Mauro Herce receives the Goya for Best Cinematography for 'What Burns', shot in photochemistry

"Oliver does not conceive of something that is not in film and it seems great to me because I love the colors, contrasts, the images and the textures it gives," says the photo director.

The relationship of Mauro actor With the film director What burns, Oliver laxe, dates back many years when the latter studied cinema and audiovisual communication in Barcelona and were in the university library to keep long talks about cinema. This long relationship has been key so that in this third Lax work the understanding between them is completely.

Herce is very satisfied with "the reception that this production has had, which was already coming with several international awards but there was a lack of recognition here. The Gaudí of a few weeks ago and today's Goya are the definitive back for this film that we are very proud of."

The camera that was used for filming What burns It was one ARRI 16 mm. That, as Herce explains, "Oliver does not conceive of something that is not in film and I think it's great because I love the colors, contrasts, the images and textures it gives."

About the process of revealed and laboratory, the head of the photograph of what arms explains that “although there are few laboratories, it is a beautiful process because it is to return to what has been done throughout the history of photography and cinema. You do not see the final result until much later, and that waiting time until the images arrive is something very exciting and beautiful resolved.

Herce adds that "sometimes small mistakes are made that have not become serious, but we have encountered more than one scare. It is true that there are no longer many people who work in this way and the practice has been lost a bit. In general, I have not had greater concerns than in other projects, although they always take away all of them the dream because they overwhelm a bit when one imagines possible problems that they later do not appear.

One of the complications of this film in terms of photography was the theme of low lights and contrasts. "The fire itself is very contrasted and it is difficult to film because the flames are extremely bright and as soon as you move away half a meter of fire, the intensity lowers. In addition, in this case we only had the brigades of the brigades. We found a work method with three reference diaphragms depending on the amount of light that there were and depending on the chamber rotation it was compensated."

Mauro Herce not only takes care of the Directorate of Photography, but has his own filmography as director. Dead Slow Ahead It was his first feature film with which he won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno Film Festival of 2015, among many other recognitions. Lonely Rivers It is its second production, recently released in Locarno Film Festival 2019. He is preparing a new feature film, Slaughterhouse, which will be shot in Uruguay with much of the team of What burns.

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