Full circle moments.
Huge congratulations to Michael B. Jordan on winning the Oscar for Best Actor last night for Sinners. Well deserved.
I keep thinking back to 2013, when I had the chance to film him for The New York Times Magazine’s Making a Scene series, directed by Janusz Kaminski. Even then, there was something undeniable — focus, presence, a quiet intensity that didn’t need to announce itself.
This 48-second piece is a small fragment from that time.
A moment that stayed with me.
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MEET THE TEAM
Alexander Haessner, Director of Photography
Alexander is an Emmy-recognized cinematographer whose work spans narrative films, documentaries, and global brand campaigns. Known for his cinematic yet intimate visual style, he brings an emotionally grounded, human-first approach to storytelling.
On Pacific Pilgrimage, Alexander is focused on creating immersive, authentic imagery that honors the film’s spiritual and emotional journey.
Lando Norris — 2025 World Drivers’ Champion.
Filmed this portrait with him in Las Vegas, and it feels even more iconic now.
Congratulations, Lando!
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Ok… this one is a hard pill to swallow.
Dedo, my very first employer in the motion picture world, passed away two days ago.
Dedo was a true visionary — a force — who earned two Technical Achievement Awards (Oscars) for his iconic Dedolight. When I started working at Dedo Weigert Film in 1998, I didn’t even know what a mentor was supposed to be… but looking back now, I realize that Dedo embodied that role for me completely.
He created something he’d call “Sunday School”, where all Praktikanten (interns) were invited to learn the fundamentals of cinematography and filmmaking: mired shift, loading film, anti-halation backing, pulling focus, calibrating lenses — everything. It was an insane gift of knowledge, delivered in his very particular, brilliant, sometimes cryptic way.
Every year he conducted a Roadshow across the major cities of Germany, where we hit the road and showcased the cutting-edge tools he distributed at the time: Lightning Strikes, Lowell, Cooke, KinoFlo, Transvideo, Chimera, Unilux, Éclair, Aaton, PhotoSonics, and of course, the Dedolight.
In the early 2000s, this was the frontier of experimental and commercial filmmaking — specialty equipment that nobody else had access to in this way.
I was trained as a high-speed technician on the legendary PhotoSonics cameras. When the PhotoSonics 4ER was modified to shoot 4-perf 35mm film, the advertising world went wild. Suddenly everyone wanted this machine — and Dedo trained me to become one of the very few high-speed technicians in the world who could operate it.
There were only 17 of those cameras in existence, each running 360 FPS on a claw movement — a true masterpiece of engineering.
Dedo was not an easy person — genius rarely is.
He could be distant, hard to approach, he often spoke in riddles, and many times I had no idea what he had just told me. But beneath his eccentricity was a deep desire to support, educate, and elevate the filmmaking world. He dedicated his life to innovation and to the craft.
And honestly there’s no reason to be sad. We should celebrate him.
He was a rock star, fully devoted to the thing he loved until the end
He shaped me
He shaped so many of us
Another legend gone
