Chayse Irvin on Shooting Blonde in Digital Black and White and God's Creatures in 35mm Color

This week, Netflix's Blonde and A24's God's Creatures head to streaming and theaters, respectively. The digitally-shot Blonde is a highly stylized look at the life of Marilyn Monroe, shifting aspect ratios and alternating between color and monochrome while employing extreme wide angle lenses, body cam mounts, infrared and more to expressionistically convey Monroe's perspective. God's Creatures is the antithesis--austere and somber, captured on 35mm, with an observational point of view distanced ...