Matthieu Tondeur’s style is inspired by great Russian cinematographers such as Vadim Yusov and Georgy Rerberg, Swedish Sven Nykvist or the filmmakers of the French New Wave.
Using mainly available natural light or complex indoor lighting. Soft low contrast render or contrasty light to follow the story.
These influences made him shoot mostly on vintage spherical and anamorphic glasses, as well on 16mm film when possible. This help him to give depth and sensibility to the image.
Shoot on
Digital Spherical
Digital Anamorphic
Regular and super16 film
Super8 film
Languages
French (native)
English (Fluent)
Chinese (Conversational)
Other skills
Film Still photography
Film Processing / Scanning
Set design Special DMX Lighting setup
matthieu @ orbitalswapfilms.com
Marseille/Aix (France) / Shanghai (China)