American Cinematographer - September 2004 - 67

Kick-Starting a Revolution
Gautier films
scene

a

strongest contrast; I used no filters,

involving

grads to soften the bright¬
and I pushed one stop."

not even

workers at the

ness,

Chuquicamata
Mines.

San Pablo consists of two

pieces of land separated by
On

one

a

river.

side sits the medical staff's

living quarters; on the opposite
shore are the lepers' cabins. On his
last night there, Guevara decides to
swim

across

the river in

affection for and

a

show of

solidarity with the

patients. Gautier wanted it to be
dark that Guevara isn't
in the water. "You don't

him
rainfall had made the

region excep¬
tionally green. It was the only time
during the shoot that Gautier used a
polarizing filter. "The Polarizer works
a lot on the
sky, of course, but it real¬
ly affects the grass," he notes. "It was
at that point that I also
got into seri¬
ous force
development, pushing one
stop or more, in order to get stronger
colors and increased contrast."

The final section of the film

even
so

so

visible

much

see

feel him," he remarks.
Gautier stood in one boat, while a
as

takes

place in the Amazon, much of
leper colony. To
achieve high contrast and create a
white sky, Gautier pushed the

second boat held

it at the San Pablo

generator and a piece of Styrofoam
bounce. "That was not an easy scene

35mm Vision 250D, an

that the boats

emulsion

"you don't normally use in bright
sunlight," he notes. "You'd normally
use a
use

50-ISO stock, but I decided to

250D because I wanted the

film

to

-

the

a

small HMI and

current was so
were

ing apart!"
The

next

morning, Guevara

and Granado stand

the river,

on

the banks of

saying goodbye to their

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