Features - Sunday, May 9, 2010 18:17

Belly Of The Beast

A war movie with a difference, Lebanon is set entirely within the dirty confines of a tank.

Here, DoP Giora Bejach and director Samuel Maoz reveal how they overcame the challenges of shooting in their intense location.

If there’s one phrase that expresses the aesthetic of Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon, a film set entirely inside a tank, it is ‘bleed into black’. A term coined by Maoz during one of his early conversations with his cinematographer Giora Bejach, it perfectly summarises the task in hand: to visually conjure the sticky, sweaty feeling of being in such a hellish location. Continue…