ABSTRACT
Tom Hurwitz is an American cinematographer and the son of Leo Hurwitz mentioned in Chapter 2. He has been part of a wave of American film-makers who, since the 1960s, have documented people and events around the world and, through their filming, shown us places and people we, ourselves, have never physically met. The physicality of filming is very present with Tom who likens his camera-work to a dance with the subject. He emphasises throughout how he experiences filming as a chess game involving logic and intuition, improvisation and calculation. Tom's interview vividly introduces the cinematographer's perspective which becomes focussed — and extended — in the following chapter ‘What makes movies work.’
