American Cinematographer - September 2004 - 63
Kick-Starting a Revolution
After their
rickety Norton
500 bike breaks
down, Ernesto
and Alberto are
forced to
continue their
journey
on
water. All
the
foot
on
and
the
told,
production
shot in
more
than 30
locations.
traits
were
Peruvian
inspired by the work of
photographer Martin
Chambi, who took the camera out
of the studio and into the streets in
the 1920s. The filmmakers studied
only Chambi's photos, but also
pictures Guevara shot on the trip he
took with Granado and pictures he
not
shot
on
a
second cross-continent
trip in 1954. Gautier says the film¬
makers weren't trying to replicate
any photos; instead, they were sim¬
ply inspired by their spirit. None of
portrait shots was staged, and
most required only a single take.
Perhaps the most startling
portrait is of a man standing next to
a horse.
They are both absolutely
still, but suddenly, the horse turns
the
feet in front of
for the
ly
we
hooves
man
We
We
waiting
fog to dissipate, and sudden¬
heard the echo of a horse's
as
us.
were
it walked toward
That
us.
just materialized in front of us.
barely spoke - I asked his
mission
to
his head and the man's eyes seem to
a smile. Salles recalls that
agreed."
day very well: "We were filming in
Argentina. It was the end of the day
and so misty we could barely see 100
sequence
crinkle into
film his
Gautier is also
involving
per¬
portrait, and he
a
pleased with a
husband and
wife, both miners, whom Guevara
and
Granado
meet
after
their
motorcycle breaks down in Chile.
are
sitting around
a campfire in the desert,
talking. "I
imagined there was no moon that
night, only the firelight," says the
cinematographer. "The actors were
sitting very close to the fire, and we
were
shooting through the flames.
The four of them
You
can
see
their faces and the
flames
flickering across them, but
nothing beyond that, just utter
darkness. There is such an intimacy
between them."
The
next scene
and the male miner
ders in the hot
finds Guevara
sitting on boul¬
sun as a man
hires
day workers from a group of about
40 men. Working in extremely dry
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