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“I believe on the film as a poetic medium. I don’t think it competes with painting, or ballet – the visual side of films is a key to poetry … The danger in the cinema is that you see everything, because it’s a camera. So what you have to do is to manage to evoke, to raise up things which are not really there.” Orson Welles, 1964
Land of Plenty
Director: Wim Wenders
Production: Reverse Angle Berlin, InDigEnt New York
Format: DV 25p
Award: Nominated for Best Camera German Film Award 2005
“Richly colored lensing, beautifully corrected and executed entirely with handheld digital cameras by newcomer Franz Lustig, also impresses, creating a flattened effect that gives the pic a jaunty, comicbook quality.”
Variety, Sep 14, 2004
Don’t Come Knocking
Director: Wim Wenders
Production: Reverse Angle, Berlin
Format: 35mm anamorphic cinemascope
Award: European Film Award Best Cinematographer 2005
“Lustig’s widescreen vistas possess masterly depth and clarity, but his most affecting contributions are tableaus of Butte, the clean geometry pulsing with the longings of Edward Hopper’s lone souls.”
Boxoffice Magazine, May 2005
Palermo Shooting
Director: Wim Wenders
Production: Neue Road Movies, Berlin
Format: S-35mm/S-16mm
“For the 3rd time Franz Lustig is the eye of Wenders. Again he captures terrific images, shot on 35mm in Düsseldorf and S-16 handheld camera in Palermo.”
Dieter Oßwald, 2008
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” Orson Welles