“A combination between Warhol silkscreens and his screen tests informed how I would shoot the interviews,” Lachman explains. They cross-pollinated with experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas and pop artist Andy Warhol and his Factory scene.Ĭale, Tucker and Factory star Mary Woronov are among the people Haynes interviewed for the film. The Velvet Underground inserts the viewer into the visual and sonic milieu from which the band sprang: low-rent Manhattan warrens of the mid-‘60s, where Reed combined energies with musicians John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker, and-for a time-German vocalist and model Nico. So, for me, all films are documentation.” Where they hit the light, how the camera moves, you’re documenting something in time and space.
“You’re working with an actor, but no performance is ever the same. “I have to say, for me, there’s no difference… I always say, in a weird way, all films are documentations, even in a narrative form,” Lachman tells Deadline. He says he doesn’t alter his approach to photography based on whether a film is fiction or otherwise. Over the course of his long career, Lachman has shot documentaries and scripted films, and earned Oscar nominations for two of Haynes’ dramatic features, Carol (2015), and Far From Heaven (2002). The Velvet Underground's Influence On Director Todd Haynes’ Film Went Far Beyond The Band’s Music - Contenders Documentary Cinematographer Ed Lachman Apple Original Films
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