The positives in the negative

A woman holds a small camera close to an older woman with her eyes closed. Film equipment and a monitor are visible in the foreground, capturing the positives in the negative moments of this indoor scene.

Film capture is thriving. Whether it’s the visceral handheld of The Smashing Machine, the shallow-focus portraiture of Bugonia, the lonely suburbs of Dragonfly, or the intimate vignettes of Rituals: Union Black, filmmakers are embracing the unique aesthetics of analogue.  “There’s a lot of hyperbole about the different magics of celluloid, but I generally think the chemical process of film losing silver … Read more