Redford was cast as the main name on the first film I ever worked on - Disney’s live action remake of Pete’s Dragon. It was a rather big deal to be onset with an actor known by many generations. Filming took us to a number of urban and remote locations, one of these was a Pine tree forest near Tokoroa. The forest famously had no cell phone reception and radio communication would cut out easily and not transmit well or at all in the dense forest.
Rob was staying in the nearest available suitable A-list actor accomodation which required a flight in on a Helicopter. In his first shoot day in the new location, the Helicopter’s GPS system failed. Unsure where to be without navigation the pilot was forced to land in a clearing which was the entrance to the forest. There was a bit of commotion of production wondering where they were as time was ticking.
Unbeknownst to Mr. Redford, he was about to encounter a humbling experience courtesy of overzealous security guard who drove his car right up to the landed chopper yelling “What the bloody hell are you landing here for? You can’t be here!”. A small war of attrition played out, and Redford, no doubt using his charm eventually managed to convince our security guard who possesed more gum than teeth that he was actually a part of the movie and needed to get to Unit Base. The security guard offered him a lift in his beat up early 90’s Nissan sedan. The interior dank with cigarette smoke, butts littered everywhere other than the ashtray Mr. Redford sat with Monster energy and beer cans rolling around beneath his feet for the bumpy gravel 20 minute car ride to Unit Base and chatted the whole way - not exactly the Land Rover experience.
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Ballardian Ooze
An idealist middle-class utopia increasingly occupied by the bourgeois and the boring. It winds and whisks in a way that the unworthy are deterred from contact with the residents themselves. Discrete doors and staircases steeped in confusion bounce the clear outsiders. Routes take one from higher to low levels, soft to hard space and water. Long slabs and enormous columns and glass windows of utility rooms offer only a limited aquarium-like glimpse of drying underwear. The Barbican has a softness and texture that combined with its rusticated feel and calming waters somehow always gave me a sense of unease - a duality of delight in how housing could be for living in the inner city and a mourning of thoughtless, soulless modernity that now plagues high rise apartment living across the world.
BTS I shot of the lovely @annadsouzaa being photographed by @benjamindmoxham for @prm_agency
First time shooting with my Sony FX6!
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![Redford was cast as the main name on the first film I ever worked on - Disney’s live action remake of Pete’s Dragon. It was a rather big deal to be onset with an actor known by many generations. Filming took us to a number of urban and remote locations, one of these was a Pine tree forest near Tokoroa. The forest famously had no cell phone reception and radio communication would cut out easily and not transmit well or at all in the dense forest.Rob was staying in the nearest available suitable A-list actor accomodation which required a flight in on a Helicopter. In his first shoot day in the new location, the Helicopter’s GPS system failed. Unsure where to be without navigation the pilot was forced to land in a clearing which was the entrance to the forest. There was a bit of commotion of production wondering where they were as time was ticking.Unbeknownst to Mr. Redford, he was about to encounter a humbling experience courtesy of overzealous security guard who drove his car right up to the landed chopper yelling “What the bloody hell are you landing here for? You can’t be here!”. A small war of attrition played out, and Redford, no doubt using his charm eventually managed to convince our security guard who possesed more gum than teeth that he was actually a part of the movie and needed to get to Unit Base. The security guard offered him a lift in his beat up early 90’s Nissan sedan. The interior dank with cigarette smoke, butts littered everywhere other than the ashtray Mr. Redford sat with Monster energy and beer cans rolling around beneath his feet for the bumpy gravel 20 minute car ride to Unit Base and chatted the whole way - not exactly the Land Rover experience.[Story continues in the comments]](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6721432029334313602848_0_a102c0c3df9c667cdd39545aac5bd5aa.jpg?o=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&h=758d56e3044d6040b94273f15db71a18)
