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Greg Fisher & Robbie Ryan Senior colourist Greg Fisher and DOP Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC discuss working together – and for Yorgos Lanthimos DYNAMIC DUOS INTERVIEW KATIE KASPERSON IMAGES ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES

DEFINITION: How did you two first meet, and what projects have you since worked on together? GREG FISHER: The first was Sally Potter’s film The Roads Not Taken . ROBBIE RYAN: We shot that in 2019, pre-pandemic. Then, the next time we worked together was on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things , which was great fun. We shot that one in 2021, but it wasn’t graded until the end of 2023. There were a lot of VFX on Poor Things , so they spent a lot of time completing that, and we shot another film called Kinds of

Kindness in the meantime, which Greg also graded. DEF: What do you like about working with one another? RR: Greg’s a great listener and has a great sensibility. Generally, we’re on the same page with what we want to try and achieve. That’s a key part of any good working relationship – that you’re not fighting against each other, and everybody knows where it needs to go. It makes life a little bit more relaxed. Whatever we’ve done, Greg can get it to where we’d like it to go in the final grade.

He’s brilliant, so there’s that as well. He’s a fastidious sort of technician, always knowing technical bits, whereas I’m not so good at that myself. DEF: Greg, can you talk about your grading process?

GF: When I started, I was always working on film. It’s my preferred

medium to be grading.

RR: What a lot of people do now is shooting on film as a capture

medium, but not going through the photochemical process. Christopher

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