How Giovanni Ribisi Ended Up Photographing Strange Darling

Your eyes do not deceive you. Giovanni Ribisi — the same Giovanni Ribisi who has more than a hundred acting credits since 1985 — photographed and produced JT Mollner’s critically acclaimed thriller, Strange darlingThe film’s non-linear narrative is told across six chapters and explores the fallout from a calamitous one-night stand involving Kyle Gallner’s serial killer character, The Demon, and Willa Fitzgerald’s wary next target, credited as The Lady.

During his four decades on film and television sets, Ribisi took a keen interest in the work of his various cinematographers, and he credits a number of those cinematographers for sharing their expertise, starting with Dante Spinotti, with whom he worked on Michael Mann’s film. Public enemies (2009) and Garry Marshall The other sister (1999). The late Andrew Lesnie, who shot Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings trilogy and won an Oscar for The Fellowship of the Ringalso set an example for Ribisi on the set of The brother of love (2004). He then goes on to thank Russell Carpenter for their work together on Avatar: The Way of Water And Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Over the past 15 years, Ribisi has turned his passion for photography into an infrastructure designed to make filmmaking more affordable and accessible. His studio, Stellascope, also prioritizes the use of celluloid, and in a previous meeting with the ASC, [American Society of Cinematographers] Ribisi and Mollner quickly hit it off over their love of film. With his background in music video and commercial photography, Ribisi then made it known that he wanted to shoot a feature film, and Mollner began sending him a few feature film scripts until he lit up in response to a script known as One night with you.

One night with you finally became Strange darlingand once producers Roy Lee and Steve Schneider had the project in place at Miramax, Mollner managed to convince Ribisi to bring on the director of photography. The result is a 96-minute thriller shot exclusively on 35mm, and like many celluloid advocates, Ribisi rejects the oft-used argument that the technology is more expensive than digital.

“There are a lot of misconceptions about filmmaking, and that’s often the case. not “It’s more expensive when you add up the net expenses for a film,” Ribisi explains. The Hollywood Reporter. “It is not more expensive than digital because of all the extra baggage that digital carries.

Ribisi’s acting career is still as vibrant as it has always been, and while his continued ties to James Cameron’s series Avatar The movies weren’t enough, he’s now a key figure in Kevin Costner’s multi-film ambition, known as Horizon: An American SagaRibisi’s character, H. Silas Pickering, is expected to become a major villain in the third and fourth installments, and while Chapter 1 Disappointed at the box office, Ribisi is more than confident that Costner will impose his will…