Steadywing – the camera choice of Helmrich
Below you find the praise of the camerawork of Dutch director Helmrich, who won the main prize at idfa for his “Position among the stars”. He and many other masterclasses are to be found and looked at on idfa.nl – “on demand”. Take a look and here is a small text from the very same site about Helmrich’s camera. There you can also see how the steadywing looks like:
Position Among the Stars concludes Dutch director Retel Helmrich’s Indonesian trilogy about the Christian-Islamic family the Sjamsuddins. Helmrich (b. 1959) filmed this and the preceding installments (The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon) (PHOTO) using the Single Shot Cinema technique, a style he developed and perfected himself. He chooses to actively engage with his subject rather than remaining a neutral outsider – a position that typifies Direct Cinema. He aims to record events from the inside, not observe from a distance.
To achieve this, Retel Helmrich created the Steadywing, a construction that allows the filmmaker to move the camera continually in an exceptionally fluid and intuitive way – as he did among the family members featured in his trilogy. Helmrich’s invention has proved to be an inspiration for an entire generation of young filmmakers. He gives master classes all over the world, and this year he is coming to IDFA. For more information, go to www.singleshotcinema.com.
http://www.idfa.nl/nl/idfatv/idfa-2010/on-demand/masterclass-leonard-retel-helmrich.aspx
