AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER THEASC.COM Above: The overhead lighting scheme for a rooftop set. Right: A diamond-shaped rig with four Arri SkyPanel S360-Cs and four Robe BFML Blade moving heads helped capture exteriors on the production's Chinatown set, which was constructed at Origo Studios in Budapest. Period Haze Guided by production designer Drew Boughton and supervising art director Zsuzsa Kismarty-Lechner, the production bashed together a squalid 1970s New York using interior and exterior sets left over from previous productions - including The Alienist - or built from the ground up on location and on stages around Hungary, then enhanced these with digital backgrounds. Additional photography was done on the New York Street at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Rokseth recalls that textures and colors for The Continental were pulled from hazy photographs of New York City in the 1960s and early '70s, when air pollution was so severe that the skies snowed ash and rained acid. NOVEMBER 2023 / 29 BOTTOM PHOTO COURTESY OF PÅL ULVIK ROKSETH / LEVI TRØYTE GAWRON.http://www.THEASC.COM