Our friend Nigel Buesst. A friendship of so many years, 62 years since we first met. Plenty of water under the bridge. Nigel at home with his minder, Jedda photo by Ivan Gaal I was just starting out in my life as a filmmaker, working at the State Film Centre in the library section. One day I was on counter duties, receiving films returning from borrowers and handing out films to other borrowers. In walked Nigel with a bundle of films under his arm, returning them from a film society he was involved with at the time. I think it was the CSIRO film group and Nigel was collecting another bundle which they would run in an upcoming programme. A short conversation of a few minutes at the counter established that we were both interested in making films and soon enough we became close friends. Nigel was about to shoot “Fun Radio” which was a real buzz for me. He asked me to shoot a few shots from his fancy sports car so I got to operate his new Bolex camera for a tracking shot or two as ...
Invisible wires suspended from drones? You can make anything 'invisible' with today's technology. The other possibility is they were in a studio suspended from wires and the rest (the fields etc) was rotoscoped.
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ReplyDeleteThank you Peter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-c601_uIE
ReplyDeleteJust as I thought - wires.
DeleteThanks for all those comments... Fred's is very helpful:
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