Premium Member Kamran Pakseresht Posted February 26 Premium Member Share Posted February 26 (edited) Wanted to draw attention to a film I just saw in theaters - Divinity by Eddie Alcazar - shot almost entirely on Kodak 7266 on a super 16 Arri SR3 Incredibly stylized film, mixing all sorts of special and practical effects and even stop motion animation. Definitely worth a watch if you like seeing things originating on 16mm. I didn’t know the film was shot on 16 until after I had watched it, and originally thought it was surely shot on digital with grain added in post - but turns out it was just natural grain from the format. here is the IMDb entry for the technical aspects Edited February 26 by Kamran Pakseresht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon O'Brien Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 There's more than a bit of a nod to David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977). I probably won't see it as it's not my sort of film but always good to hear about features shot on an SR3 and Tri-X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gautam Valluri Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 They went with the 7266 with a bit of desaturated 7219 mixed in, exactly like The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, the finnish boxing film from 2016. I remember reading an interview with the filmmakers back then where they said they bought out the entire European supply of Tri-X from Kodak, and had to even ship some from North America. Could've been exagerrated. I did get a 122m roll of 7266 shipped from Kodak last year, it took them a few weeks to deliver and it seemed like it was made to order. The film also looks like it has the Guy Maddin / Bertrand Mandico vibe, which could be a bit much for a feature-length film. As Jon mentioned above, always a pleasure to see Tri-X and SR3 features. Also, I remember Jarin Blaschke doing tests of 7266 as a negative during The Lighthouse pre-production. He claimed 7266 at 80 ISO was a far superior 16mm negative than 7222. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Kamran Pakseresht Posted February 26 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 26 2 hours ago, Gautam Valluri said: Also, I remember Jarin Blaschke doing tests of 7266 as a negative during The Lighthouse pre-production. He claimed 7266 at 80 ISO was a far superior 16mm negative than 7222. Curious about that, as far as I knew The Lighthouse was shot entirely on Double-X - here is the a quote from this article about the film choices: “The results confirmed my hunch, that nothing approached the palette we were after quite like B&W negative film,” says Blaschke. “Rob and I saw that the blottier, murkier qualities of DOUBLE-X better-suited our misty, salty, visually-distressed film.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gautam Valluri Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Yes The Lighthouse was shot entirely on the Double-X but Jarin had done extensive tests with 16mm Tri-X as well. There are some of his posts from that period on these forums somewhere. Understandably, he couldn't share the results with us but he did mention exposing 7266 (Tri-X) at 80 ISO and then developing as negative yeilded much better results compared to traditional 7222 (Double-X). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Kamran Pakseresht Posted February 27 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 27 Found the thread here. Really interesting and very cool to see this discussion for such a beautiful film. Here is quote I think you were referencing: The Tri-X results were superior in sharpness, highlight tonality and grain. Contrast was actually normal and comparable between the two. I saw the results both as prints and in a 4k DI suite at Fotokem. It's unclear how much the results were improved by the stock being Tri-X, and how much from the more moderate development. The "normal" developed double X footage showed signs of overdevelopment (especially poor highlight separation) that the 35mm Double-X did not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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