Cinematographer Dick Pope has collaborated with iconic director Mike Leigh for over two decades and set out to apply their unique approach to filming to the story of the 1819 British massacre of demonstrators known to history as Peterloo.
A study of workers, factory owners, the clergy and the crown, whose conflicting interests build to a brutal bloodbath on St.
Peter’s Field in Manchester, the film represented the greatest technical challenge Pope has faced, he says.Competing for the Golden Frog at EnergaCamerimage and shot at historic locations, the production was built up from a focus on actors and performances as its foundation, says Pope, an approach he and Leigh have used throughout their collaboration on films including “Naked,” “Vera Drake” and “Mr.
Turner.”You’ve been on juries here at EnergaCamerimage more than once.
What do you notice in different choices younger cinematographers are making?I do find in
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