“Dancing with the Stars” premiered on Sept. 26, and the two Latinas, Lele Pons, and Xochitl Gomez are holding it down, both moving on to the next episode.
08.09.2023 - 11:35 / variety.com
Christopher Vourlias When U.K. writer-director Jonathan Glazer approached Polish cinematographer Łukasz Żal about “The Zone of Interest,” a provocative Holocaust drama adapted from a 2014 novel by Martin Amis, he had a bold proposition for the film, which centers on the domestic life of an Auschwitz commandant and his family living in the shadow of the notorious concentration camp. What if, Glazer suggested, they shoot the scenes inside the Höss family home without a single camera on set? Working on location, production designer Chris Oddy and his crew built a replica of the camp commandant’s real-life house.
Then Oddy, Glazer, Żal and first A.D. Marc Wilson got to work, outfitting the set to accommodate the director’s daring gambit, which would allow the actors to move about the house unobstructed and offer a more natural portrait of the family’s everyday life. “We drilled the house like Swiss cheese,” Żal says.
“We were shooting 10 cameras at the same time. I wanted to have everything hard-wired — no remote stuff. The idea was to have no film crew on set.
Cameras were hidden, if it was possible. There was no film gear. No light.
No flags, no tripods. Nothing.” The cameras were operated by focus pullers stationed in the basement. The director and cinematographer watched playback from a control room fashioned from a shipping container nearby.
“Dancing with the Stars” premiered on Sept. 26, and the two Latinas, Lele Pons, and Xochitl Gomez are holding it down, both moving on to the next episode.
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