American Cinematographer - December 2003 - 81

Opposite: Young
Navajo boxer
Black Cloud

(Eddie Spears)
whiles away an
afternoon on the
reservation with
Sammi (Julia

Jones) in Black
Cloud, an

independent film
based

on a

true

story. This page,
left: While

filming
traditional

dancing, the
filmmakers

augment firelight
with

some

fixtures of their
own.

Below: On

the last

day of

the shoot, the
crew

amid

perseveres
fierce

a

sandstorm.

Cinematographer
Steve Gainer is

manning the
camera,

which is

tightly wrapped
in a space
blanket to keep
out sand.

rock

"I got

close a few times,"
"I played in a lot of
bands, I hung out with lots of
star.

Gainer says.

famous musicians, but I never made
it
and I'm so happy I didn't. The
-

career

that I moved into is

so

much

artistically fulfilling than
drinking beer and slamming power
more

story unfold

through the magic of a
great
cinematographer? Those
images can alter your mood; you can
go into the theater cranky, watch a
film shot by Roger Deakins [ASC,
BSC], and walk out floating."
Gainer began working toward
his goal by sweeping the floors in the

camera

department at Paramount.

Within six

months, he became head

of its film lab. "I spent

time with

many great cinematographers and
watched them work. It was a great

film school for
the

me,

because I

was

in

big leagues as an observer."
Several years later, Gainer

chords."
After

ditching his rock 'n' roll
lifestyle (he recalls waking up one
morning on a friend's sofa with his
clothes in a Hefty bag, seeing "the age
of 30 rushing at me like an aster¬
oid"), Gainer

PJaocenld.

TFRicuolvmulerftsresy
Phot s

ed

be

soon

realized he want¬

cinematographer. "From
a PA and editing
infomercials, I started getting an
to

a

working

as

awareness

of the functions of

most

positions on a motion-picture set,"
he says. "I noticed that the person
who had the greatest creative control
but didn't have his neck on the chop¬
ping block was the director of pho¬
tography. What's more captivating
and enlightening than watching a
American

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