April 2023
More Than a Feeling: Daisy Jones & The Six
Unit stills by Lacey Terrell, SMPSP, courtesy of Amazon StudiosCamerawork that conveys the combustible nature of creative relationships is at the heart of Daisy Jones & The Six, a 10-part series from Amazon that follows the tumultuous rise and sudden collapse of a fictional 1970s supergroup. Cinematographers Checco Varese, ASC and Jeff Cutter were tasked with capturing the story, which is steeped in the musicians’ personal struggles and interpersonal conflicts — subject matter that lent itself to a close focus on emotions, even during live performances. For Varese, the project started as a theoretical conversation over coffee in Santa Fe, N.M. “We were shooting the last episode of Them,” he recalls, “and [producer] Mike Nelson started...more