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3. The Entire Movie - Presence
Steven Soderbergh has always been keen to experiment and try making movies in a way entirely unlike how Hollywood tells veteran filmmakers they should.
Take his 2018 horror film Unsane, which he shot entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus with a skeleton crew, to positive reviews.
And with his new supernatural thriller-drama Presence, Soderbergh once again decided to flout industry expectations, shying away from elaborate camera rigs and an extensive crew.
The film, which takes place inside a family's home as they encounter paranormal phenomena, was filmed entirely by Soderbergh himself, acting as both cinematographer and camera operator.
More to the point, he ditched a traditional, bulky cinema camera in favour of the consumer-grade Sony Alpha 9 III paired with a single 14mm lens, which was mounted to a DJI Ronin gimbal - another piece of extremely affordable equipment the average camera enthusiast might well own.
To dampen the sound of his own movements while operating the gimbal, Soderbergh also wore martial arts slippers of all things.
That a genre film which received a major theatrical release was produced with technology readily available off the shelf is absolutely wild, and yet, considering the free-floating nature of the film's ghostly POV, it would've been supremely more challenging to move a heavy cinema camera around the tight spaces of the house.