American Cinematographer - January 2001 - 32

ment's

permission - did not endear him
regime. Arenas was 14

to the Castro

when the Communists

and he

was

came to power,
20 when his first novel,

Singing From the Well, was published in
subsequently published eight
novels outside of Cuba, many of which
were internationally acclaimed and all of
Cuba. He

which

were

Arenas

USA

Ph.(310)581-9276
Fax(310)581 -9278
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banned in his native country.

imprisoned for two years as
of the state in El Morro, home
to Cuba's roughest criminals, before he
was expelled to America via the Mariel
boat lift, which deposited thousands of
an

was

enemy

Cuban "undesirables" in Florida in 1980.
Arenas

eventually settled in New York,
was diagnosed with AIDS; he

where he

committed suicide in 1990.

S [LING YOUR
CIS AND SERV
S A FULL-TIME 0

Based

on

Arenas's memoir of the

Before Night Falls surveys
these events and marks the second
same name,

directorial effort of Julian Schnabel, the

renowned

painter and sculptor who took

his first steps as a filmmaker in 1996
with another portrait of an artist,

Basguiat. Schnabel maintains that he
photography - he's

knows little about
never even

owned

a camera

-

and says

he wanted to try some visual
in Before Night Falls that

strategies
he didn't
attempt in Basquiat. One result was that
the show's original cinematographer was
soon dismissed; Schnabel subsequently
recruited his camera operator, Guillermo
"Memo" Rosas, and cinematographer
Xavier Perez Grobet to act as co-directors
of

photography.
Thanks to Mexico's

burgeoning
industry, Grobet and Rosas had
already worked together several times,

film

and both

cameramen

lated credits

on

had also

accumu¬

major U.S. productions

shot in their country. Rosas, who directed
and photographed documentaries for 20
years, was a camera operator on

such

films

Titanic, Stigmata and Romeo +
Juliet. Grobet, a graduate of the Mexico
as

Cinematography Institute, started out as
a camera assistant on Revenge and
Total Recall before making his debut as
director of photography on Carlos
Carrera's Benjamin's Woman in 1990. His
credits include Mexico's 1999 box-office
hit Sex, Shame & Tears, directed
Antonio Serrano.

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