BENOIT DELHOMME

BENOIT DELHOMME

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Award-winning Cinematographer of At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe
The Theory of Everything starring Eddie Redmayne · The Scent of Green Papaya · Minamata
Artist Painter · Director

If you want to do your art well, you need to have some pleasure. If talking is not a pleasure, it's horrible. And when filming on a set is a bad experience, it's one of the worst things in life. As a cinematographer, if you can't make what you do personal to you, there is no soul. You need to make it personal. I certainly like a handheld camera, It's a bit like playing a saxophone. It's like the pace of walking or how I stop or I decide to go closer to the actor or to take more distance is so free. No one is telling me to go one step forward or one step back. I have to decide on the spot. So there certainly a freedom like a painter with a brush. It's nice because you have even the vibrations, your rhythms, the actor's rhythms. It's this dance.

ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON

ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON

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Icelandic Writer & Documentary Filmmaker
On Time and Water · The Casket of Time · LoveStar · Not Ok · The Story of the Blue Planet

A letter to the future
Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier.
In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.
This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.
Only you know if we did it.

If you look at the Himalayas, the frozen glaciers are feeding 1 billion people with milky white water. The real tragedy is if the Himalayan glaciers go the same way as Iceland. In many places in the world, glaciers are very important for agriculture and the basic water supply of people.

MANUELA LUCÁ-DAZIO

MANUELA LUCÁ-DAZIO

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Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
Fmr. Executive Director of Venice Biennale (Dept. of Visual Arts & Architecture)

When I started and I had to decide what to do in life - because I was working with museums, in exhibition design, and on the restoration of buildings - and then at some point, I had the chance to arrive at the Venice Biennale and my whole perspective changed. And it changed because I was working with living artists and architects. Until that moment, I was working around Old Masters, works in museums, and things that were there with the aura of history. And all of a sudden I was dealing with living architects and artists, and this was, for me, the most incredible experience. So I decided to leave all the rest, because I was doing quite a lot at the same time, and to concentrate on the Biennale.

PETER NICHOLS

PETER NICHOLS

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Author of Granite Harbor · The Rocks · Voyage for Madmen & other books

Although I’m American, I was brought up in England and Europe, and I prefer living in Europe, but I currently live in the United States to be close to my son. I like Maine and have chosen to live here because it seems to me a throwback version of the US, not overrun with strip malls and box stores and the rest of the visual crud of the USA. It’s less spoiled; the modern world seems farther away. Where I live, in Camden on the coast of Maine, it’s postcard pretty, has a still working seafaring industry, an aquaculture industry that is thriving because of the pressures on wild seafood, a farm-to-table culinary scene, all of which is very authentic, self-sustaining, yet feels like an earlier time. I like Maine also because it’s comparatively undeveloped, with large unspoiled natural areas—it’s kind of the Auvergne of the USA—a lot of hiking, sailing, kayaking—which I love to do—available here. I also have a motorcycle, and Maine is a paradise of small roads weaving through beautiful country, thought the winter is long here so the riding season is limited.

MURIEL LOUVEAU

MURIEL LOUVEAU

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French Composer · Performing Artist · Singer

There are so many memories and locations I could map and tag. Something Allen Ginsberg said sums it up nicely, "You can’t escape the past in Paris. And yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly."

McCALL ART ADVISORY

McCALL ART ADVISORY

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I founded McCall Art Advisory in 2010 to provide focused consulting services for private clients interested in building carefully curated art collections. Projects include residences throughout the United States. Previously, I was the owner and director of Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, which provided the opportunity for leading-edge emerging artists to show their work and curate programming while also interacting with the community through neighborhood events and family-outreach programs.