In celebration of the series premiere of ALIEN: EARTH, we spoke with DP, director, and producer Dana Gonzales, ASC, about his long term relationship with Keslow Camera, charting his path and collaborations with series creator Noah Hawley.
"Even coming down to the look of it, all the [ALIEN] films have looked different, right? ALIENS looked different than ALIEN; it just did. Different cameramen, different DPs; they just looked different. The worlds they were in were different.
It wasn't like they made Alien, and they didn't make anything else in the franchise for the next 30 years. They literally did make more things with different feelings and different looks. So it was finding that world, but the look of it to me very much started with ALIEN and that filmic look. So then you're starting to look at vintage anamorphic lenses. I ended up using Hawks, from a few different series. I used V-Lites and Hawk V-Series. I probably had 25 lenses on Alien: Earth.
[Keslow has] supported me in every country that I've been in. The film business has changed globally. We wish it hadn’t gone as it did completely, but Keslow Camera has kept up. They now dominate Canada... But they don't stop there, right? So I'm going to Thailand, I'm going to London, I'm going wherever, and they can support me there.
...I don't think any rental house—I can say this honestly—no rental house has ever supported a show the size of Alien: Earth in any country, from America. Especially a TV show. But we did it 100% successfully. ...That just goes to what I'm saying: the support that we needed to create that. I feel like if I went with the local options, there's no way they could have supported us the way Keslow did."
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https://tinyurl.com/KeslowXDanaGonzalesASC
DPs | Dana Gonzales, ASC, David Franco, Bella Gonzales, Colin Watkinson, ASC, BSC
2nd Unit DPs | Matt Windon, Rapatchanun Cochaputsup
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