Matthias Grunsky Discusses Using A 1970's Sony Tube Camera For Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess

Matthias Grunsky, the cinematographer for all of Andrew Bujalski's films, including his newest piece Computer Chess, made the above video, and also wrote a blog post detailing his work with the Sony AVC-3260, a 1970's era tube based video camera that was used to shoot the entire film. Both are interesting, especially for techies. A few years back, I had the idea to shoot my script, The Definers, on one of these cameras, as opposed to shooting it on Super 8, as I had originally planned. Realizing, now, that they had to have an electrical engineer come in and modify the cameras... I might just stick with Super 8, if I ever get to make it.

My Editing Reel

Editing Reel from Stewart Schuster on Vimeo.

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The first video here is a little experiment I did, that is sort of a preview of something I'm working on. The upcoming film, a "self portrait", will include 9 frames within the primary frame. That's all I'm going to say about it, but this is sort of a "rough draft" I made from some Super 8 I have shot over the last couple of years, a little bit of video, and a still from the movie "Quiet City", which I had been using as a background for my computer.

Multi-Frame Experiment from Stewart Schuster on Vimeo.

This film is just something I found by accident on Vimeo, and I thought it was cool. Enjoy -


landscape of a body from # on Vimeo.