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Oscars 2021: My Octopus Teacher defies wildlife documentary constructs to become an impossibly immersive romance


Oscars 2021: My Octopus Teacher defies wildlife documentary constructs to become an impossibly immersive romance
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Oscars 2021: My Octopus Teacher defies wildlife documentary constructs to become an impossibly immersive romance
“I hadn’t been a person that was overly sentimental towards animals before,” says documentary filmmaker and naturalist Craig Foster midway through 
My Octopus Teacher. It is an odd admission to hear from the man who is the co-creator and subject of one of the most transformative pieces of wildlife documentary filmmaking of 2020 (the other being Victor Kosakovskiy’s black-and-white spectacle
Gunda).
Yet, it is also an aptly sincere confession of a collective human blindspot – Foster is not the only one who has been historically apathetic toward animals or the ecosystems that house them. ....

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'My Octopus Teacher' Cinematographer on Capturing the Bond Between a Filmmaker and an Octopus


Cinematographer Roger Horrocks shooting in the waters of South Africa’s False Bay.
Underwater DP Roger Horrocks reflects on the moving experience of filming Craig Foster and a sensitive cephalopod in the Oscar-nominated documentary.
In the Oscar-nominated documentary
My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster explores the remarkable relationship that he forms with an octopus while free diving in an underwater kelp forest in South Africa s False Bay. But he wasn t the only one to be moved by this unlikely bond between man and cephalopod: Foster s friend and cinematographer Roger Horrocks found the experience to be profoundly moving.
Obviously, there was a great deal of trust [from the octopus] with Craig, the DP says. I was never there without Craig, so my instinct was that this trust was transferred onto me. That obviously enabled us to get the material, because some would never come out of their holes. I mean, she was quite phenomenal in that regard. ....

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