At the start of the digital cinema revolution, the few cinematographers who chose to work in the medium were met with a lot of animosity. Their work was called ugly and amateurish. Even among the cinematography community they were outcasts. Does this sound familiar at all? To me it sounds like all the stories I have ever heard about the birth of rock, punk and electronic music. It’s just noise! They don’t know how to play their instruments! They aren’t even using instruments! Doesn’t it make absolutely perfect sense that the film about the rise of electronic music was shot digitally? And not even smooth, crisp, hi-def digital either. The digital noise in some scenes is so pronounced that it is almost a character in the proceedings, bouncing around to the pulsing soundtrack. How’s that for poetic imagery? One revolution dancing with another. Both bouncing away with beautiful, joyous, chaotic abandon. Marshall McLuhan was right: The medium is the message.
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