
'Nomadland' Dir Chloé Zhao & DP Joshua James Richards
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Empire: A Road Film
The film is based around a road trip in France. The story itself is complex and france journeys are too. Did you shoot chronological? No no it's all based on weather and nomad availability yeah. Was there an evolution of your cinematography to reflect this landscape or was that just baked into the story? Yes, i can't claim to have planned any sort of visual aggression um other than when we arrived at empire when Chloe and I first scouted empire they'd been fire-ravaged.
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