Showlight Releases Third Set of VideosShowlight, the quadrennial conference on all things has release a third set of videos from its 2025 edition. This group focuses on cinematography. In Schrodinger's Dimmer: Controlling the Uncontrollable, Roger Simonsz BSC, talks about working with light outdoors. "It's very difficult in film to do the kind of slow lighting changes we do so easily in theatre," he says. Using examples from Engrenages/Spiral as well as Piper, we explore how to achieve control on location, in daylight, while cueing the sun, with the help of Schrodinger's dimmer." Simonz recently finished working on a new feature film in the south of France, Les Voix Colorees. In A Life in Cinema with Peter Macdonald, the multi-award-winning industry veteran, Peter Macdonald, offers an informal chat, sharing memories and anecdotes from his life in cinema spanning more than 70 years. Macdonald worked with director Sir Laurence Olivier on four films as camera operator and got his break on the 1958 film A Night to Remember with cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, with whom he collaborated for the next 25 years as his camera operator (Cabaret, Superman and Superman II, A Bridge Too Far, Cromwell, Excalibur, Murder on the Orient Express) and with David Watkin (Yentl). He evolved into a second unit director (Batman and Batman & Robin Empire Strikes Back, the first four Harry Potters, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Bourne Ultimatum), and then cinematographer, director, and producer. These videos are part of a series of periodic releases, with more Speaker presentation videos going live. Interested users can get a taste of this perennial lighting networking event by viewing the showreel and some of the speaker presentation videos from 2025 on the Showlight website: www.showlight.org/videos. 
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