soon as I can swing a [movie] to be shot on movie, then I take a breath of reduction and transfer on understanding that typically no matter I shoot will look fascinating as a result of it’s shot on movie,” Ryan stated. “It actually in some way captures issues and mixes them collectively to work each time. It by no means feels such as you’re having to do an excessive amount of to assist it alongside.”

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    One of the crucial useful elements of 16mm on “Hen” was the best way it interacted with pure gentle and handheld digicam work, each integral to the movie’s visible type. As Ryan identified, 16mm cameras had been made to be handheld, however with trendy scanning know-how, there’s extra out there within the picture. And the hand held facet was essential as Ryan took on a way more bodily function within the manufacturing than up to now. Beginning with the opening shot — on a scooter.

    “Mainly, Andrea challenged me,” Ryan stated. “I used to be like, ‘Oh shit, how are we going to movie on a scooter?’” Initially they put the digicam on a monitoring machine, however the outcomes lacked the power they needed. “So I keep in mind leaping on one other scooter with a man who’s in a position to scoot very properly, and I used to be on the again of his scooter filming the opposite two scooting away forward of us,” Ryan stated. “And that was loopy however enjoyable. [Arnold] brings a hell of quite a lot of enjoyable to her filmmaking. It’s by no means a boring second.”

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    Nor might following a 13-year-old with a handheld digicam present any boring moments, as Ryan realized. As a result of they filmed totally on location in an present constructing (dressed by manufacturing designer Maxine Carlier), Ryan discovered himself climbing various staircases.

    “I hadn’t finished a handheld job for some time, so I used to be a little bit bit fearful, so I purchased a brand new pair of trainers,” Ryan stated. “They usually had been my buddies. They had been important. I used to be fearful that I wasn’t going to have the ability to sustain with Nykiya, and I used to be undoubtedly getting a bit extra out of breath as I’ve gotten a bit older doing this shit, however I hung in there, and it was good.”

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    The ensuing movie finds an equilibrium between the frantic physicality of youngsters and the plush romanticism of an empty subject, and even Ryan was astounded on the capabilities of 16mm when he noticed the film screened.

    “All I can say is once we sat down and watched it within the Cannes Movie Competition on the most important display you will get within the cinema, I used to be like, ‘Holy shit, 16 millimeter appears nice on the massive display!’ Truthfully, for one thing that’s the measurement of your thumbnail to get projected up onto a 40-foot display, it’s spectacular what that 16-millimeter can do. It boggles my thoughts, and I adore it a bit. Thank God.”

    “Hen” is now in choose theaters earlier than streaming on MUBI at a later date.



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