It's not often we ever get to watch documentaries that profile
cinematographers. They are an important part of cinema, obviously enough, and they are monumental artists in their own right. Masters of light and shadow. But when it comes to cinema profiles and filmmaking docs, they're usually about directors, writers, actors, sometimes even producers, and other craftspeople. Finally we have a doc about a cinematographer and it's a good one.
Robert Richardson: The White Devil is a documentary made by Czech filmmaker / cinematographer
Jana Hojdova and it premiered at the 2026 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Jana explained in the intro that she has been coming to the fest since she was a teenager it's a dream come true to premiere this film
at KVIFF. The entire reason this doc exists is because one day Jana sent an email trying to get in touch with American cinematographer
Robert Richardson for a masters thesis she was working on while studying at the University of Prague. The only other reason this doc exists is because when she went out to meet him, they both ended up stuck together inside his house on Cape Cod in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. She spent the next 3 months digging through his archives and interviewing him while they both had nothing else to do in 2020. The result is this fascinating film that any & every cinema geek must watch. //
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