Why this filmmaker matters
Piers McGrail has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Cinematographer in the Nutevio catalogue.
The essay
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Piers McGrail has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
McGrail set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Emile Hirsch
Actor
3 shared titles · Son

David Holmes
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · Ordinary Love

Lisa Barros D'Sa
Director
3 shared titles · Ordinary Love

Glenn Leyburn
Director
3 shared titles · Ordinary Love

Elliot Page
Actor
2 shared titles · The Cured

Paula Malcomson
Actor
2 shared titles · The Cured

John Keville
Executive Producer
2 shared titles · The Cured

Stacie Passon
Director
2 shared titles · We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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