Cinematographer and director Ava Berkofsky explains how she framed the intimate moments between the HBO comedy’s leading characters.
For me, framing is everything. When the balance of a frame is right for the moment, I just feel a sense of immense joy, both as a viewer and as a creator. On the show, I wanted the framing to add to the viewer’s experience without them realizing it and to share some of that immersive joy. The story themes are around people doing the hard work of growing up, relationships breaking apart and sometimes coming back together.
There is a seven-minute scene at a restaurant where Issa and Lawrence finally say everything they’ve wanted to say for three seasons. The writing and performances were beautiful, and I wanted to shoot it in a way that could, again, be pieced together to create its own sense of time. We shot it over two nights, and I believe there are about 16 different shots, each one for a different mood they pass through, but only one shot that actually moves.
Toward the end of the episode, there’s a fight where both Lawrence and Condola say the kinds of things you wish you could un-say. It was raw and intimate in an uncomfortable way, and the framing is handheld and rough by the standards of the show. At the end of the episode, however, there’s this beautiful moment where Lawrence and Condola finally connect.
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