What happens when you mix horror and an LSD-fueled awakening all in one film? A cinematographer’s dream.
Cinematographer Nick Matthews has always been fascinated by contrast and darkness, both in a literal and metaphysical sense, so when he read the script for Shudder’s latest film, Spoonful of Sugar, it was like it had been written just for him.
When he met the film’s director, Mercedes Bryce Morgan, Matthews quickly knew it was his dream job. Mercedes instantly welcomed everything from his fascination with fragmented compositions (he keeps a little bag of modifiers with him on every job—a mixture of odd pieces of glass, crystals, prisms, diopters, etc.) to putting Vaseline on the camera lens and his ideas about lens whacking to visually recreate the out of body experience of the characters.
The end result is a film that starts with more grounded painterly images that transforms into unhinged surrealism.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
